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Grand Strategies

Name: Grand Strategies
Author: Charles Hill

Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Charles Hill,

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Grand Strategies

Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Charles Hill,

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From “the man on whom nothing was lost,” a unique guide to the elements of statecraft, presented through spirited interpretations of classic literary works

“The international world of states and their modern system is a literary realm,” writes Charles Hill in this powerful work on the practice of international relations. “It is where the greatest issues of the human condition are played out.”

A distinguished lifelong diplomat and educator, Hill aims to revive the ancient tradition of statecraft as practiced by humane and broadly educated men and women. Through lucid and compelling discussions of classic literary works from Homer to Rushdie, Grand Strategies represents a merger of literature and international relations, inspired by the conviction that “a grand strategist . . . needs to be immersed in classic texts from Sun Tzu to Thucydides to George Kennan, to gain real-world experience through internships in the realms of statecraft, and to bring this learning and experience to bear on contemporary issues.”

This fascinating and engaging introduction to the basic concepts of the international order not only defines what it is to build a civil society through diplomacy, justice, and lawful governance but also describes how these ideas emerge from and reflect human nature.

Charles Hill, a career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, and Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale University. He lives in New Haven, CT.

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Publisher

Yale University Press

Year

2010

ISBN

9780300165937

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism History & Theory

Index

Literature

9

L

ook

at

Rembrandt’s 

Aristotle 

Contemplating 

the

Bust 

of

Homer. 

What 

is

he

contemplating? 

How

to

convey 

the

matters 

of

war

and

peace, 

of

strategy 

and

humanity, 

found 

in

Homer’s 

Iliad 

and

Odyssey 

to

Aristotle’s 

pupil 

Alexander. 

Homer’s 

face 

and

sightless 

eyes 

give 

no

clue. 

Aristotle’s 

gaze 

is

off

into 

space. 

His

right 

hand 

touches 

Homer’s 

head, 

while 

his

left 

ﬁngers 

the

chain 

that 

carries 

a

pendant 

engraved 

with 

the

head 

of

Alexander 

the

Great, 

whose 

expression 

we

cannot 

make 

out. 

We

can

imagine 

the

thoughts 

and

words 

of

Homer 

running 

like 

an

electric 

current 

up

to

and

through 

the

mind 

of

Aristotle, 

then 

down 

into 

the

mind 

and

actions 

of

the

conqueror 

of

the

world.

Aristotle 

would 

use

the

Iliad 

to

teach 

the

ﬁrst 

principle 

of

statecraft: 

diplomacy 

and

power 

are

indispensable 

and

must 

be

used, 

for

best 

effect, 

in

tandem. 

Diplomacy 

precedes 

the

state, 

and

with 

the

use

of

power 

may

create 

the

state. 

The

Iliad 

is

the

ﬁrst 

of

key

texts 

through 

which 

classical 

Athens 

and

Rome 

probed 

the

foundations 

of

international 

order.

1

CLASSICAL 

ORDERS

Contents
Works Discussed in This Book
Prologue: Books of the Red Chamber
1. Classical Orders
2. Creative Disorder
3. Sources of Modern World Order
4. What Kind of State?
5. Enlightenment: Critique of Diplomacy, State, and System
6. America: A New Idea
7. Disorder and War
8. The Imported State
9. The Writer and the State
Epilogue: Talleyrand and Everything Else
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index