US Grand Strategy & the Revenge of Geopolitics | Edward Luce

In Episode 477 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Edward Luce, columnist and US national editor at the Financial Times, about the history of American Grand Strategy and the revenge of geopolitics in a new age of multipolarity and great power competition.

Kofinas and Luce trace the decline of American grand strategy back to the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a more risk-averse, process-oriented era in US foreign policy. They then discuss how the Trump administration has upended many of the practices that defined that era, introducing new risks to America's policy in the Middle East and its relationships with European and Asian allies, before turning to the administration's China strategy ahead of the Trump-Xi Summit now less than a month away.

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00:00 Introduction
08:19 When the West Changed
09:44 1989 and the Hubris Hangover
12:43 History Never Ends
15:02 Kissinger Brzezinski Realism
17:45 Why Brzezinski Biography
19:41 Inside the Diaries
20:21 From Grand Strategy to Technocracy
24:38 Trump Process and the Blob
29:25 Biden Stagecraft Moments
31:08 Trump Speed And Warp
32:29 Ukraine Aid Too Slow
33:28 Iran Without Vetting
34:04 Defining Anti-Vax
36:17 COVID Trust Breakdown
36:53 Follow The Science Backlash
38:54 What Is The Strategy
40:57 Trump Doctrine Or Impulse
46:11 Markets And Iran Endgame
50:54 China Risks Ahead
53:40 Topics for the Second Hour

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Episode Recorded on 04/17/2026

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