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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke as they discuss O’Rourke’s remarkable book, Covert Regime Change.  US foreign policy is based heavily on trying to overthrow foreign governments, and O’Rourke’s account is a powerful and deeply scholarly account of America’s frequent resort to secretive regime-change operations. Her book focuses on the Cold War years (1947-1989), but Sachs and O’Rourke bring the issues up to the current day.   

O’Rourke’s highly insightful study offers a deep and rare look at the how’s and why’s of US foreign policy.  Together, Sachs and O’Rourke discuss why U.S. covert regime-change operations have rarely succeeded, but have often left a colossal mess in their wake.

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Footnotes:

• Regime Change
• American Involvement in Regime Change 
• Conspiracy Theories
• Foreign Electoral Intervention
• Kennan and Containment, 1947
• Political Assassinations 
• JFK and the Diem Coup
• List of Coups and Coup Attempts
• List of Revolutions and Rebellions
• John Mearsheimer
•  James Rodney Schlesinger
• Freedom on Information Act
• Obama Attempt to Overthrow Syria 

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