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The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars - Softcover

 
9781107660113: The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1107660114 ISBN 13: 9781107660113
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The years between the world wars represent an era of broken balances: the retreat of the United States from global geopolitics, the weakening of Great Britain and France, Russian isolation following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the resurgence of German power in Europe, and the rise of Japan in East Asia. All these factors complicated great-power politics. This book brings together historians and political scientists to revisit the conventional wisdom on the grand strategies pursued between the world wars, drawing on theoretical innovations and new primary sources. The contributors suggest that all the great powers pursued policies that, while in retrospect suboptimal, represented conscious, rational attempts to secure their national interests under conditions of extreme uncertainty and intense domestic and international political, economic, and strategic constraints.

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About the Authors

Professor Jeffrey Taliaferro is the author of Balancing Risks: Great Power Intervention in the Periphery (2004), for which he received the American Political Science Association's Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Award for the Best Book in International History and Politics. His articles have appeared in the journals International Security, Security Studies and Political Psychology, and two edited volumes. He is co-editor (and a contributor), along with Steven E. Lobell and Norrin P. Ripsman, of Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy (Cambridge, 2009).

Norrin M. Ripsman is Professor of Political Science at Concordia University.

Steven E. Lobell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107660114
ISBN 13 
9781107660113
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
360
Editor
Taliaferro Jeffrey W., Ripsman Norrin M., Lobell Steven E.