Grand strategies of the Left : the foreign policy of progressive worldmaking / Van Jackson, Victoria University of Wellington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Van, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Progressivism (United States politics).

Right and left (Political science)--United States.

Right and left (Political science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Why are progressives often critical of US foreign policy and the national security state? What would a statecraft that pulls ideas from the American left look like? Grand Strategies of the Left brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies and foreign policy practice. It argues that American progressives think durable security will only come by prioritizing the interconnected conditions of peace, democracy, and equality. By conceiving of grand strategy as worldmaking, progressives see multiple ways of using foreign policy to make a more just and stable world. US statecraft - including defense policy - should be retooled not for primacy, endless power accumulation, or a political status quo that privileges elites, but rather to shape the context that gives rise to perpetual insecurity. Progressive worldmaking has its own risks and dilemmas but expands how we imagine what the world is and could be.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - Thinking differently about security error!

Chapter 2 - Liberal internationalism and its critics

Chapter 3 - The politics of progressivism

Chapter 4 - Principles of progressive worldmaking

Chapter 5 - Progressive pragmatism as a progressive grand strategy

Chapter 6 - Anti-hegemonism as a progressive grand strategy

Chapter 7 - Peacemaking as a progressive grand strategy

Chapter 8 - Varieties of progressive political economy

Chapter 9 - Political terrain and social democratic statecraft.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009002080 (ebook)

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