Charles Hill (1) (1936–2021)
Auteur van Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order
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Charles Hill, a career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, is Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, and Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Yale University. He is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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Hill lists the literary works referenced at the beginning, which will certainly cause the reader to plus up their own reading list in the end. In fact, some that I’ve previously read, this book is driving me to reread because I missed a whole layer of commentary and imagination with regard to strategic and state issues I wasn’t sophisticated enough to pick up on!
Exploring and engaging with literature is essential for statecraft. We can’t just fill ourselves with histories, biographies, and analysis of crucial events. Two of the most brilliant military leaders I know, Admiral Jim Stavridis and General Jim Mattis, are prodigious readers who include a healthy portion of literature in their intellectual diets. One’s mind needs to be able to range beyond the chess board and the 32-pieces set before them. Beyond statecraft, Hill’s book is good reminder that literature is an exploratory space and will continue to be a place to confront challenging issues, both real and imagined.… (meer)