A Master Class on Realism and the Realist Sensibility
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"Great-power competition is basically a jobs program for Kennedy School graduates..."
"Realism and liberal internationalism are two faces of empire."
"Great-power competition is an idiom expressing a return to realism...offensive realism."
I had a great extended conversation with Matthew Specter on the pod, which was a master class on realism, full of memo…