Applied History and Contemporary Policymaking

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements


1. Introduction
Robert Crowcroft

2. For All Time: History, Statesmanship, and the Primacy of Experience
Robert Crowcroft

3. The Whig Way of War: the Origins of Anglo-American Strategy-Making
Giselle Donnelly

4. Carthage Can Now Defeat Rome: Political Order, Seaborne Commerce, and the Projection of Power in Barbon and Montesquieu
Paul A. Rahe

5. Globalisation and World Order: Economic Integration and the Implications for Global Power, 1846-1914 and 1989-2021
Graeme Thompson

6. Applying History to an Anomalous Historical Case: the Rise of China
Kori Schake

7. Nation-Building as Applied History: Lessons from the United States in Afghanistan
Jeremi Suri

8. Applied History and Contingency Planning: Whitehall and the British War Book, c. 1911-1939
Francesca Morphakis

9. "Longhaired Theoreticians" and Long-Term Thinkers: the Uses of History within the British Foreign Office during the Second World War
Andrew Ehrhardt

10. Problems Left Over from History: British Officials and Three Diplomatic Challenges
Peter Ricketts

11. Clio's Role in Construing the US Constitution
Philip Bobbitt

12. Learning from Military History
Jeremy Black

13. Beware of War: Lessons from the Past
Margaret MacMillan

14. Serving History Hot: on Contemporary History
Charlie Laderman

15. When Reason Replaces Wisdom: How the Neglect of History and Statesmanship has Diminished Political Science
Steven F. Hayward

Bibliography
Index