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Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.
History, with its insights, analo...
Brief description: Hal Brands is a Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. His other books include What Good Is Grand Strategy? and Making the Unipolar Moment. He has served in the Pentagon as a special assistant to the secretary of defense for strategic planning.
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Brands and Suri have assembled a fine collection of contributions that should attract historians and policy-makers alike, but it could also be of great interest to other professionals such as journalists and activists. Hopefully this book will inspire more of this kind of work and an increasingly fruitful dialogue between historians and practitioners.--International Affairs