Nuclear Weapons and American Grand Strategy. By Francis J. Gavin. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. 320p. $31.99 paper.

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-228
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Brookings Institution ◽  
American Grand Strategy

Think Tanks and the Washington Consensus on Hegemony

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Löfflmann
Keyword(s):  
Think Tanks ◽  
Grand Strategy ◽  
Washington Consensus ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Independent Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cooperative Security ◽  
Political Views ◽  
American Grand Strategy

This chapter investigates the grand strategy proposals by some of the leading think tanks operating in Washington DC, demonstrating how their nominally impartial, and independent research reveals a dominant, bipartisan neoconservative/liberal-internationalist consensus on hegemony that further underlines the intertextual and practical interconnection between research expertise, professional knowledge and policymaking. The think tanks examined in this chapter were selected to assess those formally independent research outputs with the greatest policy impact under the Obama presidency, while also reflecting the widest range of political views on American grand strategy. The chapter examines how organisations supporting deviant grand strategy discourses of libertarian restraint (Cato) and liberal-progressive cooperative security (CAP) have attempted to shift the public policy debate and how the stigma of isolationism underwrites a powerful status quo in Washington DC.

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