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    1. Jacob T. Levy‏ @jtlevy 3 Oct 2021

      I’ve made this comment in print about one book and I’m soon going to make it about another out loud: I find it strange to encounter histories of the 20th century…

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    2. Jacob T. Levy‏ @jtlevy 3 Oct 2021

      in which there are Cold War liberals without a Cold War, in which Vietnam is a place but the USSR is not, in which there is anti-Communism including McCarthyism but no Communism.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021
      Replying to @jtlevy

      Honestly, I think American foreign policy of the last century & more is best seen as long project of global hegemony with the chief target being the South. The Cold War was a subset of that. It's telling that end of USSR led to no reduction of NATO, military budgets etc.

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    4. Jacob T. Levy‏ @jtlevy 3 Oct 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      That could be an interesting conclusion to argue for but as an unargued-for historiographical assumption it's something different. Also, US military spending fell by *half* as a % of GDP from the late 80s to the late 90s.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021
      Replying to @jtlevy

      Fair enough there was a decline in 1990s. But I'd insist fact that current spending is in ballpark with Cold War era shapes how we understand the past: that the project of USA hegemony over global south was far more important than ideological contest with USSR.

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        2. Daniel W. Drezner‏Verified account @dandrezner 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jtlevy

          I respect you Jeet but disagree vehemently with every single assertion in your tweet.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @dandrezner @jtlevy

          It's a controversial point! But I think a case can be made for it and it's an idea that one can see bubbling around in recentish scholarship.

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        2. Fehlermaker‏ @Fehlermaker 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jtlevy

          But even the discussion of that project is inflected with American exceptionalism. For every Suharto there is a Mengistu, for every Pinochet there is a Hafizullah Amin but the latter are ignored. The Soviets were as intent on dominating the global South as the Americans.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @Fehlermaker @jtlevy

          Oh, I agree Soviets (and to a lesser extent Chinese) had ambitions in global South. But I think they were far less effective in that arena and had a lesser reach.

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        1. SHAFIQUR RAHMAN‏ @leninrahman 3 Oct 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @jtlevy

          This is US military spending as % of GDP over last 70 yrs. One can argue whether GOT bump was going to happen anyway or it was just a response to events.pic.twitter.com/wdWD8XEtln

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