Applying Cold War Lessons to Great Power Competition: Historian Hal Brands

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🗓️ 12 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Hal Brands, the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the author of the new book, "The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great Power Rivalry Today." Morell and Brands discuss the ways in which applied history can help policymakers make better-informed strategic decisions today. They move through a selection of Cold War-era lessons outlined by Brands in his book to inform the United States' approach to competition with Russia and China. They also discuss why some efforts - including the forging global partnerships and successfully projecting democratic values - may pose more of a challenge for the United States today than it did in decades past.

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0:00.0	This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel,
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0:12.4	Some of the stuff that's most important in long-term competition isn't necessarily the most visible or the sexiest.
0:23.6	History is really omnipresent in the making of policy.
0:28.1	I think what's really important, and I think what this book tries to do,
0:31.6	is to go back and really look at that history closely, because the alternative to using history well isn't not using history.
0:41.7	It's using history poorly.
0:43.4	And so the more we understand about the historical reference points that we look to and making sense of our own time,
0:50.0	the better will be.
0:51.1	Hal Brands is the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
1:02.8	He is the author of a number of books.
1:05.2	His most recent is The Twilight Struggle,
1:07.9	but the Cold War teaches us about great power rivalry today.
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