LEADER 03891nam 22005171 450 001 9910798677403321 005 19940826080404.2 010 $a1-4742-9089-2 010 $a1-4742-9088-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781474290890 035 $a(CKB)3710000000840839 035 $a(EBL)4659882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4659882 035 $a(OCoLC)1090431647 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09262723 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000840839 100 $a20180205d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aHistory, the White House, and the Kremlin $estatesmen as historians /$fedited by Michael Graham Fry 210 1$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 225 0 $aHistory and politics in the 20th century: Bloomsbury Academic collections 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4742-9087-6 311 $a0-86187-129-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1.Introduction / Michael Fry -- 2.United States policy and the Palestine problem: historical dimensions and the creation of an 'alternative narrative' / Rashid Khalidi -- 3.The boundaries of rational calculation in Soviet policy towards Japan / Jonathan Haslam -- 4.The Cuban Missile Crisis twenty-five years later: the learning continues / Dwain Mefford -- 5.The Soviet General Staff: an institution's response to change / Condoleezza Rice -- 6.British and American hegemony compared: lessons for the current era of decline / David Lake -- 7.Being a borrower: the re-emergence of the United States as a debtor nation / Diane Kunz -- 8.The United States and inter-war money and finance: lessons for Japan's future from America's past / Jeffry Frieden -- 9.The politics of empire: a theory with an application to the Soviet case / Jack Snyder -- 10.The power of historical analogies: Soviet interventions in Eastern Europe and US interventions in Central America / Dwain Mefford -- 11.Learning and reasoning by analogy / Alex Hybel -- 12.Conclusion / Alan Henrikson. 330 $a"Historical knowledge in its various forms - learned, observed and experienced - is one of the principal intellectual resources available to politicians and the officials who serve them. These policy communities habitually, though sometimes naively, inexpertly and misleadingly, use history in the crafting of policy. In this book the question of whether politicians use history wisely and judiciously is posed about those who inhabit the Kremlin as well as the White House. The question has several dimensions which are examined here in a series of original essays. Is historically based reasoning rational? How influential is historical knowledge in deliberations over policy? And does historically based reasoning lead to sound decisions about future policy? The authors range over a wide area of economic and political issues - Palestine, Soviet policy, British and United States hegemonies and comparable predicaments, United States acceptance of its international responsibilities, Soviet expansionism, the Cuban Missile Crisis, US policy towards Latin America and the historical content of President Bush Sr.'s response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aHistory and Politics in the 20th Century: Bloomsbury Academic 606 $aStatesmen$zUnited States 606 $2Political science & theory 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 615 0$aStatesmen 676 $a327.73 702 $aFry$b Michael G. 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798677403321 996 $aHistory, the White House, and the Kremlin$93685100 997 $aUNINA