What is a foreign policy of restraint? Are the Anglosphere and Western Hemisphere key to American interests? Will the transatlantic alliance endure? Do Russia or China pose substantial threats to the United States?

Time Stamps:

01:38 What is the restraint movement in US foreign policy?
06:28 Is military overextension a product of liberal internationalism?
12:35 Restraint as a function of generational turnover
14:39 What do restrainers want in positive terms?
16:49 Progressive and nationalist visions of restraint
19:27 What is the influence of your Scottish origins?
20:42 A comparison of the British and American empires
23:10 The Soviet and Russian threat?
26:52 Advancing the US national interest as a Scot
29:06 The Anglosphere
33:08 A hemispheric foreign policy
36:46 Europe in or out?
40:44 Ukraine
54:42 China
1:02:12 Multipolarity

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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