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What constitutes the United States’ Grand
Strategy at any one time may not always be clear, but it
has been evolving in the United States in one form or another
for some 200 years. Points of clarity are usually found in
pithy phrases, for example, the Monroe Doctrine, “manifest
destiny,” the Open Door in China, and Wilson’s
self-determination. Since the end of the Second World War,
there have been a plethora of phrases or slogans. Among them, “containment” after
1947, fighting “the evil empire” in the 1980s
and, more recently, arguments for “homeland security,” “interventionism,” especially
against the “axis of evil,” and even a new kind
of “American empire.” Dr. Wang shall offer an
Asian perspective of this process of enlargement.
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Dr.
Gungwu Wang
Director of the East Asian Institute
National University of Singapore
Discussants:
Dr.
Richard Solomon
President
United States Institute of Peace
Dr.
Lanxin Xiang
Henry A. Kissinger Scholar
Library of Congress
Moderator
Dr. G. John Ikenberry
Peter F. Krogh Professor of Global Justice
Georgetown University
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