{"product_id":"reluctant-crusaders-9780691136257","title":"Reluctant Crusaders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines patterns of change and continuity in American foreign policy strategy by looking at four major turning points: the periods following World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 \"A particularly valuable book. Utilizing a large body of sources, Dueck lucidly examines a core issue of American foreign policy, namely, the essential factors that determine its 'grand strategy.'... His arguments are persuasive and often unique... Essential.\"--Choice \"Realists have long lamented the periodic tendency of the United States to embark upon ideological crusades abroad. Dueck's Reluctant Crusaders goes some way in providing a causal explanation for such anomalous, and at times, self-defeating, strategic behavior.\"--Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Perspectives on Politics \"Colin Dueck's Reluctant Crusaders is a well-researched, cogently argued explanation of how America's internal political characteristics have shaped its strategy toward the world...[It] is a welcome starting point for understanding how America's history and beliefs have enforced a surprising continuity in U.S. foreign policy, even as international threats and conditions have changed dramatically.\"--Todd R. Lowery, Claremont Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  INTRODUCTION: Change and Continuity in American Grand Strategy 1  CHAPTER ONE: Power, Culture, and Grand Strategy 9  CHAPTER TWO: Strategic Culture and Strategic Adjustment in the United States 21  CHAPTER THREE: The Lost Alliance: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1918-1921 44  CHAPTER FOUR: Conceiving Containment: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1945-1951 82  CHAPTER FIVE: Hegemony on the Cheap: Ideas and Alternatives in American Grand Strategy, 1992-2000 114  CONCLUSION: The American Strategic Dilemma 147  Notes 173  Index 215","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403759788375,"sku":"9780691136257","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691136257.jpg?v=1730484457","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reluctant-crusaders-9780691136257","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}