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Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power and position, determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer from systemic vulnerabilities and trade whatever political power they have to a great power for economic assistance. If enough weak states support a particular great power, then that great power will become more powerful relative to competitors. This forms an international system fashioned by these transactions.

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1. Introduction
Part 1: Theory
2. Grand Strategies of States in Anarchy: Prestige and Self-Determination
3. Balance of World Systems and Neo-Empire
4. Systems-Creation and Competition

Part 2: Case Studies
5. The Global South and the Neo-Empires of the United States and China
6. Neo-Empires Under Construction: The European Union and Eurasian Union
Part 3: Cognitive Theory
7. States as Psychopaths, Theorists as Psychoanalysts: The Reason for War
8. Two Choices: War or Peace

9. Conclusion

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Hanna Samir Kassab is Assistant Professor at Northern Michigan University, USA.

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