Power Problems

As Emma Ashford returns to the podcast, she and Trevor Thrall join Cato colleague John Glaser to review the Trump administration’s take on U.S. foreign policy in 2018.David E. Sangar, “North Korea’s Trump‐​era Strategy. Keep Making A‑Bombs, but Quietly,” New York Times, September 16, 2018Peter Harrell, “Is the US Using Sanctions Too Aggressively?,” Foreign Affairs, September 11, 2018Michael Hirsch, “John Bolton Is Living the Dream — for Now,” Foreign Policy, September 28, 2018Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley, “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,” Bloomberg Businessweek, October 4, 2018Michael Hirsch, “Surprise! Trump’s Disruptive Foreign Policy Could Be Working,” Politico, October 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Patrick Porter joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss the debate over the past, present, and future of the liberal international order. Porter is a professor of international security and strategy at the University of Birmingham, UK and a Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London. He researches how power and ideas shape U.S. and U.K. defense and foreign policy, and how both shape conflicts both the United States and United Kingdom are involved in.Patrick Porter bioPatrick Porter, “A World Imagined: Nostalgia and Liberal Order,” June 2018Patrick Porter, “Why America’s Grand Strategy Has Not Changed: Power, Habit, and the U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment,” International Security, May 4, 2018.“Liberal International Order: Past, Present, and Future,” Cato Event, September 20, 2018Bruce Jentleson, “The Post‐​Liberal International Order World: Some Core Characteristics,” Lawfare Blog, September 9, 2018Michael J. Mazarr, “The Real History of the Liberal Order: Neither Myth Nor Accident,” Foreign Affairs, August 7, 2018Rebecca Friedman Lissner and Mira Rapp‐​Hooper, “The Day After Trump: American Strategy for a New International Order,” The Washington Quarterly, June 2018Jake Sullivan, “The World After Trump: How the System Can Endure,” Foreign Affairs, March/​April 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vanda Felbab‐​Brown is a senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She is also the director of the Brookings project “Improving Global Drug Policy: Comparative Perspectives and UNGASS 2016” and co‐​director of “Reconstituting Local Orders.” She is an expert on international and internal conflicts and nontraditional security threats, including insurgency, organized crime, urban violence, and illicit economies.Vanda Felbab‐​Brown bioThe Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter ItWorld Wildlife Fund, “Illegal Wildlife Trade”U.S. Agency for International Development, “Combating Wildlife Trafficking”Jody Rosen, “Animal Traffic,” New York Times Style MagazineCharlote Epstein, “The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti‐​Whaling Discourse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss developments in Iran and America’s Iran policy. Barbara Slavin bioBarbara Slavin, “US Policies Undercut ‘Support’ for ‘Iranian Voices’ ”Barbara Slavin, “Renewed Sanctions Will Hurt Iran’s Economy But U.S. Benefits Uncertain”Barbara Slavin, “Mullahs, Money, and Militias”Emma Ashford and John Glaser, “Unforced Error: The Risks of Confrontation with Iran” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

C. Christine Fair is a Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Peace and Security Studies Program within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She joins Sahar Khan and Trevor Thrall to discuss the ongoing Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and its implication on the Trump administration’s policy toward South Asia.C. Christine Fair’s bioInternational Crisis Group, “The Long Haul ahead for Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugee Crisis,” May 16, 2018Council on Foreign Affairs, “The Rohingya Crisis,” Backgrounder, April 20, 2018Krishnadev Calamur, “The Misunderstood Roots of Burma’s Rohingya Crisis,” The Atlantic, September 25, 2017Sahar Khan, “Ethnic Cleansing vs. Genocide,” Cato @ Liberty, November 29, 2017 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

U.S. counterterrorism has been a mixture of unilateral policies and multilateral partnerships. Stephen Tankel of American University joins us today to discuss the trajectory of U.S. counterterrorism strategy under the Trump administration.Stephen Tankel’s bioJohn Glaser’s bioStephen Tankel, With Us and Against Us: How America’s Partners Help and Hinder the War on TerrorStephen Tankel, “https://​www​.wash​ing​ton​post​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​m​o​n​k​e​y​-​c​a​g​e​/​w​p​/​2​0​1​7​/​0​9​/​1​1​/​f​i​g​h​t​i​n​g​-​t​e​r​r​o​r​i​s​m​-​t​a​k​e​s​-​a​-​g​l​o​b​a​l​-​e​f​f​o​r​t​-​h​o​w​-​h​a​v​e​-​3​-​u​-​s​-​p​r​e​s​i​d​e​n​t​s​-​f​a​r​e​d​-​1​6​-​y​e​a​r​s​-​a​f​t​e​r​-​9​1​1​/​?​u​t​m​_​t​e​r​m​=​.​3​9​6​4​c​b​b​11a04,” Monkey Cage, September 11, 2017Joshua A. Geltzer and Stephen Tankel, “Whatever Happened to Trump’s Counterterrorism Strategy,” The Atlantic, March 1, 2018Stephen Tankel, “Donald Trump’s Shadow War,” Politico, May 9, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James GoldgeierThe AmericansDeborah D. Avant, The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing SecurityNick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, StrategiesSteve Coll, Directorate S: The CIA, and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and PakistanRoger Fisher, William L. Ury, and Bruce Patton, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving InPaul Holden, Indefensible: Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms TradeRobert Jervis, Perception and Misconception in International PoliticsArthur Koestler, Darkness at NoonHans Morgethau, Politics Among NationsOccupiedSteven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st CenturyBen Rhodes, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White HouseJoe Sacco, PalestineElizabeth Saunders, Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military InterventionsBrent Steele, Ontological Security in International Relations: Self‐​Identity and the IR StateAmor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow: A NovelKenneth N. Waltz, Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical AnalysisEarl Weaver, Winning!Jack Goldstone, Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National PoliticsJustin Vaïsse, Zbigniew Brzezinski: America’s Grand StrategistKori Schake, Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American HegemonyMargaret MaronCharlene Harris Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julie Chernov Hwang from Goucher College joins Trevor Thrall and Sahar Khan to discuss why Indonesian jihadists leave militancy in her new book, Why Terrorists Quit.Julie Chernov Hwang’s bioWhy Terrorists Quit: The Disengagement of Indonesian JihadistsJulie Chernov Hwang, “The Unintended Consequences of Amending Indonesia’s Anti‐​Terrorism Law,” Lawfare Blog, October 1, 2017Anita Rachman and Ben Otto, “Families with Bombs: Islamic State inspires new wave of Indonesian Terrorism,” Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2018Sidney Jones, “How ISIS has changed terrorism in Indonesia,” New York Times, May 22, 2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bruce Jentleson from Duke University joins Trevor Thrall and Sahar Khan to discuss the importance of statesmanship and his new book, The Peacemakers.Show notes:Guest Bio: Bruce JentlesonThe Peacemakers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show description: In a special 2‑part episode, Emma Ashford, Trevor Thrall, and new co‐​host, Sahar Kahn, discuss North Korea and the prospects for a nuclear summit with Cato Policy Analyst Eric Gomez.Guest bio: Eric GomezPower Problems Episode #4, September 19, 2017: Kim Jong TrumpEric Gomez, “Not Quite Back to the Drawing Board with North Korea”Eric Gomez, “Keep Calm and Summit On” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.