Walter Russell Mead on Israel and American Foreign Policy

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Judaism, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, News

4.6 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Three years into the Trump Administration, how is America doing? What does Israel’s current political instability mean for its foreign policy? How should the rise of China affect how the U.S. thinks about projecting global power? It can be hard to penetrate the news cycle and think deeply about the many facets of politics and world affairs from a strategic point of view. But that’s exactly what Walter Russell Mead does week after week in the Wall Street Journal and as a scholar at the Hudson Institute and Bard College.

This week, Walter Russell Mead joins the Tikvah Podcast to discuss Israel, American foreign policy, Christian Zionism, and much more. This conversation is both broad and deep and covers everything from Israeli-Turkish relations and Chinese cyberwarfare to what Trump means for our political culture and the story of how Theodor Herzl met the Kaiser.

Musical selections in this podcast are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble, as well as the original Broadway cast recording of Fiddler on the Roof and “Above the Ocean” by Evan MacDonald.

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0:00.0	Three years into the Trump administration, how's the U.S. doing?
0:12.5	How does Israel's political instability relate to its foreign policy?
0:16.9	How should we think about China, energy, and technology?
0:20.6	It can be hard to penetrate the news cycle and think about world affairs from a larger strategic
0:26.4	point of view. Today's guest takes the news very seriously and shows us week after week
0:32.4	in his Wall Street Journal column what it looks like to think about culture, politics, and foreign affairs. In addition to his global view column, what it looks like to think about culture, politics, and foreign affairs.
0:39.4	In addition to his global view column at the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead is a professor
0:44.6	at Bard College, a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute, author of many books and essays,
0:50.3	he has for years provided deep historical perspective and sharp commentary on the
0:55.9	rise of nationalist and populist movements around the world. He's one of America's most
1:00.9	interesting political and cultural minds, and he is our guest on today's show. I'm your host,
1:06.5	Jonathan Silver. Welcome to the Tikva podcast. If you enjoy this conversation, you can subscribe
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1:36.2	One more thing before we begin, this conversation was recorded live in New York in the company
1:41.2	of members of the Tikva Society. If you'd like information about joining
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1:56.9	conversation with Walter Russell Mead. Walter Russell Mead, welcome to the Tikva podcast.
2:02.9	Thank you.
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