Grand Strategies of the Left

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-316-51866-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Why are progressives often critical of US foreign policy and the national security state? What would a statecraft that pulls ideas from the American left look like? Grand Strategies of the Left brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies and foreign policy practice. It argues that American progressives think durable security will only come by prioritizing the interconnected conditions of peace, democracy, and equality. By conceiving of grand strategy as worldmaking, progressives see multiple ways of using foreign policy to make a more just and stable world. US statecraft – including defense policy – should be retooled not for primacy, endless power accumulation, or a political status quo that privileges elites, but rather to shape the context that gives rise to perpetual insecurity. Progressive worldmaking has its own risks and dilemmas but expands how we imagine what the world is and could be.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Van

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Thinking differently about security; 2. liberal internationalism and its critics; 3. The Politics of progressivism; 4. Principles of progressive worldmaking; 5. Progressive pragmatism as a progressive grand strategy; 6. anti-hegemonism as a progressive grand strategy; 7. Peacemaking as a progressive grand strategy; 8. varieties of progressive political economy; 9. Political terrain and social democratic statecraft.

Über Autor(innen)

Jackson, Van
Van Jackson is a Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington and a Senior Research Scholar at Security in Context, where he co-directs the Multipolarity, Great-Power Competition, and the Global South project. A leading voice of progressive foreign policy thought, Jackson is also the author of Pacific Power Paradox (2023).