Grand strategy is policy for using all instruments of national power to advance security interests. Even small states and non-state actors can have grand strategies, even if they don't write about them or if their policymakers don't understand them very well. New technologies, economic globalization, and changes in the political fortunes of states have created a complex and uncertain threat environment in the 21st century. The proliferation of nuclear weapons to new actors, the development of autonomous conventional weapons, ubiquitous dependence on cyberspace and satellites, and global terrorism pose major challenges for the formulation of national security policy. This is a project-based course designed to give you some conceptual tools to quickly "field strip" a state or region with which you might be unfamiliar by using rough but time-tested concepts to flag potentially relevant dynamics and triangulate more detailed questions.