John Lewis GADDIS, On Grand Strategy

Intelligence and Grand Strategy

Elegant strategies can be constructed without reference to intelligence but persuading policymakers to implement them without knowing what intelligence might have to say about their likely efficacy and unintended consequences would be exceedingly difficult. Intelligence-derived information and insights should not dictate the goals of grand strategy, but they should inform decisions about what t...

Grand Strategy and Global Health

Despite successes in global health to combat specific diseases, progress remains slow particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss two challenges in the global health landscape currently: the waning hegemony in global health governance and the recurrent pendulum swing between horizontal (health systems focused) to vertical (single-disease focused) programming by donors and agencies. Using Eth...

Grand Strategy and Self-Determination

The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University (LISD) convened a special seminar, “Grand Strategy and Self-Determination,” at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on November 19-20, 2014. This Liechtenstein Colloquium (LCM) commemorated the twenty-year anniversary of the Liechtenstein Initiative on the study of self-determin...

Circle Health is not like the John Lewis Partnership.

It is nonsense to describe Circle Health as a “John Lewis style social enterprise.”As theObserver has described in some detail, it is a loss making private business with financial arrangements that are far more complex than this article portrays. Staff shares amount to only 49% of the total number of shares, and the staff’s decision making powers are far less than even this suggests. It would h...

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