This course constitutes a seminar on the history and practice of grand strategy and international politics. Grand strategy refers to the long-term planning undertaken by empires and states to translate their available means into identifiable ends, while they simultaneously develop countermeasures against perceived threats. We will analyze strategies pursued by both great and peripheral powers from the early modern era to the present. The course emphasizes changes in strategic thinking over time; the relationship between strategy, politics, economics, law, and culture; the relationship between technological and strategic change; and theoretical approaches to strategic studies.
- Teacher: Dustin Walcher