As an early release for upgraded subscribers, I wanted to share Part II of my conversation with Jonathan Kirshner about his new book, An Unwritten Future: Realism, Uncertainty, and World Politics. You can check out Part I here.
We get into:
How classical realists view China, and where that converges with a progressive perspective.
What Kirshner makes of “Thucydides’ Trap” arguments.
What offensive realism—and specifically John Mearsheimer’s version of it—gets wrong about international relations.
How we should think about the “national interest.”
Nerd out!
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