Hello from Paris everyone once again. It's me Usha Sahei the managing editor of Four on the Rocks

Here with an incredibly exciting episode with three of my new friends here in France

Can we go around and introduce ourselves? Manu, let's start with you.

Hello, I am Manuel Lafourne-AP-No,

I'm the head of the Paris Office of the European Council on Foreign Relations

and a senior policy fellow with this pan-European think tank.

Myyakandelle, I'm a historian, I work on youth foreign policy at Sorbonne Nouvel University and

right now I'm working at policy Planning at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs on US on the US and transatlantic relations.

I'm with Kessau. I'm working for the Institute of Strategic Research. I'm a professor of American history and I'm a senior fellow research

at the Institute for Strategic Research in Paris.

Wonderful.

It's wonderful to have you guys all here.

Thank you so much.

And in True War on the Rocks fashion,

some of us are drinking. In true French fashion we are

drinking a combination of a petite chavli which is a wine that I've come to like

a lot since I've been in France and some pariah because sparkling water is

is just as European and we like it just as much on a hot day.

So let's kick things off.

Maya, we're going to start with you because you've just published a fascinating new work on U.S US foreign policy and the shifting American role in the world.

So tell us a little bit about the thesis of your book and what you see as changing in

terms of America's role in the world and what you see as changing in terms of America's role in the world and what you see as not

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