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| Chair: | James C. Chace |
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| Staff: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
July 1, 2003 - April 30, 2004
This Study Group met to review draft chapters of Walter Mead's book, Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk, published by Knopf.
In this book, Mead attempts to provide a short and comprehensible guide to America’s strategy in the world—-the nature of the threat, the attacks of September 11, and the Bush administration’s response—-and an evaluation of how successful it has or has not been.
Publications
April 2004
In Power, Terror, Peace, and War, Mead—one of the most original writers on U.S. foreign policy—provides a fascinating and timely account of the Bush administration’s foreign policy and its current grand strategy for the world.
Meetings
American Grand Strategy - Session One
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| Panelist: | James C. Chace, Bard College |
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| Speaker: | Walter Russell Mead |
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