Delineating Progressive Grand Strategies

of the world. This is hardly a political program likely to win votes or repair the shattered domestic consensus necessary to sustain an effective foreign policy. Progressives may not like the conservative, militarist, ecologically destructive, and racist attitudes of much of the American public, but disapproval is not a transformative politics. In this respect, progressive grand strategy needs to begin at home and perhaps is best thought of as the declaratory foreign policy of a social movement. If so, its lack of political appeal beyond committed progressives is yet another dimension of its autism, while the real work of progressive strategic thought remains undone.