Ep 103: Sean Mirski on American Hegemony

Sean Mirski, author of We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus, joins the show to talk about how the United States came to its global position and China’s attempts to match it.
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    •    01:40 Introduction 
    •    2:22 An accidental project
    •    6:41 The view from Washington 
    •    13:18 American paranoia
    •    16:43 Post Civil War Mexico
    •    22:04 Smedley Butler
    •    24:46 The problem of order
    •   31:12 After WWI
    •   33:04 Strategic vulnerabilities
    •    38:32 Regional hegemony
    •    44:51 A desire to dominate
    •    48:36 A lesson and a warning 

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