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Is U.S. Foreign Policy Trying to Do Too Much?

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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Is Great Power Competition a Good Framing?

I think the probably consensus view in the American foreign policy community at least is that this is symptomatic of what I think is widely recognized as the kind of dominant condition of this geopolitical moment, which is great power competition. So it's NATO expansion is not just NATO expansion, right? It's the fact that almost every state of the post-Soviet bloc has been pulling away from Russia, pulling towards Europe and that that raises alarm bells in Moscow. The idea that Taiwan might make some concrete choice to shift away from China towards the West. That's where we're seeing the friction that can actually turn into conflict.

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