Grand Strategy Research • Page 12 of 100 • Stimson Center

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To Build the World, Build the Strategy: Toward a Progressive US Foreign Policy

Progressives have big ideas for remaking the world but no convincing plan for getting there. We should hear them out regardless.

Jennifer Lind • Emma Ashford • Nevada Joan Lee

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An American Strategy for a Multipolar World

Washington must align ambitious ends with constrained means and proactively embrace an inevitable multipolar world

Zack Cooper • Emma Ashford • Nevada Joan Lee

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Addressing a Resurgent China: A New Mindset for Strategic Competition

Can either China or the U.S. “win” strategic competition?

Ali Wyne • Emma Ashford • Nevada Joan Lee

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After the Age of Trump: Rejecting Competition

Trump’s unpredictability weakens America; his successor should prioritize multilateral engagement over competition with China

Michael Brenes • Emma Ashford • Nevada Joan Lee

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Eat, Pray, Govern: The Search for Meaning in Democratic Foreign Policy

Democrats lost the 2024 election and now want foreign policy that sparks joy — turns out doing less abroad might actually mean more

Jeremy Shapiro • Emma Ashford • Nevada Joan Lee

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A Free World That Works

Has the Liberal International Order outlived its strategic purpose? How should the United States envision itself in the global systems of its own creation moving forward?

Michael Beckley • Emma Ashford • Nevada Joan Lee

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Back to the Future: The Case for Strengthening — Not Replacing — the Rules-Based Order

The liberal international order is well-suited for this era of strategic competition, and the United States should turn towards it once again

Michael Poznansky • Emma Ashford • Nevada Joan Lee

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Michael Poznansky: Renovating Liberal Order

Emma Ashford • Michael Poznansky