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28 October 2025

A Grand Strategy of Reciprocity

How to Build an Economic and Security Order That Works for America

Oren Cass

The United States has pursued two grand strategies in the 80 years since World War II. One was an extraordinary success: the policy of “containment” that guided American economic investments, foreign relations, and military deployments during the Cold War, which led to the defeat and collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the United States as the world’s lone superpower.

The same cannot be said, unfortunately, about the strategy adopted at the Cold War’s conclusion: an attempt to leverage superpower status to establish a “liberal world order” that Washington would secure and dominate. That strategy went by

OREN CASS is Founder and Chief Economist of American Compass and the editor of The New Conservatives: Restoring America’s Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry.More by Oren Cass

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