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Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy

Name: Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781421423777
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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421423777

How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy

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By Ionut Popescu
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January 14, 2018
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 248

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Is following a coherent grand strategy the key to achieving successful outcomes in American foreign policy? For many experts in academia and Washington, the answer is yes. Policymakers usually face criticism when they take incremental actions based on short-term considerations. But could such actions actually converge into a successful emergent strategy over time?

Ionut Popescu conclusively shows that in some cases an emergent learning model leads to better overall strategic performance than a long-term strategic plan or framework. Popescu argues that it is time to rethink the origins of some of the most important successes and failures of America's tenure as a global superpower after World War II. Presenting empirical data culled from archival research and interviews with higher-ups, Popescu covers eight US presidential administrations, ranging from Truman to Obama, to demonstrate that senior policymakers should be skeptical of the idea that formulating and implementing a long-term grand strategy is the road to a successful foreign policy legacy.

Instead, the book asserts, leaders should prioritize learning from the almost unavoidable mistakes they will make early in their careers and adapting their plans to unanticipated events and changes in the international environment. Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy thus offers both scholars and practitioners of foreign policy an original theoretical framework to explain strategic success.

Preface
1. Grand Strategy, Emergent Strategy, and Foreign Policy Success
2. George Kennan, Containment, and the Beginning of the Cold War
3. Globalizing Containment
4. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Project Solarium, and the New Look
5. Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Détente
6. Ronald Reagan and the End of the Cold War
7. George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and the PostCold War Era
8. George W. Bush and the War on Terror
9. Shape or Adapt?
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Index

""Examining eight US presidential administrations, Popescu considers whether the criticism of policymakers who deviate from grand strategy in the service of short-term considerations is warranted. According to the author, such deviations may develop into a new strategy over time, particularly if leaders focus on learning from their mistakes.""

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