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The last module introduced the concept
of grand strategy,
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and talked about it as a way of
categorizing clumps of national interests
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and foreign policies that the US
government might pursue.
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Grand strategies clump foreign policies
together in the same way that
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partisanship, or the democratic and
republican party labels, clump together
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various domestic policy positions.
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For example, in domestic politics,
When you hear a proposal for tax cuts,
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you tend to identify that with the
republican party.
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In grand strategy debates, when
you hear policies designed to strengthen
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multilateral international organizations,
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like the United Nations, as we saw in
Obama's West Point speech,
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we tend to think of liberal
internationalism.
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A grand strategy we will
be discussing in this module.
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We also examined the Obama
doctrine as a means to illustrate
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some of the dimensions
of grand strategy.
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And then we introduced one variant of
this larger debate about grand strategy.
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That of isolationism.
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In this group of lecture segments, we're
going to continue our discussion
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of the varieties of US grand strategy,
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by examining selective engagement,
offshore balancing,
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liberal internationalism, and primacy.
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There are eight additional lecture
segments in this module, the first
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defines selective engagement.
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The second discusses the presidencies
of Eisenhower and George H.W. Bush
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as historical examples of selective
engagement.
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The third examines offshore balancing
through the Mireshimer and Walt reading.
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The fourth segment defines liberal
internationalism, and points to the
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policies of Woodrow Wilson
as reflecting this grand strategy.
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The fifth defines the grand strategy
of primacy,
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and briefly introduces the policies of
George H.W. Bush
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as an example of it.
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It also examines the relationship between
neoconservatism and primacy.
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The sixth segment summarizes the
relationships and differences among
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the entire array of grand strategies,
discussed in this module
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and the prior one.
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And the last two segments examine how
we might define the grand strategy of
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the Trump administration.