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Within the last decade, international leaders have become increasingly skeptical of the United States' capacity to maintain hegemony. This skepticism has become especially apparent with the recent election of Donald Trump. This paper will ask what grand strategy Trump has chosen? Faculty Mentor: Jean-Christophe Boucher Department: Political Science (Honours)

Book review: Doshi Roshi. 2021. The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order. The USA: Oxford University Press. 432 p.

Developing a coherent US worldview; cooperative security, balance between cooperation and unilateralism, military and atomic warfare strategy, counterproliferation, and US-India relations; 5 articles.

On 1 May 1919, the acting secretary of the Navy, Franklin D, Roosevelt, wrote the Secretary of State as follows: It is a fundemental principle that the foreign policy of our government is in the hands of the State Department….As it is upon our foreign policy that naval estimates must be based, it will be recognized that the Navy Departments has a vital interest in this question. It is probable that certain policies are of such immportance to our national interest that they must be defended at all cost. On the other hand certain policies are not, by the expense they would entail, justified if they lead to war.

The post-Cold War world politics presents impetus and propels states to update their International Relations thinking in many ways irrespective of their power status in the world politics. As Bangladesh does not elude the impetus created by the global politics of 21st century, this paper argues that formulating grand strategy can contribute to update International Relations thinking of Bangladesh. Once seemingly obsolescence idea has become the cynosure of scholars in the 21st century. Tracing the evolution of the idea of grand strategy, this paper illustrates how formulation of grand strategy has descended from great powers to middle powers and, therefore, argues that the idea has become applicable for all states. The article, therefore, explores the rationales of Bangladesh to have grand strategy in the 21st century. The article argues that as the kernel of grand strategy is to serve grand national interests; So, Bangladesh can have declared grand strategy to safeguard and augment enduring national interests of Bangladesh. This article attempts to fill up the knowledge gap of nonexistence of grand strategy scholarship in Bangladesh and contributes to update Bangladeshs International Relations thinking by applying it.

After suggesting six components of a comprehensive grand security strategy for China, the author explores trends towards neutralism in the ASEAN countries, China's independent foreign policy, spread of a new wave of democratization in the Asian-Pacific region (China, Taiwan, the Philippines and the USSR), prospects for a Pacific Economic Community, options for China's security, China's policies in Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, advantages of neo-socialism for China etc. (DÜI-Sen)