Here's to a globalization-centric grand strategy for America

Americans suspect grand motives behind foreign policy. We sense our innate exceptionalism as the world's oldest and most successful multinational economic and political union, but we're reluctant about spreading that example, believing it smacks of imperialism.

As a result, most of America's strategic choices are driven by the decisions of others. Our preference for reaction over initiative now blinds us to the enormous strategic opportunity staring us in the face -- namely, the consolidation of globalization's rapid advance in the form of a radically expanded world middle class.

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