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H-Diplo|ISSF Commentary I-3 on the 2022 US National Security Strategy

December 23, 2022December 6, 2022 By Joseph M. Parent, Paul K. MacDonald

[Our essayists decided that the best analysis of the Biden administration’s 2022 strategy would take the form of a Gothic dialogue between American founders –ed.] Outside Philadelphia, Two Ghosts Walk into a Bar. James Madison: [cheerily] Who wants a drink? President Biden’s National Security Strategy [NSS] is here! John Adams: Convince me to care. Every…

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Roundtable 13-11 on Grand Strategy from Truman to Trump

May 27, 2022June 7, 2022 By Paul Avey, Mariya Grinberg, Ionut Popescu, Hilde Eliassen Restad, Peter Dombrowski Benjamin Miller and Ziv Rubinovitz

This roundtable is a rarity, not for the H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review series, of course, but for roundtables published in many journals and online fora; it begins with a serious, well-written book and continues with three serious, well-written, critical review essays.  There is not a clunker in the mix.  The complete package is a model for…

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Roundtable 11-21 on Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy

August 3, 2020July 29, 2020 By James N. Miller, Heather Williams, Francis J. Gavin, Joshua Rovner

Nuclear weapons are fundamentally different from other military tools.  The technology is familiar and yet still exotic; the ability to split nuclei and fuse them together remains one of the most extraordinary technical milestones of the last century.  And the yields of nuclear explosions are orders of magnitude greater than those of conventional weapons, making…

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Authors’ Response to Article Review 118 on “Is Grand Strategy a Research Program? A Review Essay”

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019 By Thierry Balzacq, Peter Dombrowski, Simon Reich

We find it somewhat unusual to have a book review essay reviewed by another scholar. But we are pleased that H-Diplo chose to accord our piece “Is Grand Strategy a Research Program? A Review Essay,” this honor. We are also pleased that Dr. Nina Silove chose to devote the time and effort to this task.

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Article Review 118 on “Is Grand Strategy a Research Program? A Review Essay.”

May 31, 2019June 9, 2019 By Nina Silove

Thierry Balzacq, Peter Dombrowski, and Simon Reich (BDR) enquire whether grand strategy is a field of study or a mature research program. This is an important question, answers to which would be of tremendous interest to scholars of grand strategy and pivotal for the future of this ever-expanding field of study.

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Roundtable 10-19 on American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security

November 29, 2018January 22, 2021 By Zack Cooper, Peter Dombrowski, Evan Braden Montgomery, David Kang, Hal Brands

It has become accepted wisdom in Washington, D.C., and among many international relations scholars, that East Asia is a region rife with geopolitical rivalry, and that the United States and China are destined for protracted great-power competition and perhaps conflict. In his newest book, David Kang offers a sharply contrarian viewpoint. He argues that East…

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Article Review 93 on “Beyond the Buzzword: The Three Meanings of “Grand Strategy.””

February 21, 2018February 17, 2018 By Alex Roland

Nina Silove argues that “the popularity of the term ‘grand strategy’ has increased exponentially since the end of the Cold War” (1). This bold and questionable claim will warrant closer examination later. But its underlying point is nonetheless true. A key-word search for “grand strategy” in articles in refereed journals for the year 2015 produced…

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Roundtable 8-16 on Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

July 11, 2016December 24, 2020 By Richard K. Betts, Jolyon Howorth, Robert J. Lieber, Paul K. MacDonald, Barry R. Posen

There are many international relations theorists in academia who opine on world order and grand strategy.  There are many policy analysts in think tanks with deep understanding of military programs, budgets, and operations.  There are not many, however, who combine both sorts of expertise in equal depth.  Barry Posen is one of the very best…

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Roundtable 7-2, What Good is Grand Strategy: Power and Purpose in American Statecraft from Harry S. Truman to George W. Bush

October 17, 2014December 19, 2017 By H-Diplo

One could not ask for a more timely book than Hal Brands’s What Good is Grand Strategy? In the same month that Brands’s book was published a rather important figure in American political life offered his own answer. As reported by David Remnick in January 2014, President Obama dismissed the need for a new grand…

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Response to Article Review No. 20 on “Don’t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment.”

August 12, 2013February 2, 2017 By Michael D. Cohen

In their recent article “Don’t Come Home America: The Case against Retrenchment,” Stephen G. Brooks, G. John Ikenberry and William C. Wohlforth (hereafter referred to as BIW) argue that the prevailing scholarly wisdom on U.S. grand strategy is wrong.[1] This wisdom states that the U.S. should curtail or eliminate its overseas military presence and security…

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