Professor Chris Fettweis has spent the better part of his career studying and teaching about how great powers remain great powers and how hard they work to stay on top. He talks to Kelley and Dan this week about how dominant powers and empires get paranoid and worry about their reputations and credibility, and sometimes that skews their decision making skills. He discusses, too, his thoughts on the foreign policy blob and why we can't seem to have rational conversations over U.S. national interests. 

In the first segment, Dan & Kelley talk about the ongoing Nord Stream sabotage mystery and a new theory by the New York Times about who did it this week.

More from Chris Fettweis:

The Beliefs of the Blob  — Orbis, Volume 67, Issue 1, 2023

The Pursuit of Dominance: 2000 Years of Superpower Grand Strategy, Oxford University Press, December 2022.

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