Christopher Nichols, professor of history and Wayne Woodrow Hayes chair in National Security Studies at The Ohio State University, Emily Conroy-Krutz, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, and Jay Sexton, professor of history and Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how ideology has historically influenced and shaped U.S. foreign policy. 

This episode originally aired on November 1, 2022.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Emily Conroy-Krutz, Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic 

Kathryn Gin Lum, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History 

David Hollinger, Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 

Karl Marx, The German Ideology 

Melanie McAlister, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals 

Christopher McKnight Nichols, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age 

Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne, eds., Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy: New Histories 

Jay Sexton, A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History 

The White House, Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Cgsierra%40cfr.org%7C632532e334d04aa99e8c08dab87a315a%7C146cc3db32f24b3c815625bcc3553464%7C0%7C0%7C638025132196257511%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a78lJxfRreOlNUN9nH0SThBbni3CwwLYsKvkw%2BjyjAo%3D&reserved=0">Biden-Harris Administration's National Security Strategy: October 2022  

Jenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center and the director of Stimson’s 38 North program, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss North Korea’s nuclear advances and their consequences for the security situation in Northeast Asia.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/north-koreas-nuclear-program-jenny-town

Esther Brimmer, The James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance at The Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss a recent multilateral agreement reached at the United Nations to protect biodiversity in the world’s oceans.

Mentioned on the Podcast

“What’s Cracking in The Arctic,” Why It Matters

UN General Assembly, Draft Agreement Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction [PDF]

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/the-un-high-seas-treaty-with-esther-brimmer 

Paul Scharre, the vice president and director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping great power competition and intensifying the geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States.

Mentioned on the Podcast

“Killer Robots and Autonomous Weapons With Paul Scharre,” The President’s Inbox

Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/artificial-intelligence-and-great-power-competition-paul-scharre

Edward Alden, the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at CFR and Ross Dist Visiting Professor at Western Washington University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the crisis at the U.S. southern border and the domestic debates over U.S. immigration policy. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Edward Alden, Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

Edward Alden, “When Goods Move but People Don't,” Barron’s

Edward Alden, When the World Closed Its Doors: The COVID Pandemic and the Future of Border Control [Forthcoming]

Edward Alden and Tess Turner, “More Lost Chances for Immigration Reform,” CFR.org 

Jeb Bush, Thomas F. III McLarty, and Edward Alden, U.S. Immigration Policy 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at:   https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/us-immigration-policy-edward-alden

Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Mexico’s new electoral law and other developments that may be eroding the country’s democratic governance. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Shannon K. O’Neil, “More Soldiers Won’t Curb Mexico’s Rampant Violence,” CFR.org

Shannon K. O’Neil, The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

Shannon K. O’Neil, Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

“The Globalization Myth with Shannon K. O’Neil,” The President’s Inbox

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/mexicos-democratic-backsliding-shannon-k-oneil

Ebenezer Obadare, the Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the results of Nigeria’s presidential election and their consequences. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Africa in Transition, CFR.org

Ebenezer Obadare, “A Chance to Consolidate,” CFR.org

Ebenezer Obadare, Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare, “What’s at Stake in Nigeria’s General Elections?,” CFR.org

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/nigerias-general-election-ebenezer-obadare

Fiona S. Cunningham, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss China’s expanding nuclear weapons program and the likelihood of an arms race with the United States. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Fiona S. Cunningham, “Cooperation Under Asymmetry? The Future of U.S.-China Nuclear Relations,” The Washington Quarterly

Fiona S. Cunningham, “Strategic Substitution: China's Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age,” International Security

Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China's Military Strategy Since 1949

Taylor Fravel and Evan S. Medeiros, “China’s Search for Assured Retaliation: The Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Strategy and Force Structure [PDF],” International Security

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/chinas-nuclear-forces-fiona-s-cunningham

Samuel Charap, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Miranda Priebe, director of the Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss where the war in Ukraine is headed and how U.S. foreign policy should respond.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe, 1.html">Avoiding a Long War: U.S. Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/long-war-ukraine-samuel-charap-and-miranda-priebe

Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the impact of climate change in the Horn of Africa. This series is made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Michelle Gavin, Climate Change and Regional Instability in the Horn of Africa

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/what-climate-change-means-horn-africa-michelle-gavin