Sam Jackson (Syracuse): A New Manifest Destiny: A Calling to Lead the World. Eugene Gholz (Texas): Economic Impacts of Military Primacy: Why Alleged Economic Benefits are a Bad Argument for Activist Grand Strategy. Christian Reus-Smit (Queensland): Building the Liberal International Order: Locating American Agency. Henry Kissinger on the assembly of a new world order: The concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisis (and Benjamin Wallace-Wells on why Henry Kissinger never goes away). How to fix America's foreign policy: Anne-Marie Slaughter reviews World Order by Henry Kissinger. Could imperial history help US foreign policy makers? Marc-William Palen wonders. Manlio Graziano (Sorbonne): Would a More Catholic United States Better Cope with the Impending Geopolitical Shift of Power? Jan Wilkens (Hamburg): “Islam” and the Problem of Grand Narratives in IR Theory: Between Meta-Theories and Meaning in Context. Robert Lieber (Georgetown): Rhetoric or Reality? American Grand Strategy and the Contemporary Middle East. Jonathan Rynhold (Bar-Ilan): American Grand Strategy and the Contemporary Middle East. Niccolo Leo Caldararo (SFSU): Fukuyama, Democracy and the New World Order of ISIS. Steven A. Cook on why Washington can’t solve the identity crisis in Middle East nations. Should the U.S. bother responding to adversaries like Putin and ISIS? Scott Beauchamp interviews Barry Posen, author of Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, on why America doesn't need to lead the free world. Yes, America should be the world’s policeman: Bush did too much and Obama too little — but a “broken-windows” model of U.S. foreign policy can be just right. Jesse Lawson (NU): Who is He Talking to? An Introduction to Masculinist Rhetoric in Obama's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Daniel Drezner on the one book that Obama needs to read right now.
