The Epic Failures of US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Jeffrey Sachs)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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00:49 America’s missed opportunity to create a peaceful post-Cold-War world8:09 The moment US foreign policy went off track 14:19 Why didn’t the West invest in Russia’s post-Cold War recovery? 22:18 The foreign policy Blob’s continuity across presidential administrations 30:01 Has the American journalism gotten worse in recent decades?

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia, The End of Poverty, The Ages of Globalization). Recorded May 01, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.7	Hi, Jeff.
0:35.2	Hey, Bob. How are you?
0:36.5	I'm getting by. How are you? I'm getting by.
0:37.8	How are you?
0:38.7	About the same.
0:40.3	Sounds like we're going to have a good discussion.
0:42.7	I think we may be on the same wavelength.
0:44.9	Let me introduce us.
0:46.2	I'm Robert Wright of the Non-Zero newsletter.
0:49.4	And this is the Non-Zero podcast.
0:51.9	You're Jeffrey Sachs, economist at Columbia,
0:54.5	director of Columbia's Center for Sustainable Development.
0:58.6	You've been kind of prominently active in world affairs for some time now,
1:02.8	been a special advisor to three secretaries general of the UN,
1:08.1	including the current one.
1:09.3	And you've just been active in a lot of ways in issues of
1:13.8	international governance, global governance. Now, the last time we talked, and maybe the only
1:20.3	time we talked, was in 1989, I think. Oh, my God. Yes, believe it or not, you were alive then,
1:27.3	Jeff. I kind of remember those years. Oh, my God. Well, yes. Believe it or not, you were alive then, Jeff.
1:28.6	I kind of remember those years.
1:31.4	Well, I'm going to try to sharpen that memory.
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