Power Problems

In a special crossover episode, Emma sits down with the hosts of the Pop & Locke podcast and members of the Cato Foreign Policy team to explore how pop culture interacts with nuclear weapons, and why we should stop worrying and learn to love the bomb. 

• Pop and Locke Podcast: https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/pop-and-locke
• Eric Schlosser, The New Yorker, “Almost Everything in Dr. Strangelove was True.” 
• Eric Gomez and Caroline Dorminey, “America’s Nuclear Crossroads” 

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In the third of our series on the world after the coronavirus, we talk about great power politics and U.S.-China relations, with returning guest Joshua Shifrinson of Boston University. 

1.     Joshua Shifrinson Bio: https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/joshua-shifrinson/

2.     Joshua Shifrinson, International Security, “Partnership or Predation? How Rising States Contend With Declining Great Powers.” 

3.     Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig, Foreign Policy, “Is This The Beginning of a New Cold War with China?” 

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• Sen. Bernie Sanders, "Defund the Pentagon: The Liberal Case," Politico
• Andrew Lautz and Jonathan Bydlak, "Defund the Pentagon: The Conservative Case," Politico
• Eric Gomez, Lauren Sander, and Brandon Valeriano, "OCOMust Go," Defense One

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In the first of a three-part series, Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall explore what international relations might look like after coronavirus. Today’s guest is Dan Drezner, a professor at Tufts University, who joins them to talk about global economic relations. 

•   Daniel Drezner bio: https://fletcher.tufts.edu/people/daniel-drezner
•   Daniel Drezner, “There is No China Crisis,” Reason Magazine: https://reason.com/2020/04/25/there-is-no-china-crisis/
•   Daniel Drezner, “The Most Counterintuitive Prediction About World Politics and the Coronavirus,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/03/30/most-counterintuitive-prediction-about-world-politics-covid-19/
• Emma Ashford and Matthew Kroenig, “Will Trump’s Decision To Cut WHO Funding Accomplish Anything?” Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/17/will-trumps-decision-to-cut-who-funding-accomplish-anything/
• Christopher Preble, “How Will Coronavirus Change US National Security Strategy?” Responsible Statecraft: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/how-will-covid-19-change-us-national-security-strategy

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Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall chat with Peter Singer of New America about his new novel Burn In, and why fiction can be useful for our understanding of national security policy. 

• Peter Singer bio, https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/peter-warren-singer/
•  Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, https://www.burninbook.com/
• Surveillance Takes Wing: Privacy in the Age of Police Drones, Matthew Feeney, https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/surveillance-takes-wing-privacy-age-police-drones
• How Drones are Changing Warfare, Cato Unbound, https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/january-2012/how-drones-are-changing-warfare

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Eric Gomez and Christopher Preble join Emma Ashford to discuss their new paper, “Building a Modern Military,” and how COVID-19 will change the U.S. military.

• Eric Gomez bio: https://www.cato.org/people/eric-gomez
• Christopher Preble bio: https://www.cato.org/people/christopher-preble
• Building a Modern Military: https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/building-modern-military-force-meets-geopolitical-realities#citation

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Mark Hannah of the Eurasia Group Foundation joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to talk about how the world views America and American-style democracy in the age of COVID-19. 

• Mark Hannah bio: https://egfound.org/about/our-team
• Eurasia Group Foundation, Global Views of American Democracy (2020)
• Mark Hannah, “Stop Declaring War on a Virus,” War on the Rocks

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Alice Hunt Friend of the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to talk about the increasingly strained relations between civilian and military leaders in the Trump administration. 

• Alice Hunt Friend bio: https://www.csis.org/people/alice-hunt-friend
• This is What Was So Unusual About Making Capt. Bret Crozier Step Down: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/05/this-is-what-was-so-unusual-about-us-navy-making-captain-brett-crozier-step-down/ 
• The Military Can’t Save Us From Covid-19: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/04/14/military-cant-save-us-covid-19.html 

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• Greg Koblentz bio
• Greg Koblentz and Mike Hunzeker, "National Security in the Age of Pandemics," Defense One, April 3, 2020
• Gregory Koblentz, "Biosecurity Reconsidered: Calibrating Biological Threats and Responses," International Security, vol. 34, no. 4, Spring 2010
• Velibor Jakovleski, "Governance, in Crisis: What COVID-19 Means for the Present and Future of Global Governance," TheGlobal.com, April 8, 2020
• George Mason University: Biodefense Program, The Pandora Report

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