American Grand Strategy and the Liberal Order: Continuity, Change, and Options for the Future

10.7249/pe209 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hal Brands
Keyword(s):  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Order Continuity ◽  
The Future ◽  
American Grand Strategy

American Grand Strategy and the Future of U.S. Landpower

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Da Silva ◽  
Hugh Liebert ◽  
III Wilson ◽  
Isaiah
Keyword(s):  
Grand Strategy ◽  
The Future ◽  
American Grand Strategy

American Doctrine: The Foundation of Grand Strategy

World Affairs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 181 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lamont Colucci
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Security ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Clear Pattern ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
American Grand Strategy

There is an organic American grand strategy, expressed over three centuries in multiple presidential doctrines. Through an examination of grand strategy and doctrines, a clear pattern of success and failure can be demonstrated. Doctrines and grand strategy continue to vanish from policy and public discourse. Often the concept of American Grand Strategy has nearly vanished from any discussion of national security and foreign policy. There is an assumption that expressions such as national security, foreign policy, national security doctrines, grand strategy, vital, national, and peripheral interests are the same concept; they are not. There are many definitions of Grand Strategy; they range along the spectrum from the simple to the complex. Grand Strategy is put into practice with the adoption of national security doctrines. These doctrines should be the highest form of statecraft, but they are often ignored or misunderstood. This article examines the definition of Grand Strategy, why Grand Strategy is often ignored, how Grand Strategy relates to national security doctrines, how national security doctrines are created and implemented, what have been the common themes in American Grand Strategy and doctrines, and what the future holds for American Grand Strategy. It postulates the return to an organic American doctrine that can engage the current national security threats.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Löfflmann
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Alternative Definition ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Conventional Literature ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
American Grand Strategy

This chapter highlights the conflict of competing grand strategy discourses under the Obama presidency, which are identified as hegemony, engagement and restraint. It provides an overview of the political significance of grand strategy and its treatment in the academic literature. The chapter describes the political and expert debate of American grand strategy under the Obama presidency and briefly introduces the theoretical-methodological framework that has guided the research into competing discourses of American grand strategy under Obama. The chapter offers an alternative definition of grand strategy from the conventional literature, identifying it as discursive link between geopolitical identity and national security.

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