Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics

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Military Strategy: A Global History

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Arms and Influence

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Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War

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Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era

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Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerillas, Warlords, and Militias

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Global Politics

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Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime

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Diplomacy and the Future of World Order

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The Future of Terrorism: ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Alt-Right

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Cold Rivals: The New Era of US-China Strategic Competition

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The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint

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Monsters to Destroy: Understanding the War on Terror

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The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers

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Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda

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War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict

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The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

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Rethinking American Grand Strategy

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Introduction to Politics 4th Edition

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China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems

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Military Strategies and Tactics

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Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Bridling Dictators: Rules and Authoritarian Politics

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Great Strategic Rivalries: From The Classical World to the Cold War

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The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict

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Constitutional Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Minimalists, and Mutes (Inalienable Rights)

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Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan

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Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability

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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century

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Complex Battlespaces: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Dynamics of Modern Warfare

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Institution Building in Weak States: The Primacy of Local Politics

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The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

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The Case for Israel

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time

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JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia

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Palestine Peace Not Apartheid: Peace Not Apartheid

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How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy

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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America

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Who Rules the World?

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Because We Say So

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Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

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Diplomacy

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Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again

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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation

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63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

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The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

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All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

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The Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World

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The Conscience of a Conservative

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Breaking History: A White House Memoir

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Summary: The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization By Peter Zeihan: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis

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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

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The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB

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The Long Game: China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order

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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

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The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West, with David Kilcullen and Carl Miller: In this episode, leading soldier-scholar David Kilcullen speaks to Carl Miller about how the West’s opponents have learned from twenty-first-century conflict and explains how their cutting-edge tactics and adaptability pose a serious threat to America ...

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Irregular Warfare with Sean McFate

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Dominic Lieven: Author, Award-winning Historian, and Scholar: Dominic Lieven is an award-winning historian and scholar. He was a lecturer, senior lecturer, and professor at the London School of Economics from 1978 to 2011. He was head of the department of government there from 2001 to 2004 and head of the department of international history from 2009-2011. Dominic graduated from Cambridge University, where he graduated top of the class. He was also a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University. He has been an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge since 2019. Other honors include being a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His new book is IN THE SHADOW OF THE GODS: The Emperor in World History, In it he examines the strengths and weaknesses of the emperors and empresses who ran and shaped our world. It is an intimidating tome that examines leadership and power through history around the world. What a perfect guest for these insa

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Andrea Micocci and Flavia Di Mario, "The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism" (Routledge, 2017): In their words, they claim that capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system...

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Fiona Hill on the War Putin Is Really Fighting: Vladimir Putin was looking for a swift invasion that would halt Ukraine’s drift toward the West, reveal NATO’s fractures and weaknesses and solidify Russia as a global power. In response, the West threatened moderate sanctions, but ultimately showed little interest in stepping between Russia and Ukraine. Then came the war, and everything changed. Russia’s invasion met with valiant Ukrainian resistance. President Volodymyr Zelensky became an international hero. NATO countries unified behind a truly punishing sanctions regime and significant military support. Russia’s attack strengthened Ukraine’s national identity — and its desire to join the European Union. A conflict that the U.S. and Europe were treating as purely strategic is now a conflict about the West’s most fundamental values. Much of this has felt hopeful, even inspiring, to those watching from the comfort of home. But it has the potential to unleash a truly terrifying spiral o

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Ep 28: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 1 of 2: Wesley Morgan, journalist and author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley, joins the show to discuss his experiences in the Pech valley, one of Afghanistan’s most contested battlegrounds, and to talk about the U.S. counterinsurgency’s successes and failures. This episode is part 1 of 2.

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How to Defuse the Ukraine Crisis

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Sir Lawrence Freedman on Nuclear Strategy | Michael Auslin | Hoover Institution: Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin is joined by eminent strategist Sir Lawrence Freedman to talk about whether Putin will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, how China is expanding its nuclear arsenal, the relationship between political and military le...

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Jan-Werner Müller, "Democracy Rules" (FSG, 2021): An interview with Jan-Werner Müller

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Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy: Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of Military History for the Modern Strategist: America’s Major Wars Since 1861, joins the show to talk about how the patterns of military history can shed light on today’s concerns.

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Ep 125: Nick Bunker on America and the Early Cold War: Nick Bunker, journalist and author of In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950, joins the show to talk about the first decade of the Cold War.

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G. John Ikenberry on Liberal Internationalism

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Ep 29: Wesley Morgan on Afghanistan, Part 2 of 2: Wesley Morgan, journalist and author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley, joins the show to discuss his experiences in the Pech valley, one of Afghanistan’s most contested battlegrounds, and to talk about the U.S. counterinsurgency’s successes and failures. This episode is part 1 of 2.

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BRICS in China's Foreign Policy Agenda: In 2001, Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill coined the term “BRIC” to describe the fast-growing economies that he predicted would collectively dominate the global economy by 2050. The BRIC countries he was referring to were Brazil, Russia, India, and China. After a series of high-level meetings that included officials from the four countries, the BRIC grouping was founded in 2009. The following year, South Africa joined, and the name became “BRICS”. Last month, the fifteenth BRICS summit was held in Johannesburg. In addition to the leaders of the five core countries, representatives from more than 60 countries attended, and six were officially invited to join the club: Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. How does the BRICS serve China’s foreign policy objectives? And is this expansion a major win for Xi Jinping? Is BRICS likely to become a global grouping of authoritarian countries that poses a challe

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Defeating Russia’s Information War Machine – with Peter Pomerantsev

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The Meaning of the Attack on Israel: Ryan sat down with Bruce Hoffman, the Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss Hamas' terror attack over the weekend. The conversation touched on the...

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The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell

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What is the Western Way of Warfare?: What is the Western Way of War?  Is there one?  How did it come about?  Is it war or warfare (and what is the difference)?  In this trailer to the new podcast from RUSI, we tackle these issues and others, mapping the origins of the...

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Edward Jay Epstein on “How America Lost Its Secrets”: Episode #209

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Episode 053: Denise Minor - Francophile in the FBI, Investigating En Français: Retired agent Denise Minor is interviewed about using her French language skills throughout her FBI career, as LEGAT Morocco and other overseas assignments.

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Assessing Top Global Security Threats with Expert Frederick Kagan

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Downstream: What the Roman Empire Tells Us About the Collapse of the West W/ Peter Heather and John Rapley: Everyone knows that the Roman Empire rose, then fell. Historians don’t all agree on the reasons for the collapse, but their misunderstandings can shed plenty of light on the current state of the world, according to the authors of How Empires Fall: Rome...

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Ep 50: Lawrence Freedman on Command: Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London and author of Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine, joins the show to discuss how politics and military command are inextricably linked.

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Country's Top Spy-Catcher Bill Evanina on Espionage Threats: CBS Radio News

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Byron Tau on the New U.S. Surveillance State

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Vijay Prashad and Noam Chomsky on Afghanistan War & the Fragility of US Empire

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How Does the U.S. Exercise Power Around the World?

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163. Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody: Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that...

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Chinese technology is advancing, but it’s a long way from global domination: The “catch-up and surpass” trope now dominates discussion about Chinese technology. It’s very black and white - China is rising and the rest (mainly the US and the West) are falling behind. It’s all painted as an inevitability. But the reality is much more complicated. Propaganda isn’t strategy. Chinese technology firms are beginning to lead the way in certain social media areas, but they’re also coming up against cultural and manufacturing limits more broadly.

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Ep 113: Rebeccah Heinrichs on Today’s Crisis of American Deterrence: Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative, joins the show to talk about the state of U.S. deterrence of Russia, Iran, and China—and what Washington could be doing better.