Gaza, Realism, and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Emma Ashford)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 19 August 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:28 Emma’s forthcoming book on US grand strategy 4:40 Gaza, Ukraine, and Mearsheimer’s realism 13:38 The DC establishment’s dark view of world affairs 24:43 How the Gaza war hurts American interests—and America itself 30:10 Is the time ripe for realism and restraint? 36:25 National problems that require international cooperation 49:59 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Emma Ashford (Stimson Center, Foreign Policy). Recorded August 14, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast. |
| 0:28.8 | Hi, Emma. |
| 0:30.2 | Hey, Bob. |
| 0:31.3 | How you doing? |
| 0:32.6 | Not too bad, yeah, yourself. |
| 0:35.0 | Exactly the same, I would say. |
| 0:38.0 | Not complaining at any rate. |
| 0:39.9 | Let me introduce this on Robert Wright, publisher with Non-Zero Newsletter. |
| 0:43.3 | This is the Non-Zero podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | You're Emma Ashford. |
| 0:46.2 | You are now at the Stimson Center, unless I'm a little late with that. |
| 0:52.4 | But I think you're still there, right? |
| 0:53.9 | I am. Yep, Stimson, like the former Secretary of State. |
| 0:57.3 | Henry? |
| 0:58.2 | Yep. |
| 0:59.8 | Those are the days. |
| 1:01.3 | We're going to talk about that, our discontents with current foreign policy. |
| 1:05.3 | So you are a senior fellow with a reimagining U.S. |
| 1:08.4 | Grand Strategy Program at Stimson Center and a fellow at the |
| 1:13.2 | Modern War Institute at West Point. And you teach at the Security Studies Program of Georgetown University, |
| 1:22.7 | author of the book Oil, the State and War, the foreign policies of petro states, and also author of a forthcoming |
| 1:28.6 | book, I think, that's relevant to our discussion and that we'll talk about. So, as I just suggested, |
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