Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power and position, determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors. This forms an international system fashioned by these transactions.
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1. Introduction.- 2. Grand Strategies of States in Anarchy: Prestige and Self-Determination.- 3. Balance of World Systems and Neoempire.- 4. Systems-Creation and Competition.- 5. The Global South and the Neoempires of the United States and China.- 6. Neo Empires Under Construction: The European Union and Eurasian Union.- 7. States as Psychopaths; Theorists as Psychoanalysts: The Reason for War.- 8. Two Choices: War or Peace.- 9. Conclusion.
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Hanna Samir Kassab is Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA.