27
September 2024
Past Event
Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present

Past Event
Hudson Institute
September 27, 2024
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27
September 2024
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: msnow@hudson.org

Speakers:
Jonathan Ward Hudson
Jonathan Ward

Former Senior Fellow

donald stoker
Dr. Donald Stoker

Professor of National Security and Resource Strategy, Dwight D. Eisenhower School, National Defense University

In his new book Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2024), Dr. Donald Stoker of the National Defense University lays out the grand strategies that have underpinned the United States’ foreign policy, from the Revolutionary War to the present great power competition against a China-led axis.

Join Hudson for a book talk with Dr. Stoker and Hudson’s Dr. Jonathan Ward, an expert on US-China policy and the author of The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph over China (Diversion Books, 2023), on how America can learn from this history to meet the challenges ahead.

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