Applied History and Contemporary Policymaking: School of Statecraft

Half Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nContents\nContributors\nAcknowledgements\nChapter 1: Introduction\nChapter 2: For all time: History, statesmanship and the primacy of experience\nChapter 3: The Whig way of war: The origins of Anglo-American strategy-making\nChapter 4: Carthage can now defeat Rome: Political order, seaborne commerce and the projection of power in Barbon and Montesquieu\nChapter 5: Globalization and world order: Economic integration and the implications for global power, 1846–1914 and 1989–2021\nChapter 6: Applying history to an anomalous historical case: The rise of China\nChapter 7: Nation-Building as Applied History: Lessons from the United States in Afghanistan\nChapter 8: Applied history and contingency planning: Whitehall and the British War Book, c. 1911–39\nChapter 9: ‘Longhaired theoreticians’ and long-term thinkers: The use of history within the British Foreign Office during the Second World War\nChapter 10: Problems left over from history: British officials and three diplomatic challenges\nChapter 11: Clio’s role in construing the US Constitution\nChapter 12: Learning from military history\nChapter 13: Beware of war: Lessons from the past\nChapter 14: Serving history hot: On contemporary history\nChapter 15: When reason replaces wisdom: How the neglect of history and statesmanship has diminished political science\nSelect Bibliography\nIndex