Applied History and Contemporary Policymaking

Robert Crowcroft is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh, UK

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