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