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Twilight Struggle: Cold War Lessons for US-China Today

May 7, 2022

01:25:37

Episode guests

Hal Brands

Highlights

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Episode notes

What's the Difference Between Self Confidence and the Soviets?

02:56

Why the Cold War?

01:42

Is There a Point at Which Means Can Corrupt Ends?

01:33

Introduction

3min

Why the Cold War?

2min

How Did You Go Theme by Theme?

1min

The Cold War and the Global Order - What's the Overlap?

5min

The Simplest Reason the Free World Survived Is That the Kremlin Left It No Choice

5min

What's the Difference Between Self Confidence and the Soviets?

3min

The Cold War and Its Effects on the United States

4min

Is There a Flipside to Everything?

6min

The National Security Council

4min

10.

Is There a Need for New Directorates at the National Security Council?

2min

11.

The Moral Sustainability of Political Warfare

4min

12.

The Cold War - The Problem With Containment

4min

13.

Is There a Point at Which Means Can Corrupt Ends?

2min

14.

Do You Have a Right to Oppose the U.S.?

2min

15.

What Was the C I A's Low Point During the Cold War?

1min

16.

How Did America Study the Soviet Union?

5min

17.

Is There a Return on Investment in Academics?

4min

18.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization - A Real Alliance With Integrated Command Structure

2min

19.

I Think It's Going to Take Americans Dying for Something Like That to Happen in the Domestic Contexts

2min

20.

Is the Cold War a Cold War?

2min

21.

What if Kennedy Is Not Killed in 19 63?

2min

22.

The Soviet Union in the Sixties

2min

23.

How in Your Time Rumming Around the Crates?

2min

24.

The Quality of Staff Work in the US Was Higher in the 19 Forties and Fifties Than It Is to Day

5min

25.

Soviet Foreign Policy in the Cold War

3min

26.

How to Give Folks Off Ramps

2min

27.

The Cold War and New History by John Gadi

4min

Hal Brands (@HalBrands), professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, is the author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today. Along with co-host Emily Jin @ew_jin) of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), we discuss: