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America’s Great-Power Opportunity
Revitalizing US Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition
Ali Wyne
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Acknowledgments
This book would not exist without Colin Clarke, a former colleague at the RAND Corporation who generously shared my interest in great-power competition with Louise Knight at Polity. I hope I can repay his quiet kindness one day, and I promise to pay it forward. My next debt, of course, is to Louise. Patient, discerning, and encouraging, she is the editor every writer dreams of having. She commissioned three superb reviewers to critique my initial proposal and another three to critique my first draft. Their combined feedback was instrumental in helping me determine the book’s structure, crystallize its arguments, and define its tone. Inès Boxman kept me on schedule and offered detailed guidance at every step of the publication process. And Manuela Tecusan copy-edited my final draft with extraordinary rigor and care, strengthening both the clarity of my prose and the logic of my arguments.
Elmira Bayrasli played an invaluable
