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Horns of a Dilemma — 311 episodes
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya's Battle for Belarus
China's Bid for Space Supremacy in the Middle East
Virtuous Violence and the Psychology of Nuclear Escalation
How the Soviet Collapse Shaped North Korea
Deep Ocean Danger: Unveiling the Threats to Global Connectivity
25 Years of the US-China Commission: Taiwan, Tech Competition, and Over-the-Horizon Risks
Iran's Nuclear Tightrope: Between Power and Peril
New Tech, Old Traps: The Persistent Pitfalls in Military Innovation
The Balance of Control and Vulnerability: Cyber and Nuclear Risks
Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Military Systems
Beyond the Hype: The Reality of Precision-Strike Weapons in Ukraine
Psychological Biases in the Era of Nuclear Weapons and AI
Understanding Schelling's Nuclear Paradigms with Francis J. Gavin
Strategic Stability in a Rapidly Changing World
A Dystopian Take on Rising Authoritarianism and Resistance
Navigating a World Adrift with Shivshankar Menon
The Principle of Distinction in the Autonomous Age
Ensuring US Military Readiness in the Indo-Pacific
US Military Primacy and Alliance Resilience
Conventional Options Theory in the New Nuclear Era
The Art and Science of Grand Strategy
Trade, Technology, & the US–Korea Alliance: A Conversation with Ambassador Kang
The Democratization of Violence in the Greater Middle East
AI Policy & Hostage Recovery with the Former Deputy Assistant to the President
Cold War Lessons for Export Controls Against China
Emerging Challenges in Global Nuclear Policy
Addressing the North Korean Conundrum
Assessing and Combating Overconfidence Among 2,000 National Security Officials
Economic Cooperation Across Enemy Lines
Hackers and Warriors in the US Army
International Law in the Gray Zone
The Strategic Significance of Taiwan in US Defense Planning
Balancing AI and Human Control in Nuclear Strategy
Rethinking North Korea's Artillery Threat
Remembering Joseph Nye
Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations
Machine Failing: The Linkage Between Software Development Flaws and Military Accidents
Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict
Soviet-India Relations: Cold War Contest and Cooperation
Australian and New Zealand Views on the U.S. Relationship
The War of Words Between FDR and Charles Lindbergh
Hunting for Submarines in the Warming Ocean
Drones, AI, and the Changing Nature of Warfare
How China Uses Economic Sanctions
Access Denied? Non-Aligned State Decisions to Grant Access During War
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
Combatant Command and the Intersection of Policy and Military Execution
Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Wisdom for a World in Turmoil
Placing Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait in the Context of the End of the Cold War
Sport and War: Martin Pengelly on his book "Brotherhood"
The Debate Over Why the United States Invaded Iraq in 2003
Great-Power Expectations in Europe
Estimating China's Defense Spending: How to Get It Wrong (and Right)
History and Perspective in Statecraft and War
Introducing our new editor-in-chief, Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Mitigating Risks in a Volatile World: A Conversation with Philip Zelikow
Why the United States Failed to Retrench from Europe during the Early Cold War
Salami Tactics in the Shadow of Major War
Joseph Nye on Scholarship and Practice in International Relations
The Difficult Balance of Constitutional Statesmanship During Times of War
The Pivot to Asia Remains Incomplete
Sweden, Finland, and the Meaning of Alliance Membership
From Panic to Policy: The Limits of Foreign Propaganda and the Foundations of an Effective Response
Why the Humanities Still Matter in Higher Education
The Evolution of China's Navy
The Multiple Collisions Involved in the War in Ukraine
Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents
South Korea's Grand Strategy
Fighting in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Understanding the Defense Department's Industrial Base Problems
George Shultz and the End of the Cold War
AI and Making the Supply Chain More Robust
America's Effort to Shield Itself
The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion
European Security and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Foreign Policy In the Johnson Years
China's Digital Data Trafficking
Government Historians and Engagement with Classified Information
The Media, Secrecy and Transparency
A Conversation with Sen. John Cornyn
The Future of Presidential Libraries
Using Technology to Solve the Declassification Problem
Classification and Scholarship
Counter-Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities
Russian Opposition to Totalitarianism
The Making of the American Hegemon
Keeping the Nation's Secrets
How Will the Russo-Ukrainian War End?
Investigating Russian War Crimes: Ukraine's Quest for Justice
Seeds of Division Between Russia and China
A Conversation with Dr. Paul Edgar and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
A Conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Israel's 9/11
China's Law of the Sea
Confronting Saddam Hussein
The Nuclear Club
Lessons From A White House Intelligence Briefer
European Security After the War in Ukraine
Reagan's War Stories
The Bureau of Things That Keep You Up At Night
Corps Capabilities: Redesigning the Marine Corps for the Modern Indo-Pacific
Hard Power, Hard Choices, and Cold, Hard Cash
Dealers in Hope? Leadership in the Russia-Ukraine War
The Hard Politics of Soft Power
Transition in a Time of Transition
A Hard Act to Follow: Explaining Authoritarian Succession
What Happens if the Balloon Goes Up With China?
The Truth Shall Set You Free: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Cold War
The Contradictions of J. Edgar Hoover
The Arc of a Covenant
Reconstructing the Roots of January 6
Dauntless Courage at Midway
The Ghost of Missiles Past
Freedom and the Rule of Law
China's Campaign Against the Uyghur People
How the Gipper Won
When the (Micro) Chips Are Down
The Politics of Passion
Keeping Civil-Military Relations Civil
See Power? Seapower!
A Remembrance of Things Not Actually Past
Avoiding War With the Army You Want
When You Wish Upon a Tsar
An Overview of Strategy Down Under
Ideology and America's View of the World
Afghan Crucible
Compassion, Control, and Complications: 19th Century British Anti-Slavery Efforts
Protecting Civilians in War: Law, Politics, Strategy, and Morality
Storm Center? The Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations
Everything You Wanted to Know About History and Foreign Policy (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Healthy Worry About Healthy Civil-Military Relations
Remembering Robert Jervis, Part II
Remembering Robert Jervis, Part I
History is What States Make of It
We Have Met the Enemy and They are Us
Word Politics
Sanctioned Behavior
The Chinese Fox Guarding the Human Rights Henhouse
War Crime and Punishment
Solidarity with Ukraine
Foreword to Victory: Paul Kennedy Speaks on the Naval History of World War II
Can you spare a DIME? The full range of foreign policy tools in Latin America
Your Orders are not on Paper: Changing Political Order in the Long Twentieth Century
Second Thoughts About the Third World
The Army, the Government, and the People in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Getting Rid of Unpleasant (Nerve) Gas
The Personal Face of International Tension: Hostage Diplomacy and Russia's War in Ukraine
Gray zone, twilight zone or danger zone? Russian cyber and information operations in Ukraine
Reading Tea Leaves on Tehran: The Past and Future of Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
Known Knowns and Known Unknowns in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics and Western Support
The Deadly Business of Dissent in Russia
[Alt]+[Cmd]+[Ctrl]: Coordinating Cyber Security
What Old Mental Maps Reveal About Competition Today
You Can't Believe Everything You See on TV
Inching Toward War in Europe
The Texture of War in Afghanistan's Pech Valley: Part 2
The Texture of War in Afghanistan's Pech Valley: Part 1
The Inverse Midas Touch: Why America's Interventions So Often Go Wrong
A Novel Approach to Intelligence
A Faustian Bargain
STARTing over on Arms Control?
How Technology Changes Arms Control
The Malacca Dilemma: Growing Chinese Military Power
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader
A Strategy of Denial
Cyber Security is Only Partly Cloudy
Refuge and Reconciliation
Isn't it Grand?
Defending Democracy – Inside the Senate Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election
MAD COWs and Practical Wisdom
Insurgency is Easier than Governing: The Future of the Taliban in Afghanistan
Writing and Editing on the Rocks
Diplomacy Shaken Not Stirred
A History of Things That Didn't Happen
The Long Goodbye
A Promising Past?
Growing and Shrinking
Tripped Up About Tripwires
Cyber Economic Espionage
Security and Insecurity in the Indo-Pacific
The Cyber Arms Race
Putting Diplomacy at the Center of Foreign Policy
Living in the House Designed by Greeks and Romans
A Country That Matters All Day, Every Day
The Politics of Who You Know
A League of Like-Minded Nations
Reporting on Radicals
Trump Versus Xi
The Unconventional Future of Conventional War
Is Forever War Really Forever? The Case Against the New Non-Interventionism
Gender and Security
The Greatest Unknown Tragedy of World War I
A Conversation with Gen. (ret.) David Petraeus
Why the Soviet Union Lost the Cold War
How to Lose the Information War
Thank Me for My Service: Military Exceptionalism and the Civ-Mil Gap
The Speech That Shaped the Cold War World Order
The Last Shah
Henry Kissinger and American Power
Border Dilemmas
The 'China Nightmare'
What's the Point of DHS?
Guns, Government, and Grievance: Right-Wing Extremism and the Oath Keepers
Donald Trump's Foreign Policy Legacy
The Regime: How Arms Control Treaties Keep Us Safe
Civil-Military Relations from Trump to Biden
Engaging the Evil Empire
H.R. McMaster on Hubris, Empathy, and National Security
Reflections on a Lifetime in Intelligence
A Study in Power: The Life of James A. Baker III
The Impact of "the West" on American Foreign Policy
It's Not Just Over There: The American Commitment to the Korean Peninsula
Divided We Fall
A Conversation About COVID: Pandemics and National Security
Biden, Trump, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
Military Pensions: Politics, Policy, and Reform
Global Democracy in the Trump Era
Lawyers Trying Lawyers: How the Doolittle Raids Shaped Military Commissions
A Way to Not Do Nothing
Topics You're Not Supposed to Discuss at Dinner: The Role of Evangelical Religion in U.S. Foreign Policy
A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from Z to Shining Z
The Indo-Pacific Triangle: China, India, and the United States
Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
Who Will Guard the Guardians?
The Role of Social Media in International Relations
Every Adjective in the Dictionary Applies to Lyndon Johnson
Distortions in the Fabric of Deterrence
Race and National Security
What's the Role of America in American Foreign Policy?
Where Do We Go from Here? The Future of Academia and U.S. National Security
Peace is Hell: Why America Struggles to Create Stability After Conflict
Bill Clements: A Most Formidable Man
Presidents and the Books They Wrote
How World Leaders Are Like High Schoolers: Professor Danielle Lupton Discusses Her New Book 'Reputation for Resolve
'Keeping the Russians Out, the Americans In, and the Computers Down?' Erik Lin-Greenberg on His Article "Allies and Artificial Intelligence"
Sheena Greitens on U.S. – China Relations
Tami Davis Biddle Discusses Coercion Theory: A Basic Introduction for Practitioners
The Future of European Governance in a Post-COVID World
Using the Military to Help Fight COVID-19
Getting Smart on Pandemics: Intelligence in the Wake of COVID-19
Nukes and U.S. National Security
Great Power, Great Responsibility: Global Competition in an Age of Uncertainty
Allies and American Foreign Policy
Pandemics and National Security
Cheney and Powell: A Fractured Friendship
Strength, Wisdom, and Israel's Character
Assassination at Sheridan Circle
How an Obscure National Security Council Staffer Changed the Balkans
Brexit is Happening, But Will it Ever End?
The Future Role of the Marine Corps
How Churchill Waged War
The Roots of Brexit and What the Future Holds
Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Crisis and Anglo-American Power Transition
The Spy Who Hacked Me
God, Oil, and American Power
Influence Operations and Active Measures: The History of Soviet and Russian Political Warfare in the West
Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States
Law and National Security: Legitimacy, Security, and 'Tom Clancy Stuff'
An Unseen but Outsized Influence: A History of the National Security Council with John Gans
A Conversation on Middle East Security with Gen. Amos Yadlin
A Conversation with Gen. Vincent Brooks on North Korea and Asia Security Challenges
A Conversation with Rep. Mac Thornberry on Defense Policy
Counter-Terrorism Since 9/11
America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11
An Interview with Robert Jervis - Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy
No First Use: Unpacking the Benefits and Risks of a Policy of Nuclear Restraint
The Good Friday Agreement - Ending War and Ending Conflict in Northern Ireland
Past and Present - How the Idea of National Security Has Shifted Over Time
A Little-Known CIA Operation in Poland
How the Big Bear Used Hybrid Warfare in Its Back Yard
Seeing Beyond the Horizon - Intelligence Challenges in a Rapidly Changing World
Emerging Threats, Technology Challenges, and Institutional Change
Law Enforcement Responses to New Threats
The Politics of Partnership in the War on Terror
The Lessons of Tragedy - Statecraft and World Order
Empire of Dominoes – Britain, Southeast Asian Anti-Communism, and U.S. Hegemony
Why Ike Matters - America and the World in the 1950s
Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies
Putin's Russia – Implications for U.S.-Russia Relations
Strategic Stability in Two Nuclear Posture Reviews
The Changing Nature of the U.S.-China Relationship
Five Policymakers Talk Strategies, Tactics and Tools
Keynote Address by Senator Ben Sasse
Keynote Conversation on the SSCI Investigation into Russian Active Measures
Russia and the Great Power Competition
The World Order
A Brief History of Civil Religion in America
How the Cold War Created Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping
The Flying Tigers
The Intersection of Global Fragility and Climate Risks
Intelligence and National Security Policymaking – A Conversation with Congressman Joaquin Castro
How Human Rights Rocked Foreign Policy
Great Powers, Great Struggles
The Threat Assessment
Middle East Realignment and Israel
Home Front the Battlefront
Part Two: National Security Dimensions of Global Food Insecurity
National Security Dimensions of Global Food Insecurity
Vietnam's Indelible Legacy: How the War Changed National Security Policymaking
Strategy by Solarium: From Eisenhower to Cyber
Will Artificial Intelligence Change Everything? TNSR Vol 1 Issue 3
Statecraft and the Great Power Challenge, TNSR Vol 1 Issue 3
Americans and the Transatlantic Relationship, TNSR Vol 1 Issue 3
Russia's Ambitions, Fears, and Future
Staying Ahead of the Curve in the Intelligence World
When the Director of National Intelligence Came to Austin: Dan Coats on Intel in the 21st Century
Even Cybersecurity is Bigger in Texas
The Last Republicans?
Introducing Horns of a Dilemma with a Conversation on Leadership