Nonzero | Gaza, Realism, and US Foreign Policy | Robert Wright & Emma Ashford @Nonzero | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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0:00 Emma’s forthcoming book on US grand strategy
4:16 Gaza, Ukraine, and Mearsheimer’s realism
13:14 The DC establishment’s dark view of world affairs
24:19 How the Gaza war hurts American interests—and America itself
29:46 Is the time ripe for realism and restraint?
36:01 National problems that require international cooperation
49:35 Heading to Overtime

Discussed in Overtime:
How US behavior provoked a Russian backlash.
The rising tide of China hawkism.
Progressives’ retreat from realism.
DC think tanks that resist the Blob.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Emma Ashford (Stimson Center, Foreign Policy). Recorded August 14, 2024.

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