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Anne-Marie Slaughter

The CEO of the New America foundation and former State Department official on her new book about how networks are upending statecraft

You write in The Chessboard and the Web that national security today requires the use of networks, not just traditional rivalries and alliances, which you call “the chessboard.” How does that square with the rise of nationalism? If Hillary Clinton had been elected, my book would have been aligned with government policy. Instead, the chessboard is resurgent. Trump’s

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