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The US has consistently pursued a grand strategy “focused on acquiring and maintaining preeminent power over various rivals,” they wrote, and “primacy ought to remain the central objective of US grand strategy in the twenty-first century.”
Obama is pursuing a coherent grand strategy – what he called in his 2009 inaugural address a “new era of responsibility.”
Such a grand project can be achieved if the political will exists and asserts itself.
A Merkel-led government could either be a continuation of the grand coalition between Merkel’s Christian Democrats and the center-left Social Democrats or some other political constellation.
The emergence of a coherent grand strategy (regardless of whether the West chooses to recognize it as such) is not all that has changed since 2014.
Originally announced in 2013, Xi’s plan to integrate Eurasia through a trillion dollars of investment in infrastructure stretching from China to Europe, with extensions to Southeast Asia and East Africa, has been termed China’s new Marshall Plan as well as its bid for a grand strategy.
Xi’s vision is impressive, but will it succeed as a grand strategy?
And while the BRI will provide China with geopolitical gains as well as costs, it is unlikely to be as much of a game changer in grand strategy, as some analysts believe.
But, without a degree of prudence based upon comprehension of the context, visions turn from grand to grandiose and undercut the values that they seek to promote.
More importantly, October will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples’ Republic of China, an occasion that the Party will commemorate in grand style.
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.
A “Merkel Plan” for EuropeLONDON – Ever since Europe’s economic crisis erupted more than four years ago, politicians and pundits have clamored for a grand solution, often invoking the example of America’s postwar Marshall Plan, which, starting in 1948, helped to rebuild Western Europe’s shattered, debt-ridden economies.
Parochial suspicion has been the main obstacle to a grand solution.
Politically, it would be smart if German Chancellor Angela Merkel were to take the initiative in proposing such a grand solution, rather than being forced into piecemeal, reluctant concessions by new governments in Greece, Spain, or elsewhere.
Health care expenditure totals a world-leading 14% of GDP stands, for a grand total of $1.3 trillion--and rising.
As he put it in 1951, “Many places don’t dare to kill counter-revolutionaries on a grand scale with big publicity.
At an ostentatious gathering of 50 Arab Sunni leaders in Riyadh, Trump was told that an Israeli-Palestine peace agreement would cement a grand pro-American Arab-Israeli alliance against Islamist terrorism and a resurgent Iran.
Glued to Al Jazeera and other Arab satellite channels, the various battles of the “war on terror” came to be viewed as a single chain of events in a grand plot against Islam.
But there is a significant risk that this latest step, however grand, might end up doing more for profits and bonuses in the financial sector than for the rest of the economy.
But a new grand coalition between Merkel and the Social Democrats could be sufficient to make this shift possible.
They are also often more focused on the plight of actual people than on the promotion of grand principles, preferring concrete progress to abstract victory.
Instead of using development funds to serve its own needs, the EU should offer a genuine grand bargain focused on the needs of recipient countries.
In order to kick-start progress, ECB President Mario Draghi has proposed a grand policy bargain to European governments: if they implement structural reforms and improve fiscal flexibility, the central bank will expand its balance sheet to boost growth and thwart deflation.
Great genres in culture have their epochs, such as epic grand opera and the music hall.
It is time for Russian and Western leaders to devise a grand bargain for peace in eastern Ukraine, one that goes beyond the Minsk Protocol to address the questions of global security and arms control that have impeded cooperation on issues like Syria’s civil war and Iran’s nuclear program.
In reality, the West today no longer has a grand strategy toward the East.
The ingredients for such a grand bargain are fairly clear.
In one corner stands the experienced, sophisticated grand old man of US diplomacy; in the other hulks the crude, braying archetypal man of Twitter.
It voted the grand coalition out of office with a bang, consigning the Social Democrats to the political abyss.
Moreover, with the grand coalition gone, she will no longer be able to blame SDP’s obstructionism for her inaction.
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