Book Talk | The History of U.S. Regime Change Operations @QuincyInst

Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

The U.S. kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and threats against Iran and other states, have once again put the issue of regime change at the center of discussions on U.S. foreign and security policy. There is, however, nothing new about such U.S. operations. They date back at least to the 1890s, and have taken place in almost every region of the world. To discuss this history and its lessons for the present and future, Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute is joined by Stephen Kinzer, co-author of Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, and author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror and Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.

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Book Talk | The History of U.S. Regime Change Operations

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