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Oct 13
52m 11s

Can the U.S. Still Lead in Today’s World...

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE
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Join Aaron David Miller as he engages Jake Sullivan, Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School and former National Security Adviser to President Joe Biden, in a wide-ranging conversation on the challenges the United States confronts in a complicated world, on Carnegie Connects. 
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