Dr. Ionut Popescu, a member of the department’s international relations faculty and an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, spoke to The Texas Standard on KUT, Austin’s NPR affiliate, about a recent article he published in Political Science Quarterly. In his piece, Popescu outlines the principles of a new American grand strategy. He argues that the theory of offensive realism — the idea that nations engage in aggressive acts of self-interest directly as a result of opportunity afforded by the chaos and instability prevalent in international politics — is better suited to the new era of geopolitical competition with China and Russia. This article represents the beginning of a second book project for Popescu, and it builds on his first book on U.S. foreign policy, Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2017.
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