How States Think
It is commonplace for American leaders to describe their fiercest foreign adversaries as irrational, crazy, delusional, or illogical. In their new book, “How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign P...
22 Sep 20231h 10min
Chatter: Secret Intelligence and the British Royal Family with Rory Cormac
The British royal family and UK intelligence operations have been linked since Queen Victoria's time, involving everything from personal protection to matters of international intrigue to concerns abo...
21 Sep 20231h 15min
The Tyranny of the Minority with Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Democratic backsliding, a term that American political scientists usually use to describe the process by which other countries transition to autocracy, has come home. Freedom House’s Global Freedom In...
21 Sep 202350min
A Weaponized World Economy with Henry Farrell and Abe Newman
Economic warfare isn’t a new concept. Protectionist policies, asymmetrical trade agreements, currency wars—those are just a few examples of the economic levers states have long used to control outcome...
20 Sep 202356min
The Mechanisms for Cybersecurity Aid with Eugenia Lostri
This week, the UN General Assembly will meet in New York to discuss, among other things, international cooperation to improve global cyber security challenges. This meeting builds on national and inte...
19 Sep 202341min
Trump’s Presidential Immunity Defense with Saraphin Dhanani and Benjamin Wittes
Some time soon, former President Donald Trump is expected to file a motion in U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s courtroom to dismiss the Jan. 6 case against him based on some theory of presidential ...
18 Sep 202340min
Rational Security: The “We Need to Talk About Kevin ... Again” Edition
This week on Rational Security, with Scott traveling, Quinta and Alan were joined by Lawfare Senior Editor Molly Reynolds to break down the week’s big national security news stories, including:“What i...
17 Sep 202359min
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: An Update from Courthouses Around the Country
It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” our weekly video conversation with Lawfare editors and writers on the ongoing Trump trials. On Thursday afternoon, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Be...
16 Sep 20231h 25min
