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And we're very excited to welcome back to the podcast today. Shadi Hamid. Shadi is a columnist at the Washington Post,

and he's also the author of the recently released The Case for American Power. Shadi,

thank you so much for joining us yet again. Thanks so much for having me.

So this book is, as it says, the case for American power.

But before we get into that, oh, I first looked at the blurbs.

This is like the Lib Pantheon up here.

Noah Feldman, Francis Fukuyama, Michael McFall, friend of the pod, and Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Oh, my God. It's the fearsome of the Lib foreign policy establishment.

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