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# *America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition*

Published By Polity • 2022 

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August 18, 2022 2:30 - 4 PM EDT 

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Ali Wyne 

Senior Analyst, Eurasia Group

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Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

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Zack Cooper 

Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute

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Since the early years of the Trump administration, “great power competition” has been Washington’s go-to formula to describe its approach to foreign policy. The concept holds that Russia and China represent the biggest challenge to U.S. interests and demands a robust, competitive policy response. In a new book, Ali Wyne lays out a thoughtful critique of great power competition and proposes an alternative guiding framework for U.S. foreign policy that is proactive instead of reactive, mindful of the limits of Russian and Chinese power, and leaves greater room for great power cooperation on common threats. Please join us for a discussion with the author and a panel of experts.

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### *[America’s Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition](https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Great-Power-Opportunity-Revitalizing-Competition/dp/1509545549?tag=catoinstitute-20)*

It has become axiomatic to contend that U.S. foreign policy must adapt to an era of renewed “great-power competition.” The United States went on a quarter-century strategic detour after the Cold War, the argument goes, basking in triumphalism and getting bogged down in the Middle East. Now China and Russia are increasingly challenging its influence and undercutting the order it has led since 1945. How should it respond to these two formidable authoritarian powers?

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