. @ForeignAffairs asked a broad pool of foreign policy experts, "Should US foreign policy focus on Great-Power competition?"

Eight experts from @QuincyInst shared their thoughts.

1/ https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ask-the-experts/2020-10-13/should-us-foreign-policy-focus-great-power-competition

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. @stephenwertheim, Deputy Director of Research & Policy at @QuincyInst, answered by highlighting how a great-power approach to foreign policy could be harmful to domestic health and security.

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. @tparsi, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of @QuincyInst, argued that a great power framework could be counterproductive to solving urgent global threats, like climate change, which do not have military solutions.

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President of @QuincyInst, Andrew Bacevich, stated that U.S. foreign policy should be primarily focused on enhancing "the well-being of the American people". A focus on great-power competition would be secondary, if at all necessary.

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. @QuincyInst's @segoddard supports great-power competition as an organizing principle, but says it's misinterpreted. Because the U.S. possesses unrivaled military power, foreign policy should emphasize competition through economic, technological, and diplomatic means.

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John Mearsheimer, a @QuincyInst Fellow, agreed with the prompt, citing the inextricable link between great power competition and "the survival of the state".

"If a state does not survive it cannot pursue any of its other goals," Mearsheimer points out.

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. @QuincyInst Fellows @samuelmoyn, @stephenWalt, and @Alden_Young expressed disagreement with @ForeignAffairs's prompt. @Alden_Young suggested focusing U.S. foreign policy through a cooperative lens, rather than a competitive one.

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