Liberal World Restored?

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Grand Strategy Analysis and the Biden Administration

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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President Joe Biden sought to restore the United States’ postwar liberal order in his first two years as president. Biden advocated democratic partnerships, ended the war in Afghanistan, actively supported Ukraine against Russian invasion, pushed techno-nationalist policies, rearranged the Indo-Pacific alliance network, and ratcheted up “great power competition” toward China.Despite this ambition, Biden’s presidency is framed by two separate Trump administrations and is often read as a failed interval in the Trump era. Given this, could contemporaries faithfully evaluate Biden’s condensed grand strategy? Can future observers do the same?A Liberal World Restored?: Grand Strategy Analysis and the Biden Administration presents an innovative approach to identify and assess grand strategy over short time spans by distilling major grand strategy concepts into five ideal types. Despite failures, Joe Biden oversaw a grand strategy that often aligned with expectations set by these criteria. Such results are nuanced. Biden followed grand strategy ideal types related particularly to US power and standing, but his performance on criteria like process and content was mixed.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-09
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666950878

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List of TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1 The Old World Ordera. Power Forward b. Assessing Biden’s Internationalism 1. Restoration Work 2. Not the Best, But Far from the Worst 3. Muddled Priorities c. Making the argument 1. Core contributions 2. Pressing Insight d. Liberal Disagreement 1. Liberal Dilemmas of Dominance 2. Nationalism and Restraint e. Median Convictions1. Biden’s Background2. Personnel f. In Sum Chapter 2 Quality Descriptiona. The State of Grand Strategy 1. Now What? 2. Grand Necessity 3. Foreign Policy Decision Processes and Outcome Bias b. Grand Strategy Analysis 1. Observation Tools 2. Ideal Consistency 3. Identifying Grand Strategy c. In Sum Chapter 3 Priorities: Early Goals and Agendas through 2021a. The Little thingsb. A Running Start1. Early Actions2. Guiding Principlesc. Old is New Again1. “A free and open indo-pacific”2. Democracy and Human Rights i. Dem summit3. The Cuban Test4. Summit for Democraciesd. Findings1. Process Quality: National Utility 2. Process Quality: Institutional Processes 3. Process Quality: Psychology and Decision Processes 4. Substance 5. Outcomes e. In SumChapter 4 End of the Beginning: The Afghanistan Withdrawal Decisiona. Ending an Era b. Decision Portfolio c. Form Over Function 1. The Review 2. The Power Sharing Proposal 3. The Final Decision d. Conventional Fallout e. Findings 1. Process Quality: National Utility 2. Process Quality: Institutional Processes 3. Process Quality: Psychology and Decision Processes 4. Substance 5. Outcomes f. In SumChapter 5 Technically Strategic: Techno-nationalism and the China Challengea. Intro1. Great Power Spat2. Techno-nationalism b. Cold War Deja Vu1. Team and Rhetoric2. Early Decisionsc. Trade in the USAd. Soft Where?e. Cyberf. Base Logicg. Findings1. Process Quality: National Utility 2. Process Quality: Institutional Processes 3. Process Quality: Psychology and Decision Processes 4. Substance 5. Outcomes h. In SumChapter 6 Geostrategic Habits: Responding to Russian Challengesa. Familiar Playbookb. Basic threats1. Pipeline Dreams2. Cyber prioritiesc. Impending War1. Red Flags2. Deterrent Hopes d. Cold War Play Book1. Pulling the Trigger2. Ukraine’s Long War3. Building Aid4. Domestic Dissent5. Isolating Russiae. Findings1. Process Quality: National Utility 2. Process Quality: Institutional Processes 3. Process Quality: Psychology and Decision Processes 4. Substance 5. Outcomes f. In SumChapter 7 Partial Restoration: Diplomat in Residencea. Summa Bona1. Pars Bona b. Liberal Internationalism, Nationalist Mood: Identifying Biden’s Grand Strategy 1. Dauntless Hope 2. Impersonal Identity c. Man of the Century: Assessing Biden’s Grand Strategy 1. Grading Grand Strategy 2. A Comparative Assessment 3. Extensions and Modifications d. Future Description e. Joe Biden’s Grand Strategy Appendix: On Structured Description BibliographyAbout the Author