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 turnover
• 14:39 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 empires
• 23:10 The Soviet and Russian threat?
• 26:52 Advancing the US national interest as a Scot
• 29:06 The Anglosphere
• 33:08 A hemispheric foreign policy
• 36:46 Europe in or out?
• 40:44 Ukraine
• 54:42 China
• 1:02:12 Multipolarity

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

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