Benjamin Leffel
Ph.D. student in Department of Sociology,University of California Irvine
Benjamin Leffel is a Ph.D. student in Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of California Irvine, and Director of Research in Tai Initiative.
Dec 18, 2017
Fading is the “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) defining of Cold War rivalries, as great power relations have marinated long enough in globalization to give way to a deep interdependence, one which lends itself more so to Mutually Assured Gains or “MAG”. Such is the case with U.S.-China relations, though the national-level of this relationship offers more of a precarious bag of mixed results.