The last module introduced the concept
of grand strategy,

and talked about it as a way of 
categorizing clumps of national interests

and foreign policies that the US 
government might pursue.

Grand strategies clump foreign policies
together in the same way that

partisanship, or the democratic and
republican party labels, clump together

various domestic policy positions.

For example, in domestic politics, 
When you hear a proposal for tax cuts,

you tend to identify that with the
republican party.

In grand strategy debates, when
you hear policies designed to strengthen

multilateral international organizations,

like the United Nations, as we saw in 
Obama's West Point speech,

we tend to think of liberal 
internationalism.

A grand strategy we will 
be discussing in this module.

We also examined the Obama
doctrine as a means to illustrate

some of the dimensions 
of grand strategy.

And then we introduced one variant of
this larger debate about grand strategy.

That of isolationism.

In this group of lecture segments, we're 
going to continue our discussion

of the varieties of US grand strategy,

by examining selective engagement,
offshore balancing,

liberal internationalism, and primacy.

There are eight additional lecture
segments in this module, the first

defines selective engagement.

The second discusses the presidencies
of Eisenhower and George H.W. Bush

as historical examples of selective 
engagement.

The third examines offshore balancing
through the Mireshimer and Walt reading.

The fourth segment defines liberal 
internationalism, and points to the

policies of Woodrow Wilson 
as reflecting this grand strategy.

The fifth defines the grand strategy
of primacy,

and briefly introduces the policies of
George H.W. Bush

as an example of it.

It also examines the relationship between
neoconservatism and primacy.

The sixth segment summarizes the
relationships and differences among

the entire array of grand strategies, 
discussed in this module

and the prior one.

And the last two segments examine how
we might define the grand strategy of

the Trump administration.