335 | America's Pacific Power Paradox and the Roots of Asia's Instability with Van Jackson
The Realignment
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The Pacific Power Paradox
I was a new academic at the time. The whole question was like, do we move back to DC to go serve on a Clinton presidency? And I started formulating critiques of Trump, like everybody else. But I started noticing that my critiques increasingly applied also to Obama and also to Bush. There's an immense amount of Reaganism in Trump's foreign policy. And so I was like, what, how can this be? This was the process of writing Pacific power paradox. It's really a critique about our foreign policy traditions in a certain sense.
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