You know you are old when they start making period dramas about a decade when you were alive. One of the policy tensor’s guilty pleasures is watching a late Cold War-era espionage drama called The Americans. To someone with my interests, all that great power intrigue is irresistible; more so than usual because it is quite credible. It got me thinking about the following question: how does a state deter hostile covert actions by a great power adversary? And more generally, how does the balance of power operate in the shadows?
Fighting in the Shadows
Fighting in the Shadows
Fighting in the Shadows
You know you are old when they start making period dramas about a decade when you were alive. One of the policy tensor’s guilty pleasures is watching a late Cold War-era espionage drama called The Americans. To someone with my interests, all that great power intrigue is irresistible; more so than usual because it is quite credible. It got me thinking about the following question: how does a state deter hostile covert actions by a great power adversary? And more generally, how does the balance of power operate in the shadows?