Bonus - The Era of Great Power Competition w/ Stacie Goddard (Preview)

Danny and Derek speak with Stacie Goddard, the Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, about her piece for Foreign Affairs, “The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition.” They discuss the “great powers” of today, the shift from liberal hegemony to great power competition, Trump’s disposal of multilateralism and Biden following suit, the era of the Concert of Europe, US postwar hegemony, the rhetoric around China that became entrenched during the Obama administration, the foreign policy blob’s aversion to tradeoffs, the framework of of coercion, competition, and collusion, financialized capitalism and declining societies, and more.