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

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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The Failure of Restraint in Foreign Policy Debates

Americans culturally were just not set up to accept something that's called restraint as good. I think it was very hard for those arguments to get traction in the 1990s and 2000s. Over the last maybe five years or so, it became an easier sell to talk about restraining US power. The financial crisis, the war on tatters, failures, everybody,. I think policymakers started to accept that maybe we had to make some changes.

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