000			02204nam a22003257a 4500
001			sulb-eb0016456
003			BD-SySUS
005			20160405140610.0
008			101011s2011||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d
020			_a9780511974182 (ebook)
020			_z9780521761260 (hardback)
020			_z9780521156332 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP _dBD-SySUS.
050	0	0	_aD217 _b.S44 2011
082	0	0	_a327.1 _222
245	0	4	_aThe Shaping of Grand Strategy : _bPolicy, Diplomacy, and War / _cedited by Williamson Murray, Richard Hart Sinnreich, James Lacey.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011.
300			_a1 online resource (294 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aWithin a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.
700	1		_aMurray, Williamson, _eeditor.
700	1		_aSinnreich, Richard Hart, _eeditor.
700	1		_aLacey, James, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521761260
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511974182
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37894 _d37894