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The Balkan wars led to a further inconsistency in U.S. policy. … America asked Europe to carry more of the defense burden, and then grew resentful when the EU did as asked.

— Charles A. Kupchan

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America must devise a grand strategy for the transition to a world of multiple power centers now, while it still has the luxury of doing so.

Economic interdependence does promote shared interests, but it also creates shared vulnerabilities. … In an adversial context, shared interests provide opportunities for exploitation, not mutual gain.

For better or worse, the struggle against terror may well intensify, rather than ameliorate, unilateralist and isolationist instincts.

The positive effects of globalization are inseparable from American power. … Globalization is Americanization.

Far from paving the way for a halcyon future of prosperity and stability, the digital era promises to usher in as profound a political and social transformation as that wrought by the arrival of the industrial age.

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