The International Security Podcast

11 - The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies

Guests: Eun A Jo is an Assistant Professor of Government at William & Mary. Jessica Chen Weiss is David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University’

10 – Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers

Guests: Ron Krebs is Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. International Security Article: Ronal

9 – The Rules-Based International Order

Guests: Marc Trachtenberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. International Security Article: Marc Trachtenberg, “Th

8 – Airpower and the Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia

Guests: Nicholas Anderson is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Daryl Press is Faculty Director of th

7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China

Guests: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School. International Security Article: Stephen M. Walt,

6 – Putin’s Preventive War

Guests: Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the MIT Security Studies Program,

5 – Competing Visions of Restraint

Guests: Miranda Priebe is a senior political scientist and director of the Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy at RAND. John Schuessler is Associate Professor of I

4 – Do Autocrats Need a Foreign Enemy?

Guests: Henry Hale is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Adam Lenton is Assistant Professor of Politics and Interna

3 – Fatalism and War

Guests: Dominic Tierney is Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College. International Security Article: Dominic Tierney “The Iron Dice: Fatalism a

2 - Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe

Guests: Şener Aktürk is Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye. International Security Article: Şener Aktürk, “Not So Innocent: Cle

1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?

Guest: Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University. International Security Article: This podcast is based o

16-Concealing and Revealing Clandestine Military Capabilities

Guests: Austin Long is Vice Deputy Director for Strategic Stability in the Joint Staff J5 at the U.S. Department of Defense. Ernest J. Herold is Executive Director of t

17-The Little-Known History of Radiological Weapons

Guests: Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of Internat

15-Technology, Diplomacy, and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Guests: Christopher Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown Unive

14-Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Cheater’s Dilemma

Guests: Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, where she also directs the Oslo Nuclear Project and the Peace and Conflict

13-What Allies Want: A Look at East Asia

Guests: Iain D. Henry is a Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.  Abraham M. Denmark is the Director of the Asia P

12-Liberal Values, Material Interests, and the Inconsistencies of U.S. Democracy Promotion

Guests: Arman Grigoryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University. Sarah Sewall is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the

11-Rethinking the Norms and Practices of U.S. Civil-Military Relations

Guests: Risa Brooks is the Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategi

10-Great Power Politics in the Middle East and Arab-Israeli Conflict—Détente to 2020

Guests: Galen Jackson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams College. Aaron David Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Internatio

09-U.S. Electoral Constraints, Military Strategy, and the Iraq War

Guests Andrew Payne is the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Emma Sky is the director of the Yale World Fellows Progra