Grand Strategies of the Left

Van Jackson is a Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington and a Senior Research Scholar at Security in Context, where he co-directs the Multipolarity, Great-Power Competition, and the Global South project. A leading voice of progressive foreign policy thought, Jackson is also the author of Pacific Power Paradox (2023).

• Introduction; 1. Thinking differently about security; 2. liberal internationalism and its critics; 3. The Politics of progressivism; 4. Principles of progressive worldmaking; 5. Progressive pragmatism as a progressive grand strategy; 6. anti-hegemonism as a progressive grand strategy; 7. Peacemaking as a progressive grand strategy; 8. varieties of progressive political economy; 9. Political terrain and social democratic statecraft.

'In the two decades since the Iraq war, the American left has engaged in an ever more lively and far-reaching debate about US foreign policy, and what it should really be for. As both an astute observer and participant in those debates, Van Jackson has produced an enormously valuable contribution, one that will help move this important discussion forward.' Matt Duss, Executive Vice-President, Center for International Policy