Dollar centrality was originally weaponized to help maintain global order. But as the United States increasingly exploits dollar centrality for purposes of national security, other countries will look to escape dollar power.
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Portraying the world as multipolar belies the complexity, significance, and extent of recent changes and could have disastrous policy consequence. In a multi-order world, relationships within orders are as important as relations between orders.
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A new risk assessment framework drawing on robust theory and empirical evidence from cognitive anthropology, social psychology, and linguistics.
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Modern governments partly derive legitimacy from the ability to foresee, assess, and address threats – from ‘natural’ to social/political, as well as their intersection.
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Ideas about the ‘decline’ of nations, empires, and cultures, grounded in the narrative of ancient history, pervade contemporary discussions of global politics.
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