The End of the Post-Cold War Era?
Atlantic Council senior fellow Emma Ashford discusses how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has played out so far, what the broader implications for international security and the global economy will be, a...
8 Mar 202232min
Russia, Ukraine, and European Security
MIT professor Barry Posen joined the show to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, the origins of the conflict, what diplomatic approaches are available, and how US strategy is pushing China and Russia toget...
22 Feb 202250min
Too Many Secrets: How to Fix Overclassification
Should the United States classify as much information as it does? Yale Law School professor Oona A. Hathaway explains how the U.S. government overclassifies information, why incentives generate more s...
8 Feb 202246min
Public Choice and U.S. Grand Strategy
Richard Hanania argues that the existence of a consistent, top-down, overarching U.S. grand strategy is an illusion. Instead of a unitary actor adhering to a coherent strategy over time, the state is ...
25 Jan 202258min
How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis
Quincy Institute Senior Fellow Anatol Lieven discusses the origins of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Russia's strategic perspective, the mistakes of NATO enlargement, and why the Biden administratio...
11 Jan 202247min
Quantum Mind and Social Science
What do quantum mechanics have to do with international relations? Ohio State University professor Alexander Wendt lays out a theory of the physical world based on quantum effects and explains how it ...
28 Des 202151min
Competing for Status?
The desire for high status drives great powers’ foreign policies. Cambridge University professor Steven Ward discusses how status concerns motivate rising powers like China as well as declining powers...
14 Des 202136min
Nuclear Competition and MAD
Despite the popular Cold War concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD), the United States and Soviet Union engaged in risky, escalatory nuclear competition despite the costs and risks. University ...
30 Nov 202141min
