Geopolitics Updated: The Strategy of Selective Engagement

Robert Art of Brandeis University considers America’s current options for a grand strategy. The choices are dominion, global collective security, regional collective security, cooperative security, containment, isolationism, and selective engagement. Art details the pros and cons of each grand strategy and offers his rationale for why selective engagement can best serve U.S. national interests: the strategy “is a hybrid, taking the good elements from its six competitors but avoiding their pitfalls.”