The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War

Within a variety of historical contexts, The Shaping of Grand Strategy addresses the most important tasks states have confronted: namely, how to protect their citizens against the short-range as well as long-range dangers their polities confront in the present and may confront in the future. To be successful, grand strategy demands that governments and leaders chart a course that involves more than simply reacting to immediate events. Above all, it demands they adapt to sudden and major changes in the international environment, which more often than not involves the outbreak of great conflicts but at times demands recognition of major economic, political, or diplomatic changes. This collection of essays explores the successes as well as failures of great states attempting to create grand strategies that work and aims at achieving an understanding of some of the extraordinary difficulties involved in casting, evolving, and adapting grand strategy to the realities of the world.

• Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938
• On Grand Strategy
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
• Economic Policy Beyond the Headlines
• Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the US Foreign Service
• From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
• Understanding Contemporary Africa, 5th ed. (Introductions to the States and Regions of the Contemporary World)
• Citizenship and Immigration
• The Complete FSOT Study Guide: Practice Tests and Test Preparation Guide for the Written Exam and Oral Assessment
• International Security Studies: Theory and Practice