383 | Sean A. Mirski: How the USA's Rise to Regional Hegemony Rhymes with China's

The Realignment

Saager Enjeti, Technology, Policy, News, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, Politics, News Commentary, Public Policy, U.s. Politics, National Security, Economics

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Sean A. Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Sean discuss America's rise to regional hegemony after the Civil War, the anxieties and ambitions that shaped the country's foreign policy aims in the age of European imperialism, the cost of foreign interventions in the Western Hemisphere, and how the aims and means of China's regional ambitions will fundamentally shape the 21st century.

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0:00.0	Marshall here, welcome back to the Realignment.
0:02.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:07.6	My guest today, Sean Mirsky, is a lawyer and foreign policy analyst who has worked on national security issues across multiple US presidential administrations.
0:17.1	His new book out today, we may dominate the world, ambition, anxiety, and the rise of the American Colossus.
0:25.3	As we discussed during the episode, Sean sees the trillion dollar question this century as being,
0:30.3	how will the Asia Pacific region, the US, and the world accommodate the rise of the Chinese superpower?
0:37.3	The defining fact of the 20th century in this telling was the rise of the United States from a regional power to regional hegemon,
0:46.3	to an eventual superpower after the end of World War II.
0:50.5	So in this conversation and in the book, we're looking at how we can learn lessons from the history of the rise of America's bid for regional power to a lot of the questions that the international system is confronting with the rise of China today.
1:05.4	What said, hope you all enjoyed this conversation and a huge thank you to the foundation for making innovation for the point of the work of this podcast.
1:14.4	Sean Mirsky, welcome to the Realignment.
1:17.6	Pleasure to be here, Marshall. Thank you for having me.
1:19.9	Yeah, I'm really glad to speak with you.
1:22.0	So favorite question to ask any author of a work of history that has relevance and lessons for today.
1:29.1	Why this book, why right now, why is the story of how rising powers often lead to aggressive expansion? Why is that a relevant story right now?
1:40.2	So in one word, China, the multi million dollar question, I think for this century is going is will China rise peacefully?
1:47.8	Will it or will it be aggressive and expansionist?
1:51.1	And the historical record does not give a lot of optimism on this front.
1:54.5	I think if you look at rising powers throughout history, the one thing you see in common is that they tend to be aggressive and expansionist.
2:01.3	And by that, I mean, they pick fights with other great powers.
2:04.4	They invade and medallingly affairs of their neighbors.
2:08.3	And in general, they just try and dominate, you know, bigger and bigger slices of this world.
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