Power Problems

Hilde Restad, a professor of International Relations at Bjorknes College in Oslo, Norway, joins us to discuss Trump’s foreign policy, nationalism, and the view from Europe.

• Hilde Restad bio
• Hilde Restad, American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World
• Cato Unbound, “The Clash of Civilizations?,” February 2017

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Matthew Goodman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to discuss Trump’s trade war with China.

• Matthew P. Goodman bio
• Matthew P. Goodman and Ely Ratner, “A Better Way to Challenge China on Trade: Trump’s Harmful Tariffs Aren’t the Answer,” Foreign Affairs, March 22, 2018
• Eswar Prasad, “Which country is better equipped to win a U.S.-China trade war?” Washington Post, August 9, 2019.

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Monica Toft, Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, joins us to discuss the growth in U.S. military interventions and the decline of diplomacy.

• Monica Toft bio
• Monica Toft, “The Dangerous Rise of Kinetic Diplomacy,” War on the Rocks, May 14, 2018
• The Military Intervention Project

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In our special live episode of Power Problems, Emma Ashford chats with Heather Hurlburt of New America about ongoing debates on the future of U.S. grand strategy.

• Heather Hurlburt bio
• Heather Hurlburt, “Making Sense of the Grand Strategy Debate,” Lawfare, June 7, 2019
• Emma Ashford, Hal Brands, Jasen Castillo, Kate Kizer, Rebecca Lissner, Jeremy Shapiro, and Joshua Shifrinson, “New Voices in Grand”
• Daniel Drezner, Mira Rapp‐​Hooper, Rebecca Lissner, Stephen Walt and Kori Schake, “Searching for a Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, May/​June 2019
• Ben Sasse, “The End of the End of History,” Texas National Security Review, February 2019
• Emma Ashford, “The Gentleman from Nebraska Misfires on Foreign Policy,” War on the Rocks, May 6, 2019
• Ganesh Sitaraman, “The Emergence of Progressive Foreign Policy,” War on the Rocks, April 15, 2019
• Colin Dueck, Elliot Abrams, Emma Ashford, John Fonte, Henry R. Nau, Nadia Schadlow, Kelley Vlahos, Dov Zakheim, “The Future of Conservative Foreign Policy,” Texas National Security Review, November 30, 2018
• Van Jackson, Heather Hurlburt, Adam Mount, Loren Schulman, Thomas Wright, “The Future of Progressive Foreign Policy,” Texas National Security Review, December 4, 2018
• The John Quincy Adams Society

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In part two of the focus on America’s Nuclear Crossroads, Emma Ashford and guest host Eric Gomez delve into the future of arms control agreements with Maggie Tennis of the Brookings Institute.

• Maggie Tennis bio
• America’s Nuclear Crossroads

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Todd Harrison from the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Emma Ashford and Trevor Thrall to discuss the proposed Space Force, war in space, and his chapter in the forthcoming Cato report America’s Nuclear Crossroads.

• Todd Harrison bio
• America’s Nuclear Crossroads
• Aerospace Security Project at CSIS, “Commanding Space: The Story Behind the Space Force
• Todd Harrison, “A Space Force is Worth the Price”

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With new protests in Sudan, ongoing conflict in Syria, and continued regional tensions, the legacies of the Arab Spring are everywhere in the Middle East. Peter Mandaville joins us to discuss.

• Peter Mandaville bio
• Kamron Bohkari and Peter Mandaville, The Muslim Brotherhood and American Muslims, Center for Global Policy, August 11, 2018
• Peter Mandaville and Shadi Hamid, “Islam as Statecraft: How Governments Use Religion in Foreign Policy,” Brookings Institute, November 2018

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What kind of foreign policy do Americans want? Not the one they have, apparently. To learn more Emma and Trevor chat with Peter Juul from the Center for American Progress about a new report from the Center for American Progress, “America Adrift: How the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Misses What Voters Really Want.”

• Peter Juul bio
• Center for American Progress, “America Adrift: How the U.S. Foreign Policy Debate Misses What Voters Really Want”
• Eurasia Group Foundation, “Worlds Apart: U.S. Foreign Policy and American Public Opinion”
• Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, “America Engaged: American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy”

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American presidents often praise U.S. foreign policy as a force for global freedom and liberty. We chat with Chris Preble about his new book, Peace, War, and Liberty.

• Christopher Preble bio
• Christopher Preble, Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy
• Free Thoughts/​Power Problems Crossover: “What do Libertarians Believe About Foreign Policy?”

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Arguments about the Iraq War loom large over pretty much every foreign policy debate in Washington. Does the Trump administration have similar intentions towards Iran? Lawrence Wilkerson joins us to discuss.

• Lawrence Wilkerson bio
• Lawrence Wilkerson, “I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again/​a>,” New York Times, February 5, 2018
• Dexter Filkins, John Bolton on the Warpath, New Yorker, May 6, 2019

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