Power Problems

In a special crossover episode, Trevor and Emma sit down with the hosts of the Free Thoughts podcast for a wide‐​ranging discussion of how libertarians view foreign policy.

• Free Thoughts Podcast
• Emma Ashford, “Libertarianism, Restraint and the Bipartisan Future,” Texas National Security Review, November 30, 2018

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In the second half of our election special, Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford are joined by Jake Sullivan, a former senior advisor to Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, to discuss the future of foreign policy in the Democratic party.

• Jake Sullivan bio
• Dan Nexon, “Toward A Neo‐​Progressive Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs
• Bernie Sanders, “Building a Global Democratic Movement to Counter Authoritarianism,” Speech at SAIS
• Peter Beinart, “Shield of the Republic: A Democratic Foreign Policy for the Trump Age,” The Atlantic
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Bryan McGrath, Deputy Director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute, joins Trevor and Emma to discuss the evolution of conservative foreign policy during the Trump era.

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• Bryan McGrath bio
• Henry Nau, Conservative Internationalism (Princeton University Press 2015)
• Eliot Cohen, The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force (Basic Books 2018)
• Robert Kagan, The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World (Knopf 2018)

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Elizabeth Rosenberg, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security joins Trevor and Emma to discuss the Trump administration’s eclectic approach to sanctions policy, and the impact of looming Iran sanctions.

• Elizabeth Rosenberg bio
• Elizabeth Rosenberg, The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran, Foreign Affairs, October 10, 2018
• Jacob J. Lew and Richard Nephew, The Use and Misuse of Economic Statecraft, Foreign Affairs, October 15, 2018
• Emma Ashford, Not‐​So‐​Smart Sanctions, Foreign Affairs, January/​February 2016
• Cato Unbound, Do Economic Sanctions Work?, November 2014

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Bonus Episode! Harvard’s Steven Walt joins Emma Ashford and guest host Caroline Dorminey to discuss his new book, The Hell of Good Intentions, and why America’s foreign policy failures helped to elect Donald Trump.

• Stephen Walt bio
• Stephen Walt, The Hell of Good Intentions
• Cato Book Event, The Hell of Good Intentions
• Stephen Walt, The Donald vs. The Blob, Foreign Policy, May 16, 2018
• Thrall and Friedman, U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century — The Case for Restraint

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As Emma Ashford returns to the podcast, she and Trevor Thrall join Cato colleague John Glaser to review the Trump administration’s take on U.S. foreign policy in 2018.

• David E. Sangar, “North Korea’s Trump‐​era Strategy. Keep Making A‑Bombs, but Quietly,” New York Times, September 16, 2018
• Peter Harrell, “Is the US Using Sanctions Too Aggressively?,” Foreign Affairs, September 11, 2018
• Michael Hirsch, “John Bolton Is Living the Dream — for Now,” Foreign Policy, September 28, 2018
• Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,” Bloomberg Businessweek, October 4, 2018
• Michael Hirsch, “Surprise! Trump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy Could Be Working,” Politico, October 2018

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Patrick Porter joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss the debate over the past, present, and future of the liberal international order. Porter is a professor of international security and strategy at the University of Birmingham, UK and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He researches how power and ideas shape U.S. and U.K. defense and foreign policy, and how both shape conflicts both the United States and United Kingdom are involved in.

• Patrick Porter bio
• Patrick Porter, “A World Imagined: Nostalgia and Liberal Order,” June 2018
• Patrick Porter, “Why America’s Grand Strategy Has Not Changed: Power, Habit, and the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment,” International Security, May 4, 2018.
• “Liberal International Order: Past, Present, and Future,” Cato Event, September 20, 2018
• Bruce Jentleson, “The Post‐​Liberal International Order World: Some Core Characteristics,” Lawfare Blog, September 9, 2018
• Michael J. Mazarr, “The Real History of the Liberal Order: Neither Myth Nor Accident,” Foreign Affairs, August 7, 2018
• Rebecca Friedman Lissner and Mira Rapp‐​Hooper, “The Day After Trump: American Strategy for a New International Order,” The Washington Quarterly, June 2018
• Jake Sullivan, “The World After Trump: How the System Can Endure,” Foreign Affairs, March/​April 2018

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Vanda Felbab‐​Brown is a senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She is also the director of the Brookings project “Improving Global Drug Policy: Comparative Perspectives and UNGASS 2016” and co‐​director of “Reconstituting Local Orders.” She is an expert on international and internal conflicts and nontraditional security threats, including insurgency, organized crime, urban violence, and illicit economies.

• Vanda Felbab‐​Brown bio
• The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It
• World Wildlife Fund, “Illegal Wildlife Trade”
• U.S. Agency for International Development, “Combating Wildlife Trafficking”
• Jody Rosen, “Animal Traffic,” New York Times Style Magazine
• Charlote Epstein, “The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti‐​Whaling Discourse

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Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss developments in Iran and America’s Iran policy.

• Barbara Slavin bio
• Barbara Slavin, “US Policies Undercut ‘Support’ for ‘Iranian Voices’ ”
• Barbara Slavin, “Renewed Sanctions Will Hurt Iran’s Economy But U.S. Benefits Uncertain”
• Barbara Slavin, “Mullahs, Money, and Militias”
• Emma Ashford and John Glaser, “Unforced Error: The Risks of Confrontation with Iran”

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C. Christine Fair is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Peace and Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss the ongoing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and its implication on the Trump administration’s policy toward South Asia.

• C. Christine Fair’s bio
• International Crisis Group, “The Long Haul ahead for Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugee Crisis,” May 16, 2018
• Council on Foreign Affairs, “The Rohingya Crisis,” Backgrounder, April 20, 2018
• Krishnadev Calamur, “The Misunderstood Roots of Burma’s Rohingya Crisis,” The Atlantic, September 25, 2017
• Sahar Khan, “Ethnic Cleansing vs. Genocide,” Cato @ Liberty, November 29, 2017

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