Grand strategy refers to an overall blueprint guiding a state's foreign policy in relations with multiple other actors. Grand strategy organizes a state's foreign policy by interconnecting and matching objectives (gains in capabilities and influence, security, status, extension of values, etc.) with means, and with challenges. In this respect, This books aims to classify great powers' grand strategies into archetypes: respectively, grand strategies employed by rising powers, grand strategies of status quo powers, and grand strategies of declining powers. Among the great powers whose strategies the author discusses: can be counted France, Great Britain, Prussia/Germany, Austria, Russia/the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Italy, the United States, Japan and China. | The Grand Strategies Of Great Powers by Tudor A. Onea, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters