The Hell of Good Intentions | Robert Wright & Stephen Walt [The Wright Show]

1:04 Steve’s new book, The Hell of Good Intentions
7:13 Steve: “Liberal hegemony” has been almost a complete failure
16:24 Why foreign policy watchers were so optimistic in 1993
24:03 Bill Clinton’s foreign policy blunders: Expansion of NATO and “dual containment” of Iran and Iraq
32:23 Steve: Within the foreign policy establishment, failure has no consequences and dissent is punished
42:31 How both Obama and Trump were captured by the foreign policy “blob”
49:42 Why are so many think tanks interventionist?
53:24 Steve’s proposal for a smarter foreign policy: “offshore balancing”

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University, Foreign Policy)

Recorded October 11, 2018

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