American Grand Strategy and National Security: The Dilemmas of Primacy and Decline from the Founding to Trump

by Michael Clarke and Michael E. Clarke

Book Overview

This book is focused on explaining the grand strategic behavior of the United States from the Founding of the Republic to the Trump administration. To do so it employs a neoclassical realist framework to argue that while systemic change explains the broad evolution of US grand strategy, the precise shape and content of the grand strategies pursued has been conditioned by domestic political culture and interests. The book argues that distinct political...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030301745
• ISBN13: 9783030301743
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"