The "Restraint Coalition" and Strategy toward China
Boston University’s Joshua Shifrinson weighs in on a new critique of the restraint school in U.S. foreign policy debates and explains why the strategy proposed by some liberal internationalists to con...
10 Aug 202137min
Foreign Policy Malpractice Since 9/11
9/11 set the course for U.S. national security policy in the 21st century, often with counterproductive results. Cato Institute senior fellow Justin Logan explains how post-9/11 foreign policy went of...
27 Juli 202150min
Afghanistan: An End to the War or a Shift in Tactics?
As the U.S. military withdraws from Afghanistan, the Biden administration is retaining some presence nearby. Tactics are shifting, but U.S. intervention looks far from over. Cato research fellow Sahar...
13 Juli 202129min
Realpolitik and Diplomacy: Are States Rational?
Many realists assume that national leaders are rational. But are they? University of Southern California professor Brian Rathbun draws on classical realism to argue that realpolitik is a demanding psy...
29 Juni 202141min
The Limits of Force in Israel-Palestine
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has erupted again, but the politics in both Israel and the United States on this longstanding issue appear to be undergoing change. Jeremy Pressman, a political scient...
15 Juni 202154min
America's Oil Myths
One longstanding predicate of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East -- that America's military presence in the Persian Gulf region protects the free flow of oil -- is false. That is according to Univ...
1 Juni 20211h 3min
Public Opinion & U.S. Foreign Policy
The renewed debate in Washington over U.S. foreign policy reflects changing attitudes in public opinion. George Mason University professor and Cato Senior Fellow A. Trevor Thrall discusses how generat...
18 Maj 202139min
Abetting State Violence
Jessica Trisko Darden joins John Glaser to discuss how U.S. foreign aid tends to support state violence and coercion. Economic and military aid often helps undemocratic regimes secure and sustain thei...
4 Maj 202139min
