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Robert Kagan on America’s Future, Foreign Policy Realism, and the War in Ukraine
The Good Fight
Is There a Difference Between the State and the State?
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You can predict what kind of conflicts could happen in the future just by looking at structural features of geopartic. And so i guess it is your pushback that this assumes that states are all alike and that they all pursue the same kind of interest. Or is it that we need to look at how different forces within each state are competing for power, for influence or for their preferences? I think both of those things are true, but i am glad you brought up the latter because, of course, no nation is a unified collective. Every nation is a collection of competing interests. Foreign policy is either set by one of those interests because it's become dominant. For instance, in a monarchy
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