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Grand Strategy Is an Illusion

The notion that the United States pursues a coherent grand strategy is largely an illusion; observed foreign policy behavior is better explained as the aggregate output of competing self-interested actors than as the execution of a rational national plan.

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Speaker

Richard Hanania

Evidence Quote

Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy

Source

Richard Hanania - Foreign Policy, Fertility, and WokenessDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:25:29 AM

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