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Welcome to another conversation about conflict on a very angry planet.

I am Jason Field.

And I'm Matthew Galt.

Joining us today actually is, we are really happy to have her.

Her name is Stacey Goddard.

She's a professor of political science and at Wellesley College. She wrote a terrific piece in foreign affairs. Can you just start off, Stacey, just sort of introduce

yourself a little bit and maybe just take us a little bit through what the article's all about.

Sure.

And first of all, Jason Matt, thank you so much for having me.

So I am a professor of political science at Wellesley College.

I teach international relations with a focus on international relations theory and international

security.

So the theory, the guns, the bombs, that type of stuff with a fair amount of focus, too, on international security. So the theory, the guns, the bombs, that type of stuff,

with a fair amount of focus, too, on international history, which kind of goes into the article. So for the last several years, I've been working on questions of great power competition

and international order, which has been, extremely relevant over the last decade,

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