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EI Weekly Listen—Cool war by Noah Feldman

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How to Manage a Cool War World

Both sides should use the leverage of their mutually beneficial economic relationship to make fighting less attractive. Nations obey the decisions of w t o tribunals out of straightforward self interest. This is not a route to world government, utopian or distopic, but rather a model of self interested rule of law in an important economic realm. Global corporations will have to develop new national allegiances as part of a cool war world. They can also provide incentives to discourage violence and associated economic losses. Human rights, long treated as a rhetorical prop in the struggle between great powers, will still be used as a tool. But over time, respecting rights may come to be in china's interests with major consequences for

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