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Power Problems • January 29, 2019 

# Great Power Competition, Part I 

Great Power competition is back. How will international relations change in an era when new actors are challenging the status quo. In Part I of our great power special, Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford are joined by Joshua Shifrinson, author of Rising Titans, Falling Giants, a book on great power rise and decline.

- [Joshua Shifrinson's bio](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joshua-shifrinson/)
- Joshua Shifrinson, [*Rising Titans, Falling Giants*](http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140107997660)
- "[The Return of Great Power Competition](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/return-great-power-competition)"
- David Edelstein, [*Over the Horizon*](http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100028390)
- Stacie Goddard, <a book="" www.cornellpress.cornell.edu="">*When Might Makes Right*</a>
- Paul MacDonald and Joseph Parent, [*Twilight of the Titans*](http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140107918690)

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##### [Joshua Shifrinson](/people/joshua-shifrinson)

Non-resident Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Associate Professor, University of Maryland

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##### [Emma Ashford](/people/emma-ashford)

Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

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##### [A. Trevor Thrall](/people/trevor-thrall)

Former Senior Fellow, Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute

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