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050	0	0	_aUA10.5 _b.C644 2019
082	0	4	_a355.03 _223
245	0	0	_aComparative grand strategy : _ba framework and cases / _cedited by Thierry Balzacq, Peter Dombrowski, Simon Reich.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOxford, United Kingdom ; _aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c2019.
300			_axiii, 352 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-338) and index.
520			_aThis book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework. The volume responds to three key problems common to both academia and policymaking. First, the literature on the concept of grand strategy generally focuses on the United States, offering no framework for comparative analysis. Indeed, many proponents of US grand strategy suggest that the concept can only be applied, at most, to a very few great powers such as China and Russia. Second, characteristically it remains prescriptive rather than explanatory, ignoring the central conundrum of why differing countries respond in contrasting ways to similar pressures. Third, it often understates the significance of domestic politics and policymaking in the formulation of grand strategies - emphasizing mainly systemic pressures. This book addresses these problems. It seeks to analyze and explain grand strategies through the intersection of domestic and international politics in ten countries grouped distinctively as great powers (The G5), regional powers (Brazil and India) and pivotal powers hostile to each other who are able to destabilize the global system (Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia). The book thus employs a comparative framework that describes and explains why and how domestic actors and mechanisms, coupled with external pressures, create specific national strategies. Overall, the book aims to fashion a valid, cross-contextual framework for an emerging research program on grand strategic analysis.
650		0	_aNational security.
650		0	_aNational security _vCase studies.
650		0	_aStrategy.
650		0	_aStrategy _vCase studies.
650		7	_aNational security. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01033711
655		7	_aCross-cultural studies. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423769
700	1		_aBalzacq, Thierry, _eeditor.
700	1		_aDombrowski, Peter J., _d1963- _eeditor.
700	1		_aReich, Simon, _d1959- _eeditor.
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