Security studies

 an essay that addresses the following:

In his speech at John Hopkins University, Walter Russell Mead outlines 5 key components of U.S. Grand Strategy over the long term. Since he gave this presentation a decade ago, power in the international system has become increasingly diffuse. At the same time, the U.S. foreign policy community has largely come to reject the view of a rising China as a ¥sponsible stakeholder)n the existing global system, and increasingly sees it as a revisionist challenger to it. 

What does all this mean for U.S. grand strategy? Does Mead’s vision of U.S. grand strategy still represent the best way forward or do recent trends signal the failure of that strategy? Explain. In your response, consider: 

The rise of China and other revisionist challengers 

The diffusion of power and what this means for the ability of the U.S. to pursue what Kitchen calls “worldmaking” 

• If U.S. grand strategy is in need of revision, to what extent? A thorough overhaul of the grand strategic vision, of its ideological foundations, or does it simply updates that reflect the new global power structure? 

Read the following:Kitchen, Nicholas. Why American grand strategy has changed: international constraint, generational shift, and the return of realism. Global Affairs. 3 March 2020.note: reflect on this essay juxtaposed against what you just heard from Walter Russell Mead about American grand strategy Frans-Paul van der Putten, Jan Rood, and Minke Meijnders. Great Powers and Global Stability. Clingendael Monitor 2016. Netherlands Institute of International Relations. May 2016. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5referebces ^