{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/3dd76634-7b1c-45c2-a9cf-2f6f96d4e0b4/68123a7bf3c711a5d01261c1?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Donald Trump Wants to Divide Up the World With His ‘Friends’","description":"<p><strong>Listen to this episode commercial free at</strong><a href=\"https://angryplanetpod.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> https://angryplanetpod.com</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Great power competition has gotten old for President Donald Trump—never one for a fair fight. He’s looking for a little great power collusion instead, dividing the world with his best buds, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. This kind of thing isn’t new, though, Stacie Goddard, a professor at Wellesley, tells us, in fact it’s the 1800s on repeat. Well, look how that turned out… World War I, anybody?</p><p><br></p><p>BTW, check out her <a href=\"https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/rise-and-fall-great-power-competition\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">terrific article</a> on this in Foreign Affairs magazine.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Welcome to the Concert of Europe</li><li>The post-Napoleon party</li><li>A taxonomy of aspirational Germans</li><li>Retvrn</li><li>Strong men, weak world</li><li>Government by Mafia</li><li>What becomes of the “middle powers”?</li><li>The era of aging dictators</li><li>The long breakdown</li><li>Empire without ickiness</li><li>Turns out might does, in fact, make right</li><li><br></li></ul><p><a href=\"https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/rise-and-fall-great-power-competition\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://ehne.fr/en/encyclopedia/themes/international-relations/organizing-international-system/concert-europe\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Concert of Europe</a></p>","author_name":"Matthew Gault and Jason Fields"}