This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, March 16th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

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In the round table for the March edition of Cato Audio I spoke with Cato Vice President

Chris Preble about his new book for Libertarianism.org, peace, war, and liberty.

The book considers the past, present, and future of U.S. foreign policy.

This roundtable is a monthly staple of our Cato audio program, available wherever you get your

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History does not stand still and the United States with regard to its interactions

with countries around the world is long and checkered and embarrassing and triumphant and a lot of different things and of course everything leads to the next thing

with respect to foreign policy and a lot has changed very recently.

So we're talking with Chris Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies at

the Cato Institute who has authored a new book on behalf of Cato's

Libertarianism.org project, Peace, War, and Liberty, understanding US foreign

policy. Chris, your solo here on the Cato Audio Roundtable.

I am.

So to begin here, what are the most important elements to understand about foreign policy as understood by the founders and what they viewed

at that at those in those early years as the proper role of this new country in the world.

Right. So thanks for having me. Caleb, it's been a great project to work on with the folks of libertarianism and, you know, it's

given me an opportunity, I'm a historian by training and it's given me an opportunity to sort of

talk about US history and then relate it to the present day.

And if you go back and you look at how the founders thought about foreign policy, what they wrote, they were quite anxious that wars or the

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