Grand Strategies Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Name: Grand Strategies Literature, Statecraft, and World Order
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ISBN: 9780300171334

ISBN-10: 0300171331

ISBN-13: 9780300171334

Edition: 2011

Authors: Charles Hill

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"The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm," writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. "It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out." A distinguished lifelong diplomat and educator, Hill aims to revive the ancient tradition of statecraft as practiced by humane and broadly educated men and women. Through lucid and compelling discussions of classic literary works from Homer to Rushdie,Grand Strategiesrepresents a merger of literature and international relations, inspired by the conviction that "a grand strategist . . . needs to be immersed in classic texts from Sun Tzu to Thucydides to…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/24/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.09" wide x 9.21" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Works Discussed in This Book


Prologue: Books of the Red Chamber



Classical Orders



Creative Disorder



Sources of Modern World Order



What Kind of State?



Enlightenment: Critique of Diplomacy, State, and System



America: A New Idea



Disorder and War



The Imported State



The Writer and the State


Epilogue: Talleyrand and Everything Else


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index