Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchReagan's Peace
Eric and Eliot welcome William Inboden to discuss his new book, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War and the World on the Brink. They discuss …
3 years, 3 months ago
The World Order
Eric and Eliot welcome Georgetown Professor Emeritus Robert Lieber to discuss his new book, Indispensable Nation. They discuss the nature of the "rul…
3 years, 3 months ago
Revolution
Eric and Eliot welcome Council on Foreign Relations Fellow Ray Takeyh to discuss the ongoing popular uprising in Iran. They talk about Ray’s article …
3 years, 4 months ago
Civilian Control
Eric and Eliot welcome Duke University professor, Peter Feaver, to discuss the state of civil-military relations, the recent statement on the subject…
3 years, 4 months ago
Happy Birthday Mr. Dictator
Eric and Eliot discuss Ukraine’s birthday gift to Vladimir Putin, likely Russian responses, and Eliot’s Atlantic article on Putin’s nuclear threats. …
3 years, 5 months ago
The Liz Truss Buttress
Eric welcomes Eliot back from his sojourn in Poland and Ukraine. They discuss U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss’s early appointments on national security…
3 years, 5 months ago
Why Russia's Military Got Ukraine So Wrong
Eric and Eliot discuss what they have been writing lately (links below), the situation in Ukraine, the reasons for why Russia analysts got things wro…
3 years, 6 months ago
Imperial Russia, Past and Present (with John Herbst)
Eric welcomes back Eliot from travels and illness to host John Herbst who was the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine during the Orange Revolution. They discu…
3 years, 6 months ago
Peak China and the Lessons of the Cold War (with Hal Brands and Michael Beckley)
While Eliot is away on vacation, Eric hosts authors Hal Brands and Michael Beckley whose new book, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, drops…
3 years, 7 months ago
Did America Get China Wrong? (with Professor Aaron Friedberg)
Eric and Eliot host long time friend and colleague Professor Aaron Friedberg of Princeton to discuss Aaron’s new book Getting China Wrong. They cover…
3 years, 7 months ago