16 February 2020
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The truth about foreign policy “realism”
Robert Wright speaks with Andrew Bacevich, president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and author of The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory.
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In this video:
- Andrew’s new book, The Age of Illusions
- Andrew’s ideological lodestars: Catholic conservatism, Reinhold Niebuhr, and FDR
- Defining foreign policy “realism”
- How Clinton, GWB, and Obama were captured by the post–Cold War consensus
- Will international law ever command wide respect?
- 1992 as a harbinger of 2016
- The political logic behind America’s endless drone war
- Why Trump keeps failing to end the wars he wants to end
- How Andrew’s service in Vietnam shaped his worldview
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