How to Build an American Foreign Policy, With Michael Mandelbaum

The President's Inbox by Council on Foreign Relations

Apr 29, 202632:37News & Politics

This episode unpacks three enduring pillars that have defined U.S. foreign policy from the nation’s founding to today: ideology, economic statecraft, and democratic accountability. Host: James M. Lindsay , Mary and David...

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