CIAO DATE: 3/99

The Politics of Strategic Adjustment
Ideas, Institutions, and Interests

Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, and Edward Rhodes

Columbia University Press

1999

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Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction

1. Explaining American Strategic Adjustment
   Peter Trubowitz, University of Texas at Austin and Edward Rhodes, Rutgers University

Part II: The Role of Ideas and Culture

2. Constructing Power: Cultural Transformation and Strategic Adjustment in the 1890s
   Edward Rhodes, Rutgers University

3. Institutionalizing a Political Idea: Navalism and the Emergence of American Sea Power
   Mark Shulman, Columbia University

Part III: Politics and the Electoral Connection

4. Geography and Strategy: The Politics of American Naval Expansion
   Peter Trubowitz, University of Texas at Austin

5. Strategic Adjustment and the U.S. Navy: the Spanish-American War, the Yellow Press, and the 1990s
   Bartholomew H. Sparrow, University of Texas at Austin

6. The Social Foundations of Strategic Adjustment
   Miroslav Nincic, University of California at Davis and Roger Rose, Benedictine University and Gerard Gorski, University of California at Davis

Part IV: The Institutional Dimension

7. Technological Change and the New Calculus of War: The United States Builds a New Navy
   Jan S. Breemer, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

8. Mission Possible: Organizational Learning in Peacetime
   Emily O. Goldman, University of California at Davis

9. . . . From the Sea: The Process of Defining a New Role for Naval Forces in the post-Cold War World
   Edward A. Smith, Jr., Boeing Corporation's Washington Studies and Analysis Group

Part V: Theory and Practice

10. Structure, Agency, and Choice: Toward a Theory and Practice of Grand Strategy
    Emily O. Goldman, University of California at Davis and John Arquilla, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School