Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security

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🗓️ 11 August 2008

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of Stanford University's Hoover Institution and New York University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about threats to U.S. security, particularly Iran. Bueno de Mesquita argues that Iran is of little danger to the United States. He then looks at what Iran has to gain and to lose by appearing to build a nuclear weapons program and actually using a nuclear weapon. He then goes on to examine the nature of other threats to the United States. The closing topic of the conversation is the peculiar incentives facing U.S. Presidents as their terms expire.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.5	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.8	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org.
0:33.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:38.2	My guest today is Bruce Plano de Mosquita, senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover
0:44.0	Institution, Professor of Political Science at NYU and Director of the Alexander Hamilton
0:50.2	Center at NYU and frequent guest here at Econ Talk.
0:55.6	Bruce, welcome back.
0:56.6	Thank you.
0:57.6	It's a pleasure to be back.
0:58.6	Our topic for today is danger and threats to the United States, and I want to start off
1:04.6	talking about Iran, which appears to be a threat to the United States, and its leader
1:11.4	Amanidinjad, which I might be pronouncing it remotely correctly, I'm sure, so correct
1:17.6	me if I'm not, Bruce, is he a threat to the United States?
1:22.3	Is he a dangerous man?
1:24.0	There seems to be a lot of feeling that he is, and it's something will be done about it
1:27.7	imminently.
1:28.7	Is there any truth to that?
1:31.4	I don't think so.
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