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Title Avoiding trivia [electronic resource] : the role of strategic planning in American foreign policy / Daniel W. Drezner, editor.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2009.

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Description viii, 190 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Introduction -- The challenging future of strategic planning in foreign policy / Daniel W. Drezner -- pt. 2. Grand strategy and policy planning -- Planning for policy planning / Richard N. Haass -- A road map for American leadership in a changing world / David F. Gordon and Daniel Twining -- A "return to normalcy"? : the future of America's internationalism / Jeffrey W. Legro -- pt. 3. Reforming strategic planning -- An integrative executive branch strategy for policy planning / Bruce W. Jentleson -- Strengthening U.S. strategic planning / Aaron L. Friedberg -- A strategic planning cell on national security at the White House / Peter Feaver and William Inboden -- pt. 4. Limits and opportunities for strategic planning -- Why the best is not yet to come in policy planning / Amy B. Zegart -- Learning the right lessons from the 1940s / Thomas Wright -- Foreign policy planning through a private sector lens / Andrew P.N. Erdmann -- The garbage can framework for locating policy planning / Stephen D. Krasner.
Summary "Critically assesses the past, future, and potential future role and impact of long-term strategic planning in foreign policy. Key figures from past decades of foreign policy and planning provide authoritative insight on the difficulties and importance of thinking and acting in a coherent way for the long term"--Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Strategic planning -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Planning.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Drezner, Daniel W.
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ISBN 9780815703068 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815703066 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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