Within a variety of historical contexts; The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely; how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful; grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all; it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment; which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic; political; or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting; evolving; and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I enjoyed it.By Jon DoegeyWell written;I enjoyed it.I0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy William D HowardAided my research10 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Towards an increased understanding of Africans in the New WorldBy Reginald Haleyapparently this book was written for academicians and collegiate students of history; aka; like a text book; it contains well documented readings from a variety of sources created during the time in which Heywood writes. it provides great anthropological analysis of the locations in which Central Africans were kidnapped; how they were dispersed throughout South American; Central America and the Carribean. i bought and read the book out of an African American's desire to understand the development of my culture and surviving Africanisms. While this book answered some of my questions it increased my knowledge of "New World" Africans immensely. i recommend it.
