A clearly articulated, well-defined, and relatively stable grand strategy is supposed to allow the ship of state to steer a steady course through the roiling seas of global politics. However, the obstacles to formulating and implementing grand strategy are, by all accounts, imposing. emThe Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategyem addresses the conceptual and historical foundations, production, evolution, and future of grand strategy from a wide range of standpoints. The seven constituent sections present and critically examine the history of grand strategy, including beyond the West six distinct theoretical approaches to the subject the sources of grand strategy, ranging from geography and technology to domestic politics to individual psychology and culture the instruments of grand strategy's implementation, from military to economic to covert action political actors', including non-state actors', grand strategic choices the debatable merits of grand strategy, relative tobralternatives and