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Power Problems episodes

April 07, 2020Amer-Exit?
Dan Nexon of Georgetown University joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to talk about his new book, Exit from Hegemony.
Show Notes:
Dan Nexon
Exit from Hegemony
Dan Nexon, "What if COVID-19 Is Our First Case of Global (Non)cooperation in a Post-hegemonic World?"
Power Problems: Great Power Competition, Part I | Power Problems: Great Power Competition, Part II
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39 min
March 24, 2020A Strategy for Cyberspace?
Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall are joined by Brandon Valeriano to discuss the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s official report.
Brandon Valeriano bio
Cyberspace Solarium Commission
Brandon Valeriano and Benjamin Jensen, "The Myth of the Cyber Offense: The Case for Restraint," Cato Institute Policy Analysis 862, January 15, 2019.
Brandon Valeriano, Benjamin Jensen, and Ryan C. Mannes, Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion (Oxford University Press, 2018)
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33 min
March 09, 2020OPEC+ or OPEC-?
Emma Ashford and John Glaser are joined by political scientist Ellen Wald to discuss how global oil markets interact with U.S. foreign policy.
Show Notes
Ellen Wald website
Event: The Iran Crisis and American Energy Security
Ellen Wald on Forbes.com
Rosemary Kelanic and Charles Glaser, Crude Strategy: Rethinking the U.S. Military Commitment to the Persian Gulf
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41 min
February 25, 2020Twitter in the Time of Trump
Join Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford as we discuss public engagement in the Trump era with Paul Poast, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Paul Poast bio
Paul Poast, "Twitter Threads,"
Tanisha M. Fazal and Paul Poast, "War Is Not Over: What the Optimists Get Wrong About Conflict." Foreign Affairs, November/December 2019
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35 min
February 11, 2020Greeted as Liberators? Regime Change and Reality
Join Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford as we discuss the failures and history of regime change with Ben Denison, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Benjamin Denison bio
Benjamin Denison, The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Failure of Regime-Change Operations," Policy Analysis 881
Benjamin Denison, "Regime Change Rarely Succeeds. When will the U.S. learn?," Washington Post, January 9, 2020
Christopher Preble, "Covert Wars, to What End?," War on the Rocks, August 7, 2019
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25 min
February 11, 2020 Greeted as Liberators? Regime Change and Reality
25 min
February 11, 2020 Greeted as Liberators? Regime Change and Reality
25 min
February 11, 2020 Greeted as Liberators? Regime Change and Reality
25 min
February 11, 2020 Greeted as Liberators? Regime Change and Reality
25 min
January 28, 2020The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy
Adam Mount, Senior Fellow and the Director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, joins Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford to discuss the future of progressive foreign policy.
Adam Mount bio
Adam Mount, “Principles for a Progressive Defense Policy, Texas National Security Review, December 2018
Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall, “The Battle Inside the Political Parties for the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy,” War on the Rocks, December 12, 2018
Trevor Thrall and Jordan Cohen, “The Democrats’ Search for a New Foreign Policy,” Cato.org, January 16, 2020
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40 min

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Power Problems is a bi-weekly podcast from the Cato Institute. Host John Glaser offers a skeptical take on U.S. foreign policy, and discusses today’s big questions in international security with…