E106 - American Grand Strategy Reconsidered w/ Christopher McKnight Nichols
American Prestige
English - July 18, 2023 13:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 594 ratingsPolitics News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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!
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