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Today I'm joined by Sean Miersky.

Sean is a lawyer in U.S. foreign policy scholar who has worked on national security issues across multiple U.S. presidential administrations.

He currently practices national security foreign relations and appellate law at Arnold and quarter case scholar LLP and is also a visiting scholar at the Hoover institution at Stanford University.

And today he's here to talk to us about his brand new upcoming book.

We may dominate the world ambition anxiety and the rise of the American colossus.

Sean Miersky, welcome to the program.

Pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me.

Yeah, absolutely.

And so before we kind of delve into the contents of the book, can you just kind of give our readers a bit of your background,

you know, how you got interested in foreign policy and then kind of dovetail into what makes you want to write this book?

Yeah. So the thing that originally got me, I think interested in foreign policy was actually the rise of China.

It became obvious to me, fairly early on, and this is not a particularly original insight, but that China's rise would be sort of the defining event of the 21st century, or at least that there's, you know, good money to be placed on that bet.

And so, you know, for a long time, I've kind of been interested in China and East Asian security affairs.

And it sort of occurred to me that the really important question, or at least one of the kind of really important questions, was whether China was going to rise peacefully or whether it was going to rise in an aggressive and expansionist way.

And the historical record has never been good on that question, rising powers tend to be aggressive and expansionist, but what do I mean?

They tend to pick fights with other great powers.

They tend to bully and otherwise meddle in the affairs of their neighbors.

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