The challenge of grand strategy the great powers and the broken balance between the world wars

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 Eas...

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Weitere Verfasser: Taliaferro, Jeffrey W. (HerausgeberIn), Ripsman, Norrin M. (HerausgeberIn), Lobell, Steven E. 1964- (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
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  • Introduction: grand strategy between the World Wars Steven E. Lobell, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, and Norrin M. Ripsman Deterrence, coercion, and enmeshment: French grand strategy and the German problem after World War I Peter Jackson The legacy of coercive peace building: the Locarno treaty, Anglo-French grand strategy, and the 1936 Rhineland crisis Scott A. Silverstone The League of Nations and grand strategy: a contradiction in terms? Andrew Webster Economic interdependence and the grand strategies of Germany and Japan, 1925-1941 Dale C. Copeland Britain's grand strategy during the 1930s: from balance of power to components of power Steven E. Lobell British grand strategy and the rise of Germany, 1933-1936 Norrin M. Ripsman and Jack S. Levy Strategy of innocence or provocation? The Roosevelt administration's road to World War II Jeffrey W. Taliaferro The rising sun was no jackal: Japanese grand strategy, the Tripartite pact, and alliance formation theory Tsuyoshi Kawasaki Powers of division: from the anti-Comintern to the Nazi-Soviet and Japanese-Soviet Pacts, 1936-1941 Timothy W. Crawford Soviet grand strategy in the interwar years: ideology as realpolitik Mark L. Haas Conclusions: rethinking interwar grand strategies David M. Edelstein