A discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of President Trump’s foreign policy and the role of conservative nationalism in the past, present, and future of U.S. foreign policy.

Countering traditional notions of balance-of-power theory, smaller states have not joined together militarily to oppose the United States' rising power at the end of the Cold War, Chinese aggression in the South China Sea, or Russian offensives along its Western border.

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been persistent criticism, both inside and outside India, that the country lacks a considered grand strategy.