The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance Between the World Wars

by Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Norrin M. Ripsman, Steven E. Lobell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107660114
• ISBN13: 9781107660113
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"