Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief. This is FP Live.

The Trump-Putin summit is like a geopolitical blockbuster movie. It's where all the attention is. The TV ratings will go through the roof.

But I'm pretty sure that in a week or so, the focus will be on what

Ukraine thinks and also how Europe backs it. Today, I've got a guest who's been gaming out a very

big question, how Europe should use all the money it's allocating towards defense.

But just one thing before we get to all of that. This one's a book

recommendation. I just finished reading Amitav Acharya's The Once and Future World Order. It's

quite provocative and if you can't find the time to read it, we'll link to an excerpt FP recently ran

from it.

Acharya teaches at American University,

and he makes a claim from the heart of Washington, D.C., that runs counter to conventional wisdom in America.

He says that everyone seems scared,

that if America retreats from its global role,

the world will enter a period of complete chaos,

that the last 80 years of relative peace and stability will disappear.

And he says, no.

He makes the point that while change is turbulent, global history actually shows that you don't

need one superpower to run the world,

that multipolarity and a confluence of different systems is in fact possible.

And he presents a stunning range of research going back millennia to Babylon, to ancient Greece and the Romans, and much more.

Mutual non-aggression, for example, is a principle that comes from ancient Egypt in a peace treaty

with Hatti.

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