E106 - American Grand Strategy Reconsidered w/ Christopher McKnight Nichols
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Jul 18 • 53M
E106 - American Grand Strategy Reconsidered w/ Christopher McKnight Nichols
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Danny and Derek welcome back Christopher McKnight Nichols, Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies and professor of history at Ohio State University, to the program for a chat about rethinking American grand strategy. They talk about what exactly “grand strategy” is, grand strategy vs. first principle, the role of WWII and the end of the Cold War in US grand strategy, PEPFAR and the Bush administration, climate change vs other low-success grand strategies, technology and grand strategy, and more.
Be sure to check out the volume Christopher co-edited, Rethinking American Grand Strategy!
E106 - American Grand Strategy Reconsidered w/ Christopher McKnight Nichols
Are you guys gunna do another mailbags all the fucking majority report nafo hawks are whiling out on you guys now for idk wanting to pursue diplomacy or thinking the us should stay out
Hey Danny, thanks as always for a great episode.
I had a question about how you conceive of the differing strategic ambitions of the U.S./China in light of your assertion that we live in post ideological age.
This episode you ascribe the U.S.'s aims for global hegemony to a protestant millinarism. If the ideological landscape has been flattened by ascendant post cold war liberalism, shouldn't we expect states to pursue foreign policy based on some similar conception of power/security? Is it meaningful to say we are in a post ideological age if protestant millinarism vs the lack thereof is driving the posture of major powers?