Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction- Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston
I. Frameworks
1. Getting Grand Strategy Right: Clearing Away Common Fallacies in
the Grand Strategy Debate- Hal Brands
2. The Blob and the Mob: On Grand Strategy and Social Change-
Beverly Gage
3. Turning the Tide: The Application of Grand Strategy to Global
Health- Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor
II. Historical Grand Narratives
4. Extending the Sphere: A Federalist Grand Strategy- Charles
Edel
5. Grand Strategy of the Master Class: Slavery and Foreign Policy
from the Antebellum Era to the Civil War-Matthew Karp
6. A Useful Category of Analysis? Grand Strategy and US Foreign
Relations from the Civil War through World War I- Katherine C.
Epstein
7. Grand Strategies (or Ascendant Ideas) since 1919- David
Milne
III. Recasting Central Figures
8. Woodrow Wilson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Beyond: American
Internationalists and the Crucible of World War I-I- Christopher
McKnight Nichols
9. Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal, and Grand Strategy:
Constructing the Postwar Order- Elizabeth Borgwardt
10. Foreign Policy Begins at Home: Americans, Grand Strategy, and
World War II- Michaela Hoenicke Moore
11. National Security as Grand Strategy: Edward Mead Earle and the
Burdens of World Power- Andrew Preston
12. The Misanthropy Diaries: Containment, Democracy, and the
Prejudices of George Frost Kennan- David Greenberg
13. Implementing Grand Strategy: The Nixon-Kissinger Revolution at
the National Security Council- William Inboden
14. George H.W. Bush: Strategy and the Stream of History- Jeffrey
A. Engel
IV. New Approaches
15. Foreign Missions and Strategy, Foreign Missions as Strategy-
Emily Conroy-Krutz
16. The Unbearable Whiteness of Grand Strategy- Adriane
Lentz-Smith
17. Rival Visions of Nationhood: Immigration Policy, Grand
Strategy, and Contentious Politics- Daniel J. Tichenor
18. Disastrous Grand Strategy: US Humanitarian Assistance and
Global Natural Catastrophe- Julia F. Irwin
19. Denizens of a Center: Rethinking Early Cold War Grand Strategy-
Ryan Irwin
20. Reproductive Politics and Grand Strategy- Laura Briggs
V. Reflections from the American Century
21. Casualties and the Concept of Grandness: A View from the Korean
War- Mary L. Dudziak
22. American Grand Strategy: How Grand Has It Been? How Much Does
It Matter?- Fredrik Logevall
Index
Elizabeth Borgwardt, Associate Professor of History and Law,
Washington University in St. Louis, Christopher McKnight Nichols,
Director of the Center for the Humanities and Associate Professor
of History, Oregon State University, Andrew Preston, Professor of
American History, University of Cambridge.
Elizabeth Borgwardt is an associate professor of history and law at
Washington University in St. Louis and the author of A New Deal for
the World: America's Vision for Human Rights.
Christopher McKnight Nichols is Director of the Center for the
Humanities and Associate Professor of History at Oregon State
University and the author of Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn
of a Global Age.
Andrew Preston is Professor of American History at the University
of Cambridge and the author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of
Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy and American Foreign
Relations: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2019), among other
books.
"'Grand strategy' is a term that is as difficult to define as it is
widely used by scholars and practitioners. This volume's editors
and contributors believe that the concept needs to be
reconceived....It should be broadened beyond its roots in military
affairs and conventionally defined security to include a variety of
additional issues, such as immigration, public health,
demographics, international assistance, and climate change. It also
needs to reach
beyond its traditional focus on the state as the only important
player to include other influential voices and actors....This
volume...is a valuable contribution to the task of broadly
rethinking the goals
and tactics of U.S. foreign policy. The analyses it presents are
solidly rooted in history and provide thought-provoking insights
into issues and actors that grand strategists rarely consider" --
Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs
"This is, overall, a fantastic book. It's incredibly thought
provoking and well researched. I appreciated that it challenged the
current ways of thinking of Grand Strategy, and questioned the
approaches taken by leaders throughout American history...This book
would be a great read for a student of American History,
Government, or Political Science, and I believe it offers a unique
perspective to anyone looking to understand the use of Grand
Strategy over the
past two centuries." -- Kyra Young, Corvallis Advocate
"I have never seen the words 'grand strategy' and 'global health'
in the same sentence, much less an exploration of race and grand
strategy. Rethinking Grand Strategy is not what you likely expect,
and is far better for it. It is a genuine step toward changing what
we think about when we think about grand strategy and who does the
thinking." -- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Professor Emerita, Princeton
University
"This is a terrific collection on the highs and lows of US grand
strategy and the debate over its significance. Giving ample room
for dissenting voices, the volume reaffirms the necessity of
strategic thinking for producing favorable outcomes on issues
ranging from national security to reproductive politics." -- O.A.
Westad, Yale University
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