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Comparative Grand Strategy - A Framework and Cases (Paperback)
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Comparative Grand Strategy - A Framework and Cases (Paperback)
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This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's
Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how
grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader
framework. The volume responds to three key problems common to both
academia and policymaking. First, the literature on the concept of
grand strategy generally focuses on the United States, offering no
framework for comparative analysis. Indeed, many proponents of US
grand strategy suggest that the concept can only be applied, at
most, to a very few great powers such as China and Russia. Second,
characteristically it remains prescriptive rather than explanatory,
ignoring the central conundrum of why differing countries respond
in contrasting ways to similar pressures. Third, it often
understates the significance of domestic politics and policymaking
in the formulation of grand strategies - emphasizing mainly
systemic pressures. This book addresses these problems. It seeks to
analyze and explain grand strategies through the intersection of
domestic and international politics in ten countries grouped
distinctively as great powers (The G5), regional powers (Brazil and
India) and pivotal powers hostile to each other who are able to
destabilize the global system (Iran, Israel, and Saudi Arabia). The
book thus employs a comparative framework that describes and
explains why and how domestic actors and mechanisms, coupled with
external pressures, create specific national strategies. Overall,
the book aims to fashion a valid, cross-contextual framework for an
emerging research program on grand strategic analysis.
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