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Should America be the world's cop? What the experts say

  • Written by Dennis Jett, Professor of International Relations, Pennsylvania State University
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Editor’s note: As part of our collaboration with “Third Rail with OZY,” we asked scholars from a variety of disciplines to answer the question: “Should America be the world’s cop?”

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