New Releases by John Lewis Gaddis

本書分析了遏制戰略的演變歷史,並且在大戰略理論方面做出了重要建樹.加迪斯從戰略的目標,對威脅的認識以及實現戰略的手段三個方面,對冷戰時期不同版本的遏制戰略進行了分析,通過歷史研究揭示了每種遏制戰略的實施效果及優劣.

Klassiker inom tillampad historia tar ett stort och ambitiost grepp om hur historisk kunskap skapas, lars ut och anvands under olika epoker. I boken presenteras ett brett urval av texter fran till exempel Niccolo Machiavelli, E.H. Carr, Ernest May och Margaret MacMillan, som tillsammans skapar bade overblick och insikt i detta standigt aktuella amne.

''Een bondig en scherpzinnig overzicht van de Koude Oorlog.'' Henry Kissinger

Una clase magistral sobre el arte del liderazgo por el mayor experto mundial en pensamiento estratégico. ¿Qué lecciones de estrategia y liderazgo podemos extraer de la derrota de la Armada Invencible, de la actuación de Churchill en la Segunda Guerra Mundial o de las astutas decisiones de Pericles en la Grecia antigua? John Lewis Gaddis cuenta las más sorprendentes maniobras, fallidas o atinadas, desde el mundo clásico hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y profundiza en el pensamiento estratégico a partir de figuras como Heródoto, César Augusto, San Agustín, Maquiavelo, Felipe II, Clausewitz, Tolstói, Lincoln, Roosevelt o Isaiah Berlin. Gaddis, distinguido historiador de la Guerra Fría, ha estado durante casi dos décadas al frente del legendario programa de estrategia de la Universidad de Yale. En Grandes estrategias reflexiona sobre todo lo aprendido y aplica sus profundos conocimientos para conectar momentos, lugares y personas como nunca antes sehabía hecho. Para cualquier persona interesada en el arte de la estrategia en cualquier terreno, este libro es una clase magistral. La crítica ha dicho... «Un libro que da muchas pistas para comprender lo que nos falta y cómo ponerle remedio.» Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, El País «John Lewis Gaddis es una de las personas más adecuadas para reorientar el estudio de la historia a través de ese principio de método llamado estrategia, es decir, la política bélica [...] porque fusiona en su trabajo el conocimientodel pasado y la reflexión sobre el futuro, cualidad privativa de las inteligencias superiores.» José Enrique Ruiz-Domènec, La Vanguardia «Una valiosa defensa de las artes liberales, una reflexión atractiva sobre la educación universitaria y algún consejo oportuno sobre cómo lavictoria duradera consiste en ganar lo que puedas en lugar de todo lo que deseas.» Victor Davis Hanson, The New York Times «Brillante, sabio, escrito de manera seductora y profundo.» Roger Kimball, The New Criterion «Gaddis se ha ganado el derecho indiscutible a arar en diferentes campos de investigación histórica, cosa que hace aquí con evidente deleite y curiosidad peripatética.» Gordon M. Goldstein, The Washington Post «Un largo paseo en compañía de una mente única y encantadora, que logra transmitir las lecciones extraídas de distintos continentes y milenios.» John Nagl, The Wall Street Journal «Todo lo que hay que saber sobre cómo los líderes toman decisiones estratégicas. Un estudio sabio e ingenioso del pasado al servicio del futuro.» Kirkus Reviews «Gaddis muestra un profundo conocimiento de la historia y ofrece un estilo de prosa agradablemente sintético a este riguroso estudio del liderazgo.» Publishers Weekly

1945. La guerre est finie. Un nouvel affrontement, d''une nature et d''une ampleur inédites, commence. George Orwell lui donnera un nom : la guerre froide. De 1947 à la chute du mur de Berlin (1989) puis de l''Union soviétique (1991), le monde va vivre sous cette menace. John Lewis Gaddis en livre une synthèse magistrale. Sur le fondement d''archives qui n''avaient jusqu''alors jamais été ouvertes, il fait revivre tous les épisodes majeurs de cette époque qui, plus que toute autre, a façonné la nôtre : blocus de Berlin, course aux armements nucléaires, guerre de Corée, crise de Suez, répression de l''insurrection hongroise, construction du mur de Berlin, crise de Cuba, écrasement du Printemps de Prague, crise des euromissiles... Gaddis décrypte, recueillant bon nombre de témoignages et fouillant les notes et Mémoires, la personnalité des acteurs : Churchill, Roosevelt, Staline, Truman, Brejnev, Nixon, Castro, Che Guevara, Kennedy, Reagan, Khrouchtchev, Jean-Paul II, Thatcher, Walesa, Bush, Gorbatchev... Gaddis raconte le comment et le pourquoi : pourquoi les Etats-Unis et l''Union soviétique se retrouvèrent dans une impasse mortelle ; comment nous sommes passés très près de l''apocalypse nucléaire ; ce que les dirigeants avaient à l''esprit, de Staline à Mao Zedong, de Reagan à Gorbatchev ; comment des agents secrets agirent dans l''ombre et comment des vacanciers d''Allemagne de l''Est firent tomber les premières pierres du mur de Berlin... C''est une histoire de situations de crise et de subterfuges, de négociations et de mensonges, de tyrans et de lutte pour le pouvoir - et d''hommes ordinaires qui changent le cours de l''Histoire.

Esistono criteri strategici generali in grado di assicurare la vittoria nella guerra contro i nemici, oppure nella lotta contro un avversario politico? O che, semplicemente, possano garantire maggiori probabilità di successo quando si devono affrontare e risolvere situazioni critiche? John Lewis Gaddis, storico della guerra fredda e autorevole esperto di politica internazionale, risponde a questi interrogativi traendo spunto da un enigmatico frammento del poeta greco Archiloco: «La volpe sa molte cose, ma il riccio ne sa una grande». In un serrato confronto sia con i classici della storiografia (da Erodoto a Tucidide), del pensiero strategico (da Clausewitz a Sun Tzu) e del pensiero politico (da Machiavelli a Isaiah Berlin), sia con le opere di sant''Agostino e l''immortale Guerra e pace di Tolstoj, per citare solo alcune delle sue numerose fonti, Gaddis rivisita eventi e snodi epocali della storia dell''Occidente per mostrare gli esiti felici, o viceversa fallimentari, delle diverse scelte strategiche adottate dai protagonisti. Dal disastroso progetto d''invasione della Grecia del «re dei re» persiano Serse alle drammatiche contorsioni della guerra del Peloponneso, dalla sorprendente edificazione dell''impero romano a opera di Ottaviano Augusto alla sagacia con cui Elisabetta I seppe resistere all''Invincibile Armada facendo dell''Inghilterra la regina dei mari, dalla disfatta di Napoleone in Russia all''abilità dei più grandi presidenti americani (Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson e Franklin D. Roosevelt): la lezione che se ne può trarre è la ricorrente supremazia di chi ha saputo «combinare il senso di direzione tipico del riccio e la sensibilità per l''ambiente circostante tipica della volpe», ovvero la superiorità di una visione strategica attenta ai vari aspetti della congiuntura, alla peculiarità del terreno d''azione e al bilanciamento di mezzi e fini, e più incline alla flessibilità che alla dogmatica aderenza al piano originario e all''imperativo di realizzare, sempre e comunque, l''obiettivo prestabilito. Se, come ha scritto il «Wall Street Journal», Lezioni di strategia è «un libro che dovrebbe essere letto da qualsiasi leader o aspirante leader americano», tale invito può essere senz''altro esteso a tutti coloro che, anche al di fuori degli Stati Uniti e senza spiccate ambizioni di leadership, sono chiamati a compiere scelte problematiche o a misurarsi con sfide di particolare complessità.

A Grande Estratégia é um estudo rigoroso sobre as questões de liderança e uma análise da teoria e da prática estratégica, em períodos que vão da Antiguidade à Segunda Guerra Mundial, feita à luz do pensamento de grandes figuras como Heródoto, Tucídides, Sun Tzu, Augusto, Santo Agostinho, Maquiavel, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln ou Franklin D. Roosevelt. Repleto de exemplos sugestivos de liderança e pensamento estratégico, de Xerxes, rei dos Persas, às estratégias de Churchill e Roosevelt na Segunda Grande Guerra, Gaddis traz-nos o seu profundo conhecimento da História num estilo de escrita ligeiro e agradável. Para todos os envolvidos em questões de liderança, ou interessados nesta arte, este livro é uma lição de alto nível.

“The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.”—The Wall Street Journal A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. On Grand Strategy applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he’s never written about before. For anyone interested in the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master class.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War delivers a revelatory biography of its troubled mastermind. In the late 1940s, George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set forward the strategy of containment that would define U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union for the next four decades. This achievement alone would qualify him as the most influential American diplomat of the Cold War era. But he was also an architect of the Marshall Plan, a prizewinning historian, and would become one of the most outspoken critics of American diplomacy, politics, and culture during the last half of the twentieth century. Now the full scope of Kennan''s long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today''s most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis began this magisterial history almost thirty years ago, interviewing Kennan frequently and gaining complete access to his voluminous diaries and other personal papers. So frank and detailed were these materials that Kennan and Gaddis agreed that the book would not appear until after Kennan''s death. It was well worth the wait: the journals give this book a breathtaking candor and intimacy that match its century-long sweep. We see Kennan''s insecurity as a Midwesterner among elites at Princeton, his budding dissatisfaction with authority and the status quo, his struggles with depression, his gift for satire, and his sharp insights on the policies and people he encountered. Kennan turned these sharp analytical gifts upon himself, even to the point of regularly recording dreams. The result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself. This is a landmark work of history and biography that reveals the vast influence and rich inner landscape of a life that both mirrored and shaped the century it spanned.

Ensayo de interpretación histórica, donde el especialista en estrategias militares e historia de posguerra, John Lewis Gaddis emplea la información liberada en los años siguientes a la disolución del bloque soviético para ofrecer una nueva visión acerca de la Guerra Fría. el autor emplea en su exposición minutas de las reuniones del Politburo, información de los archivos, recientemente abiertos, de la Unión Soviética y Asia, conversaciones entre dirigentes oídas y anotadas por sus ayudantes y, sobre todo, las palabras de los protagonistas del conflicto.

Den kalde krigen var preget av spionasje, konfrontasjoner og løgner, men også av stort politisk mot i sluttfasen. Den amerikanske historikeren John Lewis Gaddis gir her en oversikt over den kalde krigen. Han formidler i boken hvordan det var å leve i skyggen av den kalde krigen, og med frykten for en atomkrig. De amerikanske presidentene Kennedy, Nixon og Reagan, den britiske statsministeren Thatcher, de sovjetiske presidentene Khrusjtsjov og Gorbatsjov og formann Mao var alle viktige for utfallet av den kalde krigen, og har derfor en selvfølgelig plass i boken. Gaddis er i dag professor ved Yale universitet, og har den kalde krigen som spesialfelt.

“Outstanding . . . The most accessible distillation of that conflict yet written.” —The Boston Globe “Energetically written and lucid, it makes an ideal introduction to the subject.” —The New York Times The “dean of Cold War historians” (The New York Times) now presents the definitive account of the global confrontation that dominated the last half of the twentieth century. Drawing on newly opened archives and the reminiscences of the major players, John Lewis Gaddis explains not just what happened but why—from the months in 1945 when the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. went from alliance to antagonism to the barely averted holocaust of the Cuban Missile Crisis to the maneuvers of Nixon and Mao, Reagan and Gorbachev. Brilliant, accessible, almost Shakespearean in its drama, The Cold War stands as a triumphant summation of the era that, more than any other, shaped our own. Gaddis is also the author of On Grand Strategy.

In this provocative book, a distinguished Cold War historian argues that September 11, 2001, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy.

A classic synthesis of US security policy, now updated to include analysis of how Reagan, Bush Snr., Clinton, & Bush Jnr. have defended the nation. Previous ed.: 1982.

When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis'' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt''s postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George F. Kennan''s original strategy of containment, NSC-68, The Eisenhower-Dulles "New Look," the Kennedy-Johnson "flexible response" strategy, the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente, and now a comprehensive assessment of how Reagan - and Gorbechev - completed the process of containment, thereby bringing the Cold War to an end. He concludes, provocatively, that Reagan more effectively than any other Cold War president drew upon the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their weaknesses. A must-read for anyone interested in Cold War history, grand strategy, and the origins of the post-Cold War world.