A Program of the Stanley Foundation

Readings

Independent Task Force on Strategies for US National Security: Winning the Peace in the 21st Century

Session 3
The US Grand Strategy
January 17, 2003

US Grand Strategy (Spreading of Democracy; Use of Force)

John Lewis Gaddis, "A Grand Strategy of Transformation," Foreign Policy, November/December 2002.

Michael Ignatieff, "The Burden," The New York Times, January 5, 2003.

Charles Krauthammer, "The Unipolar Moment Revisited," The National Interest, no. 70 (winter 2002/03).

Iraq, the Middle East, and Grand Strategy

Charles Krauthammer, "Victory Changes Everything...," The Washington Post, November 30, 2001, sec. A, p. 41.

Charles Krauthammer, "Where Power Talks," The Washington Post, January 4, 2002, sec A p. 27.

John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, "An Unnecessary War," Foreign Policy, January/February 2003.

Marina Ottaway, Thomas Carothers, Amy Hawthorne, and Daniel Brumberg. Democratic Mirage in the Middle East (Policy Brief published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2002).

North Korea and Grand Strategy

Leon Fuerth, "Outfoxed by North Korea," The New York Times, January 1, 2003.

Paul Krugman, "Games Nations Play," The New York Times, January 3, 2003.