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    <title>Avoiding trivia</title>
    <subTitle>the role of strategic planning in American foreign policy</subTitle>
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    <publisher>Brookings Institution Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2009</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>"Critically assesses the past, future, and potential future role and impact of long-term strategic planning in foreign policy. Key figures from past decades of foreign policy and planning provide authoritative insight on the difficulties and importance of thinking and acting in a coherent way for the long term"--Provided by publisher.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>pt. 1. Introduction -- The challenging future of strategic planning in foreign policy / Daniel W. Drezner -- pt. 2. Grand strategy and policy planning -- Planning for policy planning / Richard N. Haass -- A road map for American leadership in a changing world / David F. Gordon and Daniel Twining -- A "return to normalcy"? : the future of America's internationalism / Jeffrey W. Legro -- pt. 3. Reforming strategic planning -- An integrative executive branch strategy for policy planning / Bruce W. Jentleson -- Strengthening U.S. strategic planning / Aaron L. Friedberg -- A strategic planning cell on national security at the White House / Peter Feaver and William Inboden -- pt. 4. Limits and opportunities for strategic planning -- Why the best is not yet to come in policy planning / Amy B. Zegart -- Learning the right lessons from the 1940s / Thomas Wright -- Foreign policy planning through a private sector lens / Andrew P.N. Erdmann -- The garbage can framework for locating policy planning / Stephen D. Krasner.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Daniel W. Drezner, editor.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Strategic planning</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Foreign relations</topic>
    <topic>Planning</topic>
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