The Pentagon’s Budgetary Time Bomb
The Stimson Center’s Senior Fellow Dan Grazier and Research Associate Julia Gledhill analyze U.S. defense spending and explain how the Pentagon is creating “a budgetary time bomb set to explode in the...
20 Aug 202440min
The Rising Costs of Overseas Military Bases
Renanah Joyce, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, and Brian Blankenship, Assistant Professor at the University of Miami, explain how great power competition for foreign military bases in th...
6 Aug 202458min
Security Dilemmas, Great Powers, & International Order
Charles Glaser, senior fellow at MIT’s Security Studies program and professor emeritus at George Washington University, discusses the dynamics of the security dilemma and international order. He explo...
22 Jul 202454min
Should America Let Europe Defend Itself?
Benjamin Friedman, policy director at Defense Priorities, argues that the United States should immediately begin withdrawing military forces from Europe to set the stage for European defense autonomy....
10 Jul 202441min
Ukraine, NATO, and the End of the War
Emma Ashford, senior fellow at the Stimson Center, discusses recent escalations in the Ukraine war, the costs to the United States and European partners of supporting Kyiv, the effect of the conflict ...
25 Jun 202432min
Why Security Assistance Fails
Rachel Metz, assistant professor of political science at George Washington University, explains why security assistance, one of the most ubiquitous programs in U.S. foreign policy, so often fails. She...
11 Jun 202446min
Classical Realism, Purpose, and the Rise of China
Jonathan Kirshner, professor of political science and international studies at Boston College, discusses his most recent book, An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics. Kirshner ...
28 Mai 202450min
The Trouble with US Support for Israel & Ukraine
Mark Hannah, senior fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs, the nonprofit housed at the Eurasia Group, and host of the None of the Above podcast, argues that President Biden has not used the lever...
14 Mai 202456min
