Twilight Struggle: Cold War Lessons for US-China Today
May 7, 2022
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Hal Brands, a professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of 'The Twilight Struggle,' joins to discuss pivotal lessons from the Cold War that resonate today. He analyzes how the U.S. leveraged Soviet failings in the developing world and the critical role of technology during that era. Brands reflects on the cyclical nature of American confidence and doubt, compares today's Sinologists to Cold War Sovietologists, and provocatively asserts that only the instigator of the Ukraine war can halt it.
Hal Brands (@HalBrands), professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, is the author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today. Along with co-host Emily Jin @ew_jin) of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), we discuss:
How the US capitalized on Soviet heavy-handedness in the developing world
How technology impacted the broader trajectory of the Cold War
The US’s never-ending cycles of self-confidence and self-doubt
Today’s Sinologists versus Cold War Sovietologists
Why the only person who can stop the war in Ukraine is the one who started it