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Highlights
- In a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial.
- Author(s): Sven Biscop
- 262 Pages
- Political Science, International Relations
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This book introduces ten key terms for analysing grand strategy and shows how the world's great powers - the United States, China, Russia and the European Union (EU) - shape their strategic decisions today and shows how the choices made will determine the course of world politics in the first half of the 21st century.Book Synopsis
In a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial. This book introduces ten key terms for analysing grand strategy and shows how the world's great powers - the United States, China, Russia and the European Union (EU) - shape their strategic decisions today.
Outlining the steps needed for a less confrontational grand strategy and a more peaceful and stable world order, this lively and accessible introduction shows how the choices made in each of these ten areas will determine the course of world politics in the first half of the 21st century.
Review Quotes
"A leading European expert giving wise counsel to strategy makers on both sides of the Atlantic, for a community of values that has choppy waters behind it, likely to face further rough seas ahead. Strongly recommended empirically-derived navigation aids for practitioners!" Beatrice Heuser, University of Glasgow
"An excellent and readable book. His analysis is clear and his suggestions for the future pertinent. He provides a comprehensive framework for understanding strategies in general, let alone the Grand Strategies of major powers." General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM
"A timely work accessible to practitioners, illuminating to scholars, and instructive to students....elegantly combines theory, history, and current-policy analysis to provide not only a primer on Grand Strategy, but a guide to how to mobilize the concept to understand and navigate an increasingly multi-polar world." Barry R. Posen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"This book is both a conceptual treatment of grand strategy and a prescriptive argument about 21st century geopolitics. While I do not agree with all of its conclusions, I believe all readers will find it most stimulating." Hal Brands, Johns Hopkins University and American Enterprise Institute
"At a time when it faces a double 'no deal' on Brexit and the Coronavirus Recovery Plan, the European Union badly needs a strategy. Sven Biscop, who has spent his entire career analysing the Union's strengths and weakness is well-placed to help her to start thinking about one. My recommendation can be summarised in fewer than ten words: 'buy this book'." Brendan Simms, University of Cambridge