Stephen Rosen: US Foreign Policy, Great Power Competition, and the Rise of China

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🗓️ 12 January 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Harvard government professor Stephen Rosen assesses the current geopolitical environment, and considers America’s capacity to meet its foreign policy responsibilities and deter its adversaries. Detailing threats to America from a rising China, the success of bad actors in the Middle East, and other geopolitical turmoil, Rosen explains why America must compete in economic, political, and military arenas—and reflects on the deleterious consequences of American disengagement from the world.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome to Conversations. I'm very pleased to be joined again today by Steve Rosen, old friend, roommate, distinguished professor here at Harvard for quite a while now, right?
0:26.4	Since 1990.
0:27.4	Wow, almost three decades.
0:29.4	Winner, I believe, all three major teaching prizes at Harvard which is fantastic.
0:33.5	Congratulations.
0:34.5	Thank you.
0:35.5	That's well you should be.
0:36.5	And I think one of the courses you teach is called War in Politics?
0:39.2	Yes.
0:40.2	You've always taught that course actually and it's a popular course. So let's talk about that as we discuss
0:44.9	international relations and the 21st century in general but maybe we should
0:48.8	begin with wars that's still that seems like a Cold War type course you know and it
0:52.2	was I guess when you began at the Cold War type course, you know, and it was, I guess when you began it, the
0:53.3	the Cold War was ending, but...
0:54.3	Just war in politics, the right way to think about international relations.
0:57.6	Well, it's the right question to ask, especially now, because there hasn't been a big conventional war among great power since 1945.
1:06.5	This is really the longest period of peace defined in that way in modern history, maybe even in world history. I mean the Roman Empire
1:15.1	was literally at war all the time and the average period of peace was like 18 months.
1:20.7	So this is kind of an odd period. The question is maybe this is the end of history.
1:26.1	Maybe there's been a fundamental transformation. But you can't address that question unless you at least try to answer the question,
1:35.0	why is this long piece?
1:38.0	Could it break down?
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