Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring and so elusive to those who make American statecraft, exploring what grand strategy is, why it is so essential, and why it is so hard to get right.
An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order
In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks... Læs mere
A leading historian’s guide to great-power competition with China and Russia, as told through America’s successes and failures in the Cold War