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Great Powers, High Table

Likewise, while neoconservatives and liberal interventionists remain influential they now face real competition in Washington and around the country. They’re losing their ability to set the terms of debate. The decline of the I-word is one symptom. The rise of the demand to end endless war is another.

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Stephen Wertheim

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Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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