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Question: 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 "responsible stakeholder" in 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?
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A note on constructing this essay: My advice is to structure this essay very deliberately. Before you write, know where you are going with it. Start the introduction by articulating your overall answer - what is the main position you are arguing in this essay? Be able to state it in one sentence. Then, come up with 3-5 supporting arguments that incorporate the factors you're being asked to consider. In your essay, make one supporting argument at a time. Then, start a new section or paragraph before moving onto the next one. An outline can help you organize your thoughts before you start writing.
Make sure the essay is well organized, and that each paragraph fits into a bigger picture that makes your argument coherent. This should primarily reflect your own thoughts, while drawing on what you've learned in this module and throughout this course. Direct quotations should be used very sparingly, if at all. Where you need to cite another author's idea or evidence, paraphrase and use footnotes.