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The West appears blind to its own hypocrisy and narrow interests in calling for a rules-based order.

Scott Simon speaks with Hal Brands, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, about how the U.S. should handle the emerging alliance between China and Russia.

In his first address to the UN Security Council since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week called on the 15-member body to reform itself or face dissolution. That ma…

Balance of power has also shifted over the past 25 years. so russia has recovered from its extreme post-cold war weakness. china has experienced growth really unlike anything we have seen in the modern world. so it is not entirely surprising as these countries that see the world differently than the united states start to become more powerful, they start to con contest the international system and the international system on multiple fronts at one. >> all right. the new book is "the twilight struggle: what the cold war teaches us about great power rivalry today." hal brands, thank you. and "th...

Let's ask though "the atlantic's" anne applebaum and hal brands. anne, i'm curious. yesterday we heard mitch mcconnell say he thought joe biden was moving in the right direction. i'm curious. do you agree? do you think the biden administration has been forward leaning enough? >> so, yes, i have been impressed by the biden administration's willingness to talk very loudly and publicly about this. they started doing it a couple of months ago. they got some intelligence warning them of some kind of major invasion being planned for ukraine. they've alerted european allies and they've been very up f...