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Power Problems • August 10, 2021 

# The “Restraint Coalition” and Strategy toward China 

Boston University’s Joshua Shifrinson weighs in on a new critique of the restraint school in U.S. foreign policy debates and explains why the strategy proposed by some liberal internationalists to confront a rising China — a strategy he terms “neo-primacy” — is bound to fail.

**Show Notes**

- [Joshua Shifrinson bio](https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joshua-shifrinson/)
- Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson, “[Neo-Primacy and the Pitfalls of US Strategy Toward China](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0163660X.2020.1849993?journalCode=rwaq20)” *The Washington Quarterly* 41, no. 4 (Winter 2019): pp. 65–83.
- Bruce W. Jettleson, “[Be Wary of China Threat Inflation](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/30/china-threat-inflation-united-states-soviet-union-cold-war/),” *Foreign Policy*, July 30, 2021.
- Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry, “[Misplaced Restraint: The Quincy Coalition Versus Liberal Internationalism](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2021.1956187),” *Survival* 63, no. 4 (2021): pp. 7–32.

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

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

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