Class Id: 10193
Days: Th
Start Time: 01:30 PM
End Time: 04:20 PM
Building: ROBEH
Room: 020
Course Id: 4559
Departments and Numbers: POL 475, WWS 475
Area: SA
Title: Special Topics in Public Affairs: Grand Strategy
Description: Military strategy was defined by Clausewitz as the use of battle to achieve the objectives of war. Grand strategy is broader, encompassing the attempted use by political leaders of financial, economic, and diplomatic, as well as military, power to achieve their objectives in peacetime and in war. This seminar will examine the theory and practice of grand strategy both to illuminate how relations among city-states, empires, kingdoms and nation states have evolved over the centuries and also to identify some common challenges that have confronted all who seek to make and execute grand strategy, from Pericles to Barack Obama.
Prerequisites: Some knowledge of U.S. European, and/or Asian history is essential, though there are no prerequisite courses.
Professors: Aaron L. Friedberg, Denise L. Mauzerall, G. John Ikenberry
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