Layne - Fall 2012 - Bush School of Government and Public Service

Michael Geyer, “German Strategy in the Age of Machine Warfare, 1914-1945, in Peter Paret and
Gordon A. Craig, eds., Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, pp.
527-597.
Weeks 9, 10 & 11 (22, 29 October, 5 November)
Week 12 (12 November)
The Anglo-German Rivarly: Economics, Ideology, Innenpolitik and the Balance of Power
Paul Kennedy, The Rise of the Anglo-German Antagonism
The Failure of Grand Strategy
Jack Snyder, The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decisionmaking and the Disasters of 1914,
pp. 15-40.
Stephen Van Evera, “The Cult of the Offensive and the Origins of the First World War,”
International Security, 9:1 (Summer 1984), pp. 58-107.
Daniel A. Baugh, "British Strategy During the First World War in the Context of Four Centuries:
Blue-Water versus Continental Commitment," in Daniel M. Masterson, ed., Naval History: The
Sixth Symposium of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Richard Hart Sinnreich, “About Turn: British Strategic Transformation from Salisbury to Grey,”
in Murray, Sinnreich, and Lacey, The Shaping of Strategy, pp. 111-146.
Week 13 (19 November )
British Grand Strategy Between the World Wars
Christopher Layne, “Security Studies and the Use of History: Neville Chamberlain’s Grand
Strategy Revisited,” Security Studies, 17:3 (July 2008), pp. 397-437.
Norrin Ripsman and Jack S. Levy, “ Wishful Thinking or Buying Time: The Logic of British
Appeasement in the 1930s,” International Security, 33:2 (Fall 2008), pp. 148-181.
Williamson Murray, “British Grand Strategy, 1933-1942,” in Murray, Sinnreich, and Lacey, The
Shaping of Strategy, pp. 147-181.
Weeks 13 and 14
1. A Shifting Balance of Power?
Grand Strategy and the Emerging Sino-American Relationship
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