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I'm Malcolm Gladwell. In my new audiobook, Revenge of the

Tipping Point, I'm returning to the subject of social epidemics and the dark side of contagious

phenomenon. Find revenge of the tipping point wherever you find audiobooks out now.

From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news. I'm Noah Feldman. As regular listeners know, this season of

deep background is all about power.

We've talked about power in a range of different forms already, and we'll continue to talk

about it in many, many different ways.

But one of the central areas in which power is exercised in our world is the area of international

affairs. Power gets

expressed by governments, it gets expressed by militaries, it gets expressed by international

organizations like the United Nations and the alphabet soup of other organizations that go

with it. All of these forms of power are also exercised by real human beings. Over the next

few weeks here on the show, we're going to be diving deep into the question of power in foreign

affairs and particularly the way that international power is changing in the current moment of historical time.

In order to do that, we're going to engage some of the world's leading thinkers on power in international affairs.

The first guest joining us in this series of conversations is the extraordinary foreign policy thinker and

expert Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Anne-Marie's accomplishments are so extraordinary there are almost too many to list.

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