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The Criminal Russia Party

Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them

Maya: Bring Tears of Happiness

We have an excellent episode for you this week, as host Richard Aldous speaks with Ilya Yashin and Kadiyali Srivatsa.

First we welcome to the show Ilya Yashin, a Russian opposition activist and writer, and a leader of the liberal PARNAS party, who has recently written a report about Russia’s hybrid efforts at political control, especially with how it’s practiced on Ukraine. He discusses sanctions, Rex Tillerson, and the state of opposition politics in Russia today.

Then, Kadiyali M. Srivatsa, a doctor, inventor, and publisher who has worked in acute and intensive pediatric care in British hospitals, speaks with Richard about the dangers posed by antibiotic-resistant “superbugs.” He also introduces his free Dr. MAYA (Medical Advice You Access) app, which can help prevent pandemics by monitoring clusters of infections at the local level. Plus, tune in to learn why he suggests you might actually be better off in a dirty hospital than a hyper clean one.

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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force

Good evening, listeners! We have an excellent episode to start out the new year, as host Richard Aldous welcomes Eliot Cohen back to the program to discuss his new book.

Eliot Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and he’s also a regular columnist for TAI. He returns to the show to discuss his brand new book, The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force. It’s a fascinating conversation about a bracing book, and just as it’s worth your time to tune in this week to hear the discussion, it will be well worth your time picking up Cohen’s latest work.

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Donald Trump’s New World Order

Good evening, listeners! We have an excellent episode for you this week, as Niall Ferguson joins our host Richard Aldous to discuss Donald Trump’s foreign policy options.

Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and biographer of Henry Kissinger returns to the show to discuss what a Kissinger-inspired foreign policy strategy might look like.

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The Art of the Global Deal

Good evening, listeners! We have another excellent episode for you this week as host Richard Aldous has a fascinating conversation with Philip Zelikow about American foreign policy under Trump.

Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia, a lawyer, and former career diplomat, speaks about what options the new administration has for pursuing America’s foreign policy interests. He also takes a look at Rex Tillerson, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State and the CEO of Exxon Mobil, and explains how Tillerson’s lack of foreign policy experience at the government level is both an advantage and a disadvantage.

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The Pretty Successful Superpower

Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order

Good evening, listeners! We have another excellent episode for you this week as our host, Richard Aldous, welcomes Hal Brands to the show to talk about American grand strategy.

Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, and he joins the program to discuss American grand strategy in the post-Cold War era. He looks at the sorts of challenges Donald Trump will have to face in the foreign policy realm over the next four years, and what we might be able to expect of his administration.

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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Good evening, listeners! We have a special treat for you this week as host Richard Aldous welcomes Francis Fukuyama back to the show to discuss—who else?—Donald Trump.

Fukuyama describes this election as a watershed moment for our country, saying that Trump marks a break from the postwar consensus both in economic and foreign policy terms. He also looks at how these latest election results were informed by the political decay he described in his most recent book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, before discussing what he sees as an ongoing—and global—backlash against globalization.

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Trump: A World Deconstructed?

A New American Foreign Policy?

Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era

Good evening, listeners, and Happy Thanksgiving! We have another excellent episode for you this week, as our host Richard Aldous discusses what we can expect from a Trump Administration with Josef Joffe and Michael Mandelbaum.

First, Josef Joffe, a member of the TAI executive committee and professor of U.S. foreign policy at Stanford University, returns to the program to discuss the dangers of “economic and strategic isolationism” that seem the natural outcome of Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric.

Then, Michael Mandelbaum, the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era, looks at how President Trump could remake America’s role on the international stage in the post-World War II era.

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Good evening, listeners! We have an excellent episode for you this week, as host Richard Aldous speaks with Eliot A. Cohen about the challenges facing Trump’s transition team—and those whom that team is attempting to hire—before discussing the task ahead for liberal college campuses over the next four years with Artemis Seaford.

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Good evening, listeners. On this week’s episode, host Richard Aldous invites Walter Russell Mead, editor-at-large and director of The American Interest Online, to discuss—what else?—the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States last night.

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Good evening, listeners! We have an excellent episode for you this week, as host Richard Aldous speaks with Ben Judah about the nefarious global threat of kleptocracy, before discussing Scott Joplin’s musical legacy with John McWhorter.