Elizabeth Borgwardt (editor) - Rethinking American Grand Strategy

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Borgwardt, Elizabeth, 1964 editor. | Nichols, Christopher McKnight, editor. |

Preston, Andrew, 1973 editor.

Title: Rethinking American grand strategy / edited by Elizabeth Borgwardt,

Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston.

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020036111 (print) | LCCN 2020036112 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780190695668 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780190695675 (paperback) |

ISBN 9780190695699 (epub) | ISBN 9780190093143

Subjects: LCSH: National securityUnited StatesHistory. |

StrategyHistory. | United StatesForeign relations. |

United StatesMilitary policy.

Classification: LCC E183.7 .R38 2021 (print) |

LCC E183.7 (ebook) | DDC 355/.033073dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036111

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020036112

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190695668.001.0001

To those we love and have lost recently Carolyn Nichols, Rodney Nichols, Kevin Preston

Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

Hal Brands

Beverly Gage

Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor

Charles Edel

Matthew Karp

Katherine C. Epstein

David Milne

Christopher McKnight Nichols

Elizabeth Borgwardt

Michaela Hoenicke Moore

Andrew Preston

David Greenberg

William Inboden

Jeffrey A. Engel

Emily Conroy-Krutz

Adriane Lentz-Smith

Daniel J. Tichenor

Julia F. Irwin

Ryan Irwin

Laura Briggs

Mary L. Dudziak

Fredrik Logevall

For their support of this project and the international conference at Oregon State University in 2016 that helped to generate this book, we thank the OSU College of Liberal Arts and Dean Larry Rodgers, the OSU School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, and Directors Ben Mutschler and Nicole von Germeten, as well as the OSU Center for the Humanities. We are very grateful for the support of Patrick and Vicki Stone, the Andrew Carnegie Corporation, and our other sponsors and collaborators. We want to recognize C-SPANs coverage of the conference, and we extend special thanks to Robert Peckyno, Natalia Bueno, and Dougal Henken for exceptional design and conference support.

We deeply appreciate the superb team at Oxford University Press who helped to shepherd this volume to completion. In particular, we owe a personal and professional debt of gratitude to Susan Ferber. Thank you, Susan, for sticking with this project over several years. The project has benefitted enormously from your keen editorial eye, sharp analysis, and friendly enthusiasm.

We thank our families for their support and forbearance through the many twists and turns of this project. Conceiving and orchestrating this conference and developing and revising this book project helped to generate intellectual community, which sustained and distracted us over a number of years during which we experienced significant suffering and loss. We dedicate this book those we love and have lost recently: to Kevin Preston, to Carolyn Nichols, and to Rodney Nichols.

Finally, his fellow editors would like to thank Chris Nichols for carrying this project forward when challenges presented themselves and difficulties mounted. After hosting the conference that got this book off the ground, Chriss drive and focus, but even more importantly his optimism and good humor, kept us on target. It is no exaggeration to say that without his efforts this book would not have been published.

Elizabeth Borgwardt is Associate Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of A New Deal for the World: Americas Vision for Human Rights (Harvard University Press, 2005).

Elizabeth H. Bradley, PhD, is President of Vassar College in New York. She was previously the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy and Professor of Public Health at Yale University. She is the co-author of the American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less (PublicAffairs, 2013) and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School in Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is writing a book about the Cold War and long-term competition.

Laura Briggs is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of a number of books, including Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and US Imperialism in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2002), and, most recently, Taking Children: A History of American Terror (University of California Press, 2020).

Emily Conroy-Krutz is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University and the author of Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic (Cornell University Press, 2015).

Mary L. Dudziak is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2012), among other books.

Charles Edel is a senior fellow at the University of Sydneys United States Studies Centre; previously, he was Associate Professor at the US Naval War College and served on the US Secretary of States policy planning staff from 2015 to 2017. He is co-author of The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order (Yale University Press, 2019) and author of Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams & the Grand Strategy of the Republic (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Jeffrey A. Engel is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. Author or editor of twelve books on American foreign policy, politics, and the American presidency, his latest are Impeachment: An American History (Modern Library, 2018) and When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).

Katherine C. Epstein