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The Power of the Past

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Power of the Past

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About the book

Leading scholars and policymakers explore how history influences foreign policy and offer insights on how the study of the past can more usefully serve the present.History, with its insights, analogies, and narratives, is central to the ways that the United States interacts with the world. Historians and policymakers, however, rarely engage one another as effectively or fruitfully as they might. This book bridges that divide, bringing together leading scholars and policymakers to address the ess...Show more

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9780815727125

Publisher

Brookings Institution

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2015

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1

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The Power of the Past

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Paperback

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