The Challenge of Grand Strategy: The Great Powers and the Broken Balance between the World Wars

Abstract

1. Introduction: grand strategy between the World Wars Steven E. Lobell, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro and Norrin M. Ripsman 2. Deterrence, coercion, and enmeshment: French grand strategy and the German problem after World War I Peter Jackson 3. The legacy of coercive peace building: the Locarno treaty, Anglo-French grand strategy, and the 1936 Rhineland crisis Scott A. Silverstone 4. The League of Nations and grand strategy: a contradiction in terms? Andrew Webster 5. Economic interdependence and the grand strategies of Germany and Japan, 1925-41 Dale C. Copeland 6. Britain's grand strategy during the 1930s: from balance of power to components of power Steven E. Lobell 7. British grand strategy and the rise of Germany, 1933-6 Norrin M. Ripsman and Jack S. Levy 8. Strategy of innocence or provocation? The Roosevelt administration's road to World War II Jeffrey W. Taliaferro 9. The rising sun was no jackal: Japanese grand strategy, the Tripartite Pact, and alliance formation theory Tsuyoshi Kawasaki 10. Powers of division: from the anti-Comintern to the Nazi-Soviet and Japanese-Soviet pacts, 1936-41 Timothy W. Crawford 11. Soviet grand strategy in the interwar years: ideology as realpolitik Mark L. Haas 12. Conclusions: rethinking interwar grand strategies David M. Edelstein.