"If both China and Russia were liberal democracies, I don’t think we would be having conversations about great power competition. So I believe that regime type does matter, and the ideological dimension that comes with that regime type also plays a role in great power competition."
— Michael McFaul

January 1, 1970

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Non-fiction authors from the United StatesPolitical scientists from the United StatesDiplomats of the United StatesUnited States Ambassadors to Russia and the Soviet UnionPeople from Montana
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Sources

"Toward a “Grander Strategy of Containing Putin’s Russia”: Ambassador Michael McFaul on Engagement and Containment in a New Era of Great Power Competition" in The Yale Review of International Studies (June 2021)