The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower

Michael Mandelbaum, Thomas Friedman in conversation

For more than 40 years, it has been an enormous privilege and pleasure to have followed the career and especially the thinking of Michael Mandelbaum—from his earliest writings on the virtues of Mutually Assured Destruction and The Nuclear Question as a catalyst for containment during the depths of the Cold War, which I later witnessed myself in reportin…