What Asia Understands of U.S. Grand Strategy?
December 3, 2003
Main Speaker
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About This Seminar
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.