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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 12
2. The Future of Sino-American Relations 2. Lessons of the Past? Read the following, all of which will be on hard copy reserve at the PESL: Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008). Robert Kagan, The World America Made (New York: Knopf, 2012) Robert Lieber, Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States is Not Destined to Decline Cambridge University Press, 2012) Edward Luce, Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012). Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a new Global Order (New York: Penguin Press, 2009). G. John Ikenberry, Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). - and (on e-reserve) - Michael Beckley, “China’s Century: Why America’s Edge Will Endure, International Security, 36:3 (Winter 2011/2012), pp. 41-78. SUGGESTED READINGS - FYI ONLY Strategic Culture Alastair Ian Johnson, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (1995). Elizabeth Keir, Imagining War: French and British Military Doctrine Between the Wars (1997). Stephen Peter Rosen, Societies and Military Power: India and its Armies (1996). Types of Grand Strategies Innis Claude, Power and International Relations (1962), pp. 3-93. Michael W. Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (1997), Chapter 5. 13
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