Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Elizabeth Borgwardt
Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Elizabeth Borgwardt
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Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Author: Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, Andrew Preston

Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt, Steve Menasche

Unabridged: 19 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Kalorama

Published: 08/10/2021


Synopsis

What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought—what, in other words, makes it "grand"? In answering these questions, most scholars have focused on diplomacy and warfare, so much so that "grand strategy" has become almost an equivalent of "military history." The traditional attention paid to military affairs is understandable, but in today's world it leaves out much else that could be considered political, and therefore strategic. It is in fact possible to consider, and even reach, a more capacious understanding of grand strategy, one that still includes the battlefield and the negotiating table while expanding beyond them.

Rethinking American Grand Strategy assembles a roster of leading historians to examine America's place in the world. Its innovative chapters re-examine familiar figures, such as John Quincy Adams, George Kennan, and Henry Kissinger, while also revealing the forgotten episodes and hidden voices of American grand strategy. They expand the scope of diplomatic and military history by placing the grand strategies of public health, race, gender, humanitarianism, and the law alongside military and diplomatic affairs to reveal hidden strategists as well as strategies.

About Elizabeth Borgwardt

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on May 09, 2022

Great book for people interested in the history of American foreign relations\America in the world and people interested in contemporary international relations. A collection of essays by different authors, I found the chapters on historical framing of American grand strategy and the section on new......more

Goodreads review by J. Scott on March 04, 2025

This book is a long hard slog through the intimate details of grand strategy from a historical and modern conceptual framework. Said another way, “it is everything you wanted to know about Grand Strategy, and more.” The audio version of the book has two voices to help you work through the dense text......more