America, China and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics
The Lawfare Podcast
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What Happened in the United States in the 19 Nineties?
Realism has been the dominant american mode of conducting policy since the beginning. Why was it interrupted then? Was it just in the 19 nineties? Did it get going earlier? Was this just an aberrational moment for the united states? And what he 19 Nineties? I think it's very simple, jack. It had to do with uni polarity. Starting in roughly 19 90, is that we transitioned into a uni polar world where the united states was the only great power on the planet. So it's easy to think that realism no longer matters, and you can pursue a highly ideal, logical foreign policy. The liberal higemany did nothing but get us
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