Is There a Squandering of Opportunity in the US-Russia Relationship?

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The prevailing wisdom proved to be wrong about the post-Cold War period, he says. How much of that failed due to structural factors? That's a great question and I expect I won't be able to resist one day turning to it," John Avlon says. "I think we were very slow and still are in many areas" on foreign policy,. The Clinton administration was a kind of holiday from serious foreign policy for eight years; they were more worried about small interventions in Somalia and Haiti than they were about big things.

Richard Haass is a veteran American diplomat, statesman, and author. He is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served as Special Assistant to President George H. W. Bush and as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department in the administration of President George W. Bush. His most recent book is The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Richard Haass discuss the structural challenges, missed opportunities, and poor choices of the last thirty years; the arc of American foreign policy from Vietnam to Iraq; and how civic-minded Americans can effect positive change at a moment of crisis.

This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.

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