Emma Ashford: Where do American interests end?

What is a foreign policy of restraint? Are the Anglosphere and Western Hemisphere key to American interests? Will the transatlantic alliance endure? Do Russia or China pose substantial threats to the United States?

Time Stamps:01:38 What is the restraint movement in US foreign policy?06:28 Is military overextension a product of liberal internationalism?12:35 Restraint as a function of generational turnover14:39 What do restrainers want in positive terms?16:49 Progressive and nationalist visions of restraint 19:27 What is the influence of your Scottish origins?20:42 A comparison of the British and American empires23:10 The Soviet and Russian threat?26:52 Advancing the US national interest as a Scot29:06 The Anglosphere33:08 A hemispheric foreign policy36:46 Europe in or out?40:44 Ukraine54:42 China1:02:12 Multipolarity

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

Peter Slezkine, the Director of the USA-Russia-China Trialogue project at the Stimson Center, hosts a series of conversations with experts and ex-officials from the United States, Russia, China and beyond to discuss cold wars past and present, potential areas of conflict and cooperation, and alternative visions of global order, among other subjects. Since the middle of the 20th century, the shifting relationship among the United States, Russia, and China has had a profound impact on each country separately and on the world as a whole. Yet the breakdown of contacts, combined with political, cultural, and linguistic barriers, have hindered the study of the full trilateral dynamic. At a time when even bilateral channels of communication have begun to break down, the Trialogue offers a new and necessary perspective on the defining geopolitical relationship of our time.

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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