A Belated Welcome to The Grand Strategy Blog

Readers who are interested in international affairs — “at the highest level of generality,” according to the title — would do well to check out The Grand Strategy Blog. Here is the blog’s self-description:

TGSB is a collaborative and non-partisan site dedicated to the study of international relations. The goal of this enterprise is to improve our understanding of major events and trends in international affairs through the application of grand strategic concepts, and to challenge and refine our grand strategic principles against the edge of those events and trends. Contributors to this site bring with them a range of ideas and experiences. Comments are encouraged.

It’s an excellent blog, with the kind of in-depth analysis of issues that I rarely find time to write. Recent posts have covered developments in Turkey, non-executive actors in international relations (full disclosure: that post says nice things about my post on Khulumani), the reasons for Benazir Bhutto’s popularity, and the Armenian genocide resolution. The contributors are Chad W., Daniel Simons, and Will Evans, all of whom are research associates at DC think tanks; Christopher Henderson, a lieutenant in the United States Air Force who is currently posted in Iraq; James Bray, currently a management trainee with a major FMCG company in London (I have no idea what “FMCG” stands for); Kieron Boyle, a strategy consultant based in London; and Zachary Clopton, an attorney who practices national security law at a DC firm.

I have no idea why the contributors are so coy about where they work, and a disturbing number of them have advanced degrees from Cambridge. (I guess that makes them the Footlights of the IR world…) But make sure to pay them a visit anyway.