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🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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The U.S. and China may be the world’s current superpowers – but that doesn’t mean they can ignore other countries. Emma Ashford is a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, and she joins guest host John McCaa to discuss the implications of moving to a multipolarity, in which Russia, India and others hold increasing sway over global affairs. Her article “Making Multipolarity Work” was published by Foreign Affairs.
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| 0:47.3 | That's OMGS.com. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm John McKay, sitting in for Chris Boyd. The world has |
| 1:04.5 | changed much since the end of the Cold War. Every year, more of America's influence and |
| 1:09.4 | interests are challenged, and well, not just by China and Russia. |
| 1:13.7 | Experts call it a shift from a world of unipolarity to one of multipolarity. |
| 1:18.7 | What does that mean for our future, for other countries whose influence seems on the rise? |
| 1:24.4 | Emma Ashford is here to explain. |
| 1:26.1 | She is a foreign policy and international security expert |
| 1:28.9 | at the Nonpartisan Stimson Center. She's also affiliated with the Modern War Institute at West Point |
| 1:34.7 | and the Security Studies program at Georgetown. Emma just wrote Making Multipolarity Work, |
| 1:40.5 | how America should navigate a new global order for Foreign Affairs Magazine. |
| 1:45.3 | She joins us as Howard. Emma, welcome to think. |
| 1:48.2 | Thanks so much for having me, John. |
| 1:49.7 | Perhaps we should start with a definition. |
| 1:52.4 | When we talk about unipolarity or multipolarity, you're not just talking about a nation's military power, right? |
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