Revenge of the Blob: A Texas National Security Review Panel

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🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week marked the launch of the Texas National Security Review, a new publication from the University of Texas and War on the Rocks. At the recent launch event of the journal, War on the Rocks editor-in-chief Ryan Evans moderated a conversation with Benjamin Wittes, Kori Schake, distinguished research fellow at the Hoover Institution and Nora Bensahel, defense policy analyst and Atlantic Council scholar. Panelists discussed how countries are responding to the Trump administration and what strategies they should consider in the future, the relationship between domestic and international order, and how we should feel about the state of American democracy ten months into the new administration.

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0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:30.3	What we are seeing is that we're in the midst of a dramatic revolution.
0:39.0	The things are changing, technology is changing, the economy is changing in dramatic ways.
0:45.4	People are scared and political leaders in both political parties have largely abdicated
0:51.6	their responsibility to give context to the nature of the change.
0:57.4	Again, Philip Seleco has written a lot about how the economy is changing and how political
1:01.4	leaders have failed to grab onto this.
1:04.0	Let me just offer that the Peterson Institute for International Trade did a survey that
1:11.3	only 15% of American jobs lost in the last 17 years have been lost to trade.
1:17.8	85% of them are lost to innovation and technology change.
1:22.5	And yet, both political parties had as a central component of their electoral platform
1:28.2	opposition to trade.
1:30.4	That's the measure of how we as elites and as experts have failed in our responsibility
1:38.2	to educate the public and to shape political party attitudes.
1:42.2	I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair Podcast October 28, 2017.
1:49.2	That's the voice of Corey Shockey of the Hoover Institution, former official in the National
1:55.0	Security Council, the Defense Department and the State Department, speaking the other
2:00.2	night at the launch event of the Texas National Security Journal.
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