America’s Foreign Policy is Broken, Here’s How it Got That Way
Angry Planet8 Nov 2018

America’s Foreign Policy is Broken, Here’s How it Got That Way

America is at war all over the planet and the American public doesn’t seem to care. Since the end of the Cold War, Americans have largely checked out of foreign policy concerns. Today on War College, American foreign policy analyst Stephen M. Walt walks us through how we got here, and how to fix it.


Walt’s new book is The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy.

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