Oil & Great Power Politics
Access to oil is so vital that powerful countries can take extraordinary measures to protect themselves from ever being vulnerable to oil coercion. Ro...
Power Problems
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Power Problems is a bi-weekly podcast from the Cato Institute. Hosts Trevor Thrall and Emma Ashford offer a skeptical take on U.S. foreign policy, and discuss today’s big questions in international security with guests from across the political spectrum. Podcast Hashtag: #FPPowerProblems.
Bad Friends: America’s Middle East Allies
President Joe Biden claimed he would defend human rights around the world, but his track record paints a different picture, especially in the Middle E...
The Battle of Ideas over America's Role in the World
Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. He discusses 20 years of failed post-9/11 national security policies, the str...
A Distracted Grand Strategy
U.S. Naval War College professor Peter Dombrowski argues that the most pressing problems Americans face are internal domestic challenges and non-milit...
Cutting Through the Noise on Afghanistan Withdrawal
The chaos that accompanied the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan does not negate the wisdom of bringing the war to an end, despite protestatio...
How to Actually End Endless Wars
The now-popular "ending endless wars" slogan has generated more political rhetoric than real policy changes. David Sterman, senior policy analyst at N...
The "Restraint Coalition" and Strategy toward China
Boston University’s Joshua Shifrinson weighs in on a new critique of the restraint school in U.S. foreign policy debates and explains why the strategy...
Foreign Policy Malpractice Since 9/11
9/11 set the course for U.S. national security policy in the 21st century, often with counterproductive results. Cato Institute senior fellow Justin L...
Afghanistan: An End to the War or a Shift in Tactics?
As the U.S. military withdraws from Afghanistan, the Biden administration is retaining some presence nearby. Tactics are shifting, but U.S. intervent...
Realpolitik and Diplomacy: Are States Rational?
Many realists assume that national leaders are rational. But are they? University of Southern California professor Brian Rathbun draws on classical re...