American Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

A Lecture by Walter Russell Mead

April 5, 2005

This lecture was the third in the 2005 series of Thornton D. Hooper Lectures on American Strategy, established with a contribution from Bruce and Eileen Hooper on the occasion of FPRI’s 50th Anniversary.

Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy for the Council on Foreign Relations. His books include Special Providence; American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World and Power, Terror, Peace, and War. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Yorker.