Thierry Balzacq is Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po and Professorial Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po where he also serves as the director of graduate studies in International Relations. Balzacq held a Honorary Professorial Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (2012-2015), where he was also Fellow for “outstanding research” at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. In 2015, Balzacq was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Diplomacy and International Security. He held a Marie Curie Visiting Chair in the Department of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth (2017-2019). He has published over a hundred scientific works in English and French, on Security, IR Theory, and Diplomatic Studies. Balzacq also co-edits the “Oxford Studies in Grand Strategy” book series.Ronald R. Krebs is Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Ron Krebs has been named a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Israel (2012), as well as Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts (2017-2020), and a McKnight Land-Grant Professor (2006-2008) at the University of Minnesota. He has published numerous articles in both scholarly and general-interest journals, magazines, and websites. Prof. Krebs is currently editor-in-chief of the leading scholarly journal Security Studies. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press' Oxford Studies in Grand Strategy and of the Journal of Global Security Studies.

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• 1: Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs: The Enduring Appeal of Grand Strategy I. The History of Grand Strategy 2: Lawrence Freedman: Grand Strategy: The History of a Concept 3: Neville Morley: Thucydides' Legacy in Grand Strategy 4: Beatrice Heuser: The Clausewitzian Traditions: Die Politik and the Political Purpose of Strategy 5: Lukas Milevski: Liddell Hart's Impact on the Study of Grand Strategy 6: Karin M. Fierke: Grand Strategy Beyond the West II. Theoretical Approaches 7: Charles Glaser: Rational Analysis of Grand Strategy 8: Daniel H. Nexon: Network Theory and Grand Strategy 9: Christian Bueger and Frank Gadinger: Making Grand Strategy in Practice 10: Thierry Balzacq and Pablo Barnier-Khawam: Ideas and Ideology in Grand Strategy 11: Markus Kornprobst and Corina-Ioana Traistaru: Discourse, Language, and Grand Strategy 12: Andrew W. Neal: Governmentality and Grand Strategy III. Sources 13: Norrin Ripsman and Igor Kovac: Material Sources of Grand Strategy 14: Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli: Technological Change and Grand Strategy 15: Jonathan D. Caverley: The Domestic Sources of Grand Strategy 16: Kevin Narizny: Economic Interests and Grand Strategy 17: Risa Brooks: Civil-Military Relations and Grand Strategy 18: Brian C. Rathbun: Individual Psychology and Grand Strategy: Romancing the State 19: David M. McCourt: Culture, Identity, and Grand Strategy 20: Stacie E. Goddard: Rhetoric, Legitimation, and Grand Strategy IV. Instruments 21: Pascal Vennesson: Grand Strategy and Military Power 22: Ole Jacob Sending: Diplomacy and Grand Strategy 23: Bryan R. Early and Keith Preble: Grand Strategy and the Tools of Economic Statecraft 24: Gregory Mitrovich: Covert Action and Grand Strategy 25: Joshua Rovner: Intelligence and Grand Strategy 26: Rosella Cappella Zielinski: Financing the Grand Strategies of Great and Rising Powers V. Strategic Menus and Choices 27: Robert Jervis: American Grand Strategies: Untangling the Debates 28: Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson: Strategy on the Upward Slope: The Grand Strategies of Rising States 29: Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent: Grand Strategies of Declining Powers 30: Anders Wivel: The Grand Strategies of Small States 31: Daniel Byman: The Grand Strategies of Violent Rebel Groups 32: William James: Grand Strategy and the Challenge of Change 33: Rebecca Friedman Lissner: Rethinking Grand Strategic Change: Overhauls versus Adjustments in Grand Strategy VI. Assessing Grand Strategy 34: Hal Brands and Peter Feaver: Getting Grand Strategy Right 35: William C. Wohlforth: The Challenge of Evaluating Grand Strategy 36: Richard K. Betts: Is Grand Strategy an Illusion? Or, the Grandiosity of Grand Strategy 37: David M. Edelstein: The Limits of Grand Strategy 38: Peter Dombrowski: Alternatives to Grand Strategy 39: John Bew, Maeve Ryan and Andrew Ehrhardt: Grand Strategic Thinking in History VII. The Future of Grand Strategy 40: Daniel W. Drezner: Grand Strategy in a Fractured Marketplace of Ideas 41: Ronald R. Krebs: Pluralism, Populism, and the Impossibility of Grand Strategy 42: Randall W. Schweller: Grand Strategy Under Nonpolarity 43: Robert G. Cantelmo and Sarah E. Kreps: Grand Strategy and Technological Futures 44: Mark L. Haas: Population Aging and Grand Strategy

Thierry Balzacq is Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po and Professorial Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po where he also serves as the director of graduate studies in International Relations. Balzacq held a Honorary Professorial Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (2012-2015), where he was also Fellow for “outstanding research” at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. In 2015, Balzacq was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Diplomacy and International Security. He held a Marie Curie Visiting Chair in the Department of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth (2017-2019). He has published over a hundred scientific works in English and French, on Security, IR Theory, and Diplomatic Studies. Balzacq also co-edits the “Oxford Studies in Grand Strategy” book series.Ronald R. Krebs is Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Ron Krebs has been named a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Israel (2012), as well as Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts (2017-2020), and a McKnight Land-Grant Professor (2006-2008) at the University of Minnesota. He has published numerous articles in both scholarly and general-interest journals, magazines, and websites. Prof. Krebs is currently editor-in-chief of the leading scholarly journal Security Studies. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press' Oxford Studies in Grand Strategy and of the Journal of Global Security Studies.

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• 1: Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs: The Enduring Appeal of Grand Strategy I. The History of Grand Strategy 2: Lawrence Freedman: Grand Strategy: The History of a Concept 3: Neville Morley: Thucydides' Legacy in Grand Strategy 4: Beatrice Heuser: The Clausewitzian Traditions: Die Politik and the Political Purpose of Strategy 5: Lukas Milevski: Liddell Hart's Impact on the Study of Grand Strategy 6: Karin M. Fierke: Grand Strategy Beyond the West II. Theoretical Approaches 7: Charles Glaser: Rational Analysis of Grand Strategy 8: Daniel H. Nexon: Network Theory and Grand Strategy 9: Christian Bueger and Frank Gadinger: Making Grand Strategy in Practice 10: Thierry Balzacq and Pablo Barnier-Khawam: Ideas and Ideology in Grand Strategy 11: Markus Kornprobst and Corina-Ioana Traistaru: Discourse, Language, and Grand Strategy 12: Andrew W. Neal: Governmentality and Grand Strategy III. Sources 13: Norrin Ripsman and Igor Kovac: Material Sources of Grand Strategy 14: Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli: Technological Change and Grand Strategy 15: Jonathan D. Caverley: The Domestic Sources of Grand Strategy 16: Kevin Narizny: Economic Interests and Grand Strategy 17: Risa Brooks: Civil-Military Relations and Grand Strategy 18: Brian C. Rathbun: Individual Psychology and Grand Strategy: Romancing the State 19: David M. McCourt: Culture, Identity, and Grand Strategy 20: Stacie E. Goddard: Rhetoric, Legitimation, and Grand Strategy IV. Instruments 21: Pascal Vennesson: Grand Strategy and Military Power 22: Ole Jacob Sending: Diplomacy and Grand Strategy 23: Bryan R. Early and Keith Preble: Grand Strategy and the Tools of Economic Statecraft 24: Gregory Mitrovich: Covert Action and Grand Strategy 25: Joshua Rovner: Intelligence and Grand Strategy 26: Rosella Cappella Zielinski: Financing the Grand Strategies of Great and Rising Powers V. Strategic Menus and Choices 27: Robert Jervis: American Grand Strategies: Untangling the Debates 28: Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson: Strategy on the Upward Slope: The Grand Strategies of Rising States 29: Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent: Grand Strategies of Declining Powers 30: Anders Wivel: The Grand Strategies of Small States 31: Daniel Byman: The Grand Strategies of Violent Rebel Groups 32: William James: Grand Strategy and the Challenge of Change 33: Rebecca Friedman Lissner: Rethinking Grand Strategic Change: Overhauls versus Adjustments in Grand Strategy VI. Assessing Grand Strategy 34: Hal Brands and Peter Feaver: Getting Grand Strategy Right 35: William C. Wohlforth: The Challenge of Evaluating Grand Strategy 36: Richard K. Betts: Is Grand Strategy an Illusion? Or, the Grandiosity of Grand Strategy 37: David M. Edelstein: The Limits of Grand Strategy 38: Peter Dombrowski: Alternatives to Grand Strategy 39: John Bew, Maeve Ryan and Andrew Ehrhardt: Grand Strategic Thinking in History VII. The Future of Grand Strategy 40: Daniel W. Drezner: Grand Strategy in a Fractured Marketplace of Ideas 41: Ronald R. Krebs: Pluralism, Populism, and the Impossibility of Grand Strategy 42: Randall W. Schweller: Grand Strategy Under Nonpolarity 43: Robert G. Cantelmo and Sarah E. Kreps: Grand Strategy and Technological Futures 44: Mark L. Haas: Population Aging and Grand Strategy

Thierry Balzacq is Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po and Professorial Fellow at CERI-Sciences Po where he also serves as the director of graduate studies in International Relations. Balzacq held a Honorary Professorial Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (2012-2015), where he was also Fellow for “outstanding research” at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. In 2015, Balzacq was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Diplomacy and International Security. He held a Marie Curie Visiting Chair in the Department of International Politics at the University of Aberystwyth (2017-2019). He has published over a hundred scientific works in English and French, on Security, IR Theory, and Diplomatic Studies. Balzacq also co-edits the “Oxford Studies in Grand Strategy” book series.Ronald R. Krebs is Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Ron Krebs has been named a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Israel (2012), as well as Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts (2017-2020), and a McKnight Land-Grant Professor (2006-2008) at the University of Minnesota. He has published numerous articles in both scholarly and general-interest journals, magazines, and websites. Prof. Krebs is currently editor-in-chief of the leading scholarly journal Security Studies. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Oxford University Press' Oxford Studies in Grand Strategy and of the Journal of Global Security Studies.

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• 1: Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs: The Enduring Appeal of Grand Strategy I. The History of Grand Strategy 2: Lawrence Freedman: Grand Strategy: The History of a Concept 3: Neville Morley: Thucydides' Legacy in Grand Strategy 4: Beatrice Heuser: The Clausewitzian Traditions: Die Politik and the Political Purpose of Strategy 5: Lukas Milevski: Liddell Hart's Impact on the Study of Grand Strategy 6: Karin M. Fierke: Grand Strategy Beyond the West II. Theoretical Approaches 7: Charles Glaser: Rational Analysis of Grand Strategy 8: Daniel H. Nexon: Network Theory and Grand Strategy 9: Christian Bueger and Frank Gadinger: Making Grand Strategy in Practice 10: Thierry Balzacq and Pablo Barnier-Khawam: Ideas and Ideology in Grand Strategy 11: Markus Kornprobst and Corina-Ioana Traistaru: Discourse, Language, and Grand Strategy 12: Andrew W. Neal: Governmentality and Grand Strategy III. Sources 13: Norrin Ripsman and Igor Kovac: Material Sources of Grand Strategy 14: Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli: Technological Change and Grand Strategy 15: Jonathan D. Caverley: The Domestic Sources of Grand Strategy 16: Kevin Narizny: Economic Interests and Grand Strategy 17: Risa Brooks: Civil-Military Relations and Grand Strategy 18: Brian C. Rathbun: Individual Psychology and Grand Strategy: Romancing the State 19: David M. McCourt: Culture, Identity, and Grand Strategy 20: Stacie E. Goddard: Rhetoric, Legitimation, and Grand Strategy IV. Instruments 21: Pascal Vennesson: Grand Strategy and Military Power 22: Ole Jacob Sending: Diplomacy and Grand Strategy 23: Bryan R. Early and Keith Preble: Grand Strategy and the Tools of Economic Statecraft 24: Gregory Mitrovich: Covert Action and Grand Strategy 25: Joshua Rovner: Intelligence and Grand Strategy 26: Rosella Cappella Zielinski: Financing the Grand Strategies of Great and Rising Powers V. Strategic Menus and Choices 27: Robert Jervis: American Grand Strategies: Untangling the Debates 28: Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson: Strategy on the Upward Slope: The Grand Strategies of Rising States 29: Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent: Grand Strategies of Declining Powers 30: Anders Wivel: The Grand Strategies of Small States 31: Daniel Byman: The Grand Strategies of Violent Rebel Groups 32: William James: Grand Strategy and the Challenge of Change 33: Rebecca Friedman Lissner: Rethinking Grand Strategic Change: Overhauls versus Adjustments in Grand Strategy VI. Assessing Grand Strategy 34: Hal Brands and Peter Feaver: Getting Grand Strategy Right 35: William C. Wohlforth: The Challenge of Evaluating Grand Strategy 36: Richard K. Betts: Is Grand Strategy an Illusion? Or, the Grandiosity of Grand Strategy 37: David M. Edelstein: The Limits of Grand Strategy 38: Peter Dombrowski: Alternatives to Grand Strategy 39: John Bew, Maeve Ryan and Andrew Ehrhardt: Grand Strategic Thinking in History VII. The Future of Grand Strategy 40: Daniel W. Drezner: Grand Strategy in a Fractured Marketplace of Ideas 41: Ronald R. Krebs: Pluralism, Populism, and the Impossibility of Grand Strategy 42: Randall W. Schweller: Grand Strategy Under Nonpolarity 43: Robert G. Cantelmo and Sarah E. Kreps: Grand Strategy and Technological Futures 44: Mark L. Haas: Population Aging and Grand Strategy