Ep. 1358 Foreign Policy Disasters: Why Isn't Anyone Held Responsible?
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, joins me to discuss the poor record of post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy. How has the foreign policy elite managed to isolate itself from real-world consequences for these failures? How can we insert sensible ideas into a conversation that always takes for granted the necessary for intervention and hegemony?
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1358. |
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| 0:34.0 | Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. I'm delighted to welcome back to the program, Stephen Walt, who is the Robert and Renee Belfor Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. We're going to be talking about his book, The Hell of Good Intentions, America's Foreign Policy Elite, and the Decline of U.S. primacy. Professor Walt serves on the editorial boards of foreign policy, |
| 0:56.5 | security studies, international relations, and the Journal of Cold War Studies. He's also taught at |
| 1:01.8 | Princeton and the University of Chicago. He's been a resident associate of the Carnegie |
| 1:06.1 | Endowment for Peace and was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution. |
| 1:12.7 | He's the author of several other books. |
| 1:20.4 | We talked about, I had him on in the past to talk about the Iran nuclear deal, and I recommend you give that one to listen. |
| 1:27.0 | I'll be linking to that on the show notes page, tomwoods.com slash 1358, so you can listen to that too. And I'd like to welcome Stephen Walt back to the show. |
| 1:30.3 | Professor Walt, thanks so much for being here. It's very nice to be talking with you again. |
| 1:34.3 | All right. These are the sorts of things that a lot of people who listen to my program want to say. |
| 1:39.9 | And you've said them with a tremendous amount of empirical support behind you. |
| 1:45.5 | And yet so much of what you're saying, it seems like it ought to be obvious to people and |
| 1:49.8 | is obvious to people who live in other countries. |
| 1:53.2 | The rest of the world more or less understands, I think, what you're talking about, about |
| 1:58.1 | the problems of liberal hegemony and American hegemony |
| 2:01.3 | and problems with the way the American foreign policy elite looks at the world. It seems like |
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