11 - The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies
What role do ideological differences play in great power relations? Many frame current U.S.-China ideological competition as analogous to th...
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IS: Off the Page
IS: Off the Page brings policymakers, academics, and practitioners into conversation about security issues of global importance. In each episode, we will discuss a recent piece of research p...
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20 of 28 episodes10 – Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers
Right-wing populist leaders love soldiers (especially fallen ones) and the trappings of military life. But their love affair with the milita...
9 – The Rules-Based International Order
Guests: Marc Trachtenberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. International Security Ar...
8 – Airpower and the Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia
Guests: Nicholas Anderson is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Daryl P...
7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China
Guests: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. International Secur...
6 – Putin’s Preventive War
Guests: Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the...
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint
Guests: Miranda Priebe is a senior political scientist and director of the Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy at RAND. John Schuessl...
4 – Do Autocrats Need a Foreign Enemy?
Guests: Henry Hale is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Adam Lenton is Assistant Pro...
3 – Fatalism and War
Guests: Dominic Tierney is Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. International Security Article: Dominic Tierne...
2 - Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Guests: Şener Aktürk is Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye. International Security Article: Şener A...
1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?
Guest: Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University. International Security Artic...
17-The Little-Known History of Radiological Weapons
Guests: Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Mid...
16-Concealing and Revealing Clandestine Military Capabilities
Guests: Austin Long is Vice Deputy Director for Strategic Stability in the Joint Staff J5 at the U.S. Department of Defense. Ernest J. Herol...
15-Technology, Diplomacy, and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Guests: Christopher Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreig...
14-Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Cheater’s Dilemma
Guests: Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, where she also directs the Oslo Nuclear Projec...
13-What Allies Want: A Look at East Asia
Guests: Iain D. Henry is a Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Abraham M. Denmark is...
12-Liberal Values, Material Interests, and the Inconsistencies of U.S. Democracy Promotion
Guests: Arman Grigoryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University. Sarah Sewall is a non-r...
11-Rethinking the Norms and Practices of U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Guests: Risa Brooks is the Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University and a non-resident Senior Associa...
10-Great Power Politics in the Middle East and Arab-Israeli Conflict—Détente to 2020
Guests: Galen Jackson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams College. Aaron David Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Carne...
09-U.S. Electoral Constraints, Military Strategy, and the Iraq War
Guests Andrew Payne is the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Emma Sky is the director of t...