The Politics of Strategic Adjustment

Download or read book The Politics of Strategic Adjustment written by Peter Trubowitz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how the US chooses its security policies, showing that decisions about grand strategy are critically shaped by aspects of domestic politics such as political ideologies and state structure. Some topics include cultural transformation and strategic adjustment in the 1890s, the politics of American naval expansion, and defining a new role for the naval forces in the post-Cold War world. Of interest to policymakers and scholars of international affairs. Material originated at conferences held in 1994 and 1995. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR