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Jiang's phrase for how mid-tier states exploit great-power competition by bargaining with multiple sides rather than committing cleanly to one camp.
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maximum leverage
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...regime, that that's exactly what they'll do, that they will affect maximum leverage economically, knowing that that is actually their most effective weapon. So..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...regime, that that's exactly what they'll do, that they will affect maximum leverage economically, knowing that that is actually their most effective weapon. So..."
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"...themselves, um, in a way in which they can exact, um, maximum leverage from all parties. Because, if you think about it, these, um,..."
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"...regime, that that's exactly what they'll do, that they will affect maximum leverage economically, knowing that that is actually their most effective weapon. So..."
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"...game and what he needs to do in order to exercise maximum leverage over these points and he's able to articulate a way that..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang's through-line is that a declining empire does not retreat cleanly.
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Jiang treats the next Israel-Iran war not as another regional flare-up but as the real conflict the earlier 12-day war only rehearsed.
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