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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Historian Ryan Irwin notes that no empire has expanded forever
Description: “The United States has denied the existence of its own empire,” says Ryan Irwin.Irwin is an associate professor of history at the University at Albany and has written books about the shifting world order.“Gordian Knot: Aparthied and the Unmaking of the Liberal World Order” explores how African independence altered the international system at the height of the Cold War, and “Vast External Realm: America and the Invention of the Free World” probes some of the assumptions that underlay American world power.Irwin spoke to The Enterprise on Friday, the day after the Russian...