Description: Christopher Hemmer offers a model for how U.S. decision makers use the lessons of history to diagnose and make policy choices.
Brief description: Christopher Hemmer is Assistant Professor of International Security Studies, U.S. Air War College.
Review Quotes:
"...useful and incisive..." -- CHOICE
"Hemmer demonstrates that his theoretical framework can indeed get us beyond such unhelpful generalizations as 'history is a grab bag from which policy makers select analogies to support choices arrived at for quite different reasons.' His analysis is nuanced and he concludes that historical analogies in fact played a somewhat different role in the two cases that he examined. There is little doubt that he has made a significant contribution." -- Ole R. Holsti, author of Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy