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Power Problems • March 19, 2024 

# The Economics of Great Power War & Peace 

Dale Copeland, professor of international relations at the University of Virginia and author of the new book *A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy From the Revolution to the Rise of China*, talks about his “dynamic realism” theory of great power war and peace, emphasizing the critical causal role of future trade expectations. Copeland discusses case studies from the American Revolutionary War to the Spanish-American War and the beginnings of the Cold War and then applies his theory to U.S.-China relations across a range of policy areas, with important insights into how to avert a catastrophic war.

**Show Notes**

- Dale Copeland [bio](https://politics.virginia.edu/people/profile/dcc3a)
- [*A World Safe for Commerce*](https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172552/a-world-safe-for-commerce)
- [*Economic Interdependence and War*](https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691161594/economic-interdependence-and-war)
- [*The Origins of Major War*](https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801437502/the-origins-of-major-war/)

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Professor of International Relations, University of Virginia

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