The Hidden Grand Strategy

<p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em>The Hidden Grand Strategy</em> offers a timely analytically rich examination of US grand strategy from the end of the Cold War to the present era of renewed great-power competition. Positioned at the intersection of theory and practice the book is designed for academic policy and general audiences interested in geopolitics security studies and contemporary history.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Isham's central contribution is to connect evolving <em>strategic paradigms</em> with concrete policy outcomes. He shows how seemingly abstract concepts-containment unipolarity the war on terror and great-power competition-have structured interagency decision-making and the integrated use of diplomatic military economic and information instruments of power.</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Key themes include:</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><ul><li><strong>Continuity and change in US strategy:</strong> how long-standing strategic traditions adapt to shifting geopolitical contexts and technological change while preserving core interests.</li><li><strong>Strategic narratives:</strong> the distinction between official publicly stated objectives and tacit often less visible goals that shape US conduct toward Russia and China.</li><li><strong>Institutional memory and foresight:</strong> how accumulated experience within the national security bureaucracy influences perceptions of new threats and opportunities.</li><li><strong>The management of rivalry:</strong> how post‑Cold‑War unipolarity gave way to a more contested order in which Washington blends cooperation competition and coercion in dealing with Moscow and Beijing.</li><li></li></ul><p class=ql-align-justify>For booksellers and librarians this title will sit comfortably alongside works by John Lewis Gaddis Hal Brands and other leading scholars of grand strategy. It is suitable for:</p><ul><li>Upper‑level undergraduate and postgraduate courses in international relations security and strategic studies</li><li>Policy professionals and think‑tank researchers</li><li>Journalists and informed general readers seeking a structured understanding of US-Russia-China dynamics</li></ul><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Written in accessible prose yet grounded in serious scholarship <em>The Hidden Grand Strategy</em> provides a valuable resource for collections on American foreign policy global security and twenty-first-century geopolitics.</p>