The Origins of US Interventionism (Robert Wright & Sean Mirski)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
0:33 Sean’s new book, We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus 3:52 China’s and Russia’s behavior today compared to America’s a century ago 14:00 If geopolitical realities don’t change, are great powers doomed to blow up the world? 21:12 Why did the US decide to dominate the western hemisphere? 28:19 American interventions from the Civil War to World War I 35:57 Why forceful US interventions in Latin America have become less common 44:45 Were the fears motivating the annexation of Hawaii based in reality? 54:54 Did the Spanish-American War have broad public support?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Sean Mirski (Hoover Institution, We May Dominate the World). Recorded June 22, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Your List of You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi, Sean. |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, Bob. |
| 0:36.0 | How you doing? |
| 0:37.2 | Hang it in there. How are you doing? Can't complain. Let me introduce this. Hi, Bob. How you doing? Hang it in there. |
| 0:38.2 | How are you doing? |
| 0:39.5 | Can't complain. |
| 0:40.7 | Let me introduce this. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero newsletter. |
| 0:44.1 | This is the non-zero podcast. |
| 0:47.9 | It appears both on YouTube, where you're encouraged to smash the like button |
| 0:52.4 | and on any podcast feed available, where you're encouraged to smash the like button and on any podcast feed available, |
| 0:57.1 | where you're encouraged to rate and review, especially if you're favorably inclined. |
| 1:01.1 | And you are, Sean Miersky, author of a brand new book. |
| 1:05.5 | I think this is going to show up the day that this podcast shows up if it goes according to plan because it's coming |
| 1:12.4 | out this Tuesday is that right that's exactly right big day it is eight years in the making |
| 1:19.8 | eight years well it shows it's it's it's very well research very well written very thorough |
| 1:25.0 | let me tell people what it is it's called called We May Dominate the World, Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus. |
| 1:34.2 | Let me also tell people a little more about you. Are you still a visiting scholar at the Hoover |
| 1:38.1 | Institution at Stanford University? I am. They keep extending it, so I'm not going to say no. |
| 1:43.9 | No, don't. And you previously served in the U.S. Defense Department under both Republican and Democratic administrations. |
| 1:55.6 | And you, what, have a master's degree from the University of Chicago in international relations or something? |
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