The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies

Jul 17, 2026

Our former Rosenwald postdoc Eun A Jo, now Assistant Professor of Government at William & Mary, joined Jessica Chen Weiss, of Johns Hopkins and host Jeff Friedman, Professor of Government and faculty coordinator for the Rosenwald Postdocs, on the International Security: Quarterly Journal podcast to talk ideological differences in great power relations, and the limitations of the Cold War as an analogy for US-China relations.

Read here.