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"Brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies and foreign policy practice to show that durable security prioritizes peace, democracy, and equality. By conceiving of grand strategy as worldmaking, American progressives see multiple ways of using foreign policy to make a more just and stable world"--
List of contents
Introduction; 1. Thinking differently about security; 2. liberal internationalism and its critics; 3. The Politics of progressivism; 4. Principles of progressive worldmaking; 5. Progressive pragmatism as a progressive grand strategy; 6. anti-hegemonism as a progressive grand strategy; 7. Peacemaking as a progressive grand strategy; 8. varieties of progressive political economy; 9. Political terrain and social democratic statecraft.
About the author
Van Jackson is a Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington and a Senior Research Scholar at Security in Context, where he co-directs the Multipolarity, Great-Power Competition, and the Global South project. A leading voice of progressive foreign policy thought, Jackson is also the author of Pacific Power Paradox (2023).
Summary
Brings the progressive worldview into conversation with security studies and foreign policy practice to show that durable security prioritizes peace, democracy, and equality. By conceiving of grand strategy as worldmaking, American progressives see multiple ways of using foreign policy to make a more just and stable world.
Foreword
This book maps the constellation of left-progressive foreign policy thought and conceptualizes grand strategy as worldmaking.
