DWA 368 American Grand Strategy: The Perils of Being Number One

America is the most powerful nation in the post-Cold War world but has not as yet forged a national consensus on post-Cold War foreign policy. The country and the world have repudiated the neo-Con unilateralist approach of the Bush administration?but there is no agreed upon substitute. Various authors are proposing strategies from "ethical realism" to "liberal interventionism" to "neo-isolationism" and on. The course will examine critically proposals for a new American Grand Strategy from leading foreign policy thinkers and from groups such as the Princeton project. We will try to agree on what a workable Grand Strategy might be?and analyze whether it might have widespread bi-partisan support at home and ample international support abroad.