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Mar 2024
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A New U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for ...

COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
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Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether and where the United States should be less involved in the world. This episode is the first in a special The President’s Inbox series on U.S. grand strategy.   Mentioned on the Episode    S ... Show More
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