“The best education in grand strategy available in a single volume . . . a book that should be read by every American leader or would-be leader.”—The Wall

“The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm,” writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international

Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy

This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States