The Return of Great-Power Diplomacy: How Strategic Dealmaking Can Fortify American Power

After the end of the Cold War, the United States moved away from using negotiations to promote the national interest. For a time, it could get away with such negligence — but those days are over. With great-power war again a real possibility, the United States will need to rediscover diplomacy as a hard-nosed instrument of strategy so that Washington does not need to take the lead in confronting Beijing and Moscow simultaneously.

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