Bloggingheads.tv: Drezburt
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsHeather Hurlburt and Daniel Drezner offer unorthodox takes from inside security orthodoxy.
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Not-So-Grand Strategy Edition (Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
November 06, 2019 00:26 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MBThe story behind Heather's Expos hat ... Trump's failed, reality TV–esque, fatal car crash reconciliation ... Will impeachment cause US foreign policy to improve? ... Is the era of grand strategy over? ... Why a US–EU entente is coming post-Trump ... Dan: Climate change can't be ignored in foreign policy any more ...
Drezburt Returns (Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
June 16, 2019 00:22 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBWho tried to kill Big Papi? ... Who attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman? ... Is Shinzo Abe Trump's friend or supplicant? ... Gauging the odds of war with Iran ... Heather: Trump's actions mean the US can never rejoin the nuclear deal ... The ever-growing costs of maintaining American hegemony ... Trump as God's gift to neoliberalism ... Dan has some kind words for Elizabeth Warren ...
Drezburt Year-End Spectacular (Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
December 23, 2018 00:04 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBSecretary Mattis's extraordinary resignation letter ... Why did Trump decide to withdraw from Syria now? ... Secretary of Defense David Petraeus? ... Other foreign policy news you may have missed this week ... Heather: You don't change Trump, Trump changes you ... Laughing and crying at the year in foreign policy ...
Spring Break Edition (Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
March 26, 2018 21:23 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MBGary Cohn, we hardly knew ye ... The incoherence of Trump's trade policy ... Why the current debate about trade is out of date ... Will Mike Pompeo be better than Rex Tillerson? ... Assessing James Mattis's tenure ... Heather makes the case against the CIA's Gina Haskell ... Dan is genuinely worried about John Bolton in the White House ...
Tolstoyan Edition (Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
January 26, 2018 23:54 - 44 minutes - 20.1 MBTrump's first year in foreign policy ... The international community of shitholes ... The logical contradiction at the heart of Trump's foreign policy ... Dan: Trump disdains the liberal international order but offers no alternative ... The challenge for internationalists ... The "constant crap" theory ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
October 16, 2017 16:34 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBHeather’s statement on the #metoo hashtag and sexual assault awareness ... What “America first” means to the rest of the world ... Is the liberal international order in danger? Heather says yes ... Dan’s book Avoiding Trivia makes a surprise appearance ... Heather: Social media matters, but information warfare is nothing new ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
October 16, 2017 16:34 - 1 hour - 39.3 MBHeather’s statement on the #metoo hashtag and sexual assault awareness ... What “America first” means to the rest of the world ... Is the liberal international order in danger? Heather says yes ... Dan’s book Avoiding Trivia makes a surprise appearance ... Heather: Social media matters, but information warfare is nothing new ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
August 15, 2017 00:21 - 2 hours - 57.4 MBThe end of the “axis of adults” ... Heather: Trump needs Deterrence Theory 101 ... How much should we fear North Korea? ... Which Trump adviser will be the next to go? ... The disconnect between Trump and the Pentagon ... The case for negotiating with North Korea ...
(Daniel Drezner & Heather Hurlburt)
June 16, 2017 00:46 - 1 hour - 47 MBWhat Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Accord says about executive power ... Comparing Trump and Bush: why messaging matters ... Dan on Trump's diplomacy: more predictable, less credible ... Will Trump's grandstanding on NATO bring results? ... Has Trump deterred nationalist populism in Europe? ... Global governance in the age of populism ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
April 18, 2017 00:26 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBThe end of Turkish democracy? ... The foreign policy “axis of adults” ... Nikki Haley, rising star ... Why the MOAB and the Syria strikes won’t scare Kim Jong-Un ... Will Trump negotiate with North Korea? ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
March 11, 2017 00:20 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBWhy has Trump left so many jobs unfilled? ... And does it matter? ... The options for dealing with North Korea (spoiler: They’re all bad) ... Trump’s confusing approach to China ... Why Trump hates multilateral trade agreements ... Dan’s pick for most embarrassing Trump administration moment of the week ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
January 28, 2017 01:40 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBThe boring first week of Trump’s presidency ... What does the State Department exodus mean? ... A return to black sites and torture? ... Why the immigration executive orders will undermine national security ... The yuge myth about the international order ... Why the $@&%?! would Trump want to lift sanctions on Russia? ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
November 11, 2016 23:27 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBWhat Heather and Dan got wrong about the election ... Will Trump’s national security team face a recruitment problem? ... Will Trump’s cabinet be plagued by infighting? ... Dan: Fiscal hawks could lose bigly ... How will The Hill respond to Trump? ... The ethics of serving in a Trump administration ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
August 26, 2016 00:02 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBTrump's pivot on immigration ... Will Trumpism survive Trump? ... The hard limits of Trump's campaign strategy ... Are we living during a realist Renaissance? ... The legacy of Kissinger, the realist bogeyman ... Election developments to watch for after Labor Day ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
July 14, 2016 16:41 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MBWhy we don't see many Dwight D. Eisenhowers ... Dan on an unlikely General Flynn VP pick ... Why military life doesn't prepare you for politics ... Does America want a savior? ... Hillary's potential VP pick, Admiral Stavridis (a.k.a. Dan's boss!) ... Will national security Never Trumpers change their tune? ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
May 08, 2016 20:01 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBThe GOP foreign policy divide over Trump ... Trump's contradictory foreign policy platform ... Has 2016 paved the way for anti-establishment candidates? ... The controversial profile of Ben Rhodes in NYT Mag... ... ...and its questionable portrayal of the Iran deal ... Is parenting overrated? ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
March 15, 2016 20:29 - 1 hour - 54.1 MBHeather and Dan seize the narrative on Russian forces in Syria ... Obama's disdain for the DC foreign policy establishment ... Obama’s disdain for the Arab Middle East ... Neither party is telling an up-to-date story on trade ... The case for the establishment candidates: We think we know what they’ll do ... No, really—who would be on Trump’s foreign policy team? ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
January 28, 2016 14:29 - 1 hour - 39.4 MBThe mindset of the outsider candidate ... Hashing out Bernie Sanders's silence on foreign policy ... Dan to Heather: Would you advise Donald Trump? ... Does Davos matter? ... The potential farce of Syrian peace talks ... Parenting in the 21st century ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
December 11, 2015 22:13 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBHeather: The Trump effect is real ... Where will the energy unleashed by Trump go? ... Has Trump hurt America internationally? ... Dan: Trump and Clinton sound alike on online radicalization ... The online privacy paradox ... 2015 mostly stunk, but there are signs of hope for 2016! ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
November 12, 2015 21:12 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBForeign policy's diversity problem ... Do GOP voters like Rand Paul's non-interventionism? ... The Republican base's trust issues ... American-style polarization goes global ... Why the United Kingdom probably won't leave the EU ... RIP BRICs? ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
October 14, 2015 01:55 - 1 hour - 51 MBTPP illustrates America's paradoxical China policy ... Clinton and the glorious history of flip-flopping on trade ... An intriguing Biden 2016 theory ... Can Putin save Assad? ... Could Syria ignite a wider regional war? ... What unites Russia and the House Freedom Caucus ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
September 02, 2015 21:21 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBDeep thoughts on Scott Walker's Canadian border wall ... Dan: Walker's foreign policy speech was "really bad" ... Critiquing the GOP contenders' rhetoric on China ... Would sanctioning China over hacking be effective? ... Why the campaign against the Iran deal failed ... Red-state Dems, American Jews, and Netanyahu ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
August 02, 2015 21:06 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBThe hidden message of Obama's Africa trip ... Anti–Iran deal rhetoric goes nuclear ... Can AIPAC sink the nuclear deal? ... Heather: Israel is hurting its own long-term goals ... Causes and consequences of Chinese stock market craziness ... Lessons from the failures of humanitarian intervention ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
June 24, 2015 18:38 - 1 hour - 36.4 MBIt's a miracle! Trade promotion authority is revived ... Dan: Obama has made a strategic, not economic, argument ... Heather critiques the trade deal from the left ... The big mistake we made about China in the '90s ... Former Israeli ambassador goes on anti-Obama press tour ... How the Obama/Netanyahu schism will affect 2016 ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
May 14, 2015 23:23 - 1 hour - 34.8 MBWhy the debate around the TPP trade bill is incoherent ... The real reasons the Senate bill failed ... Why does Obama want this trade deal now? ... Grading Rubio's big foreign policy speech ... Heather on the "genius" of Scott Walker ... Netanyahu loses FIFA and the Vatican in one week ...
(Heather Hurlburt & Daniel Drezner)
April 17, 2015 00:26 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBHeather: Corker's bill is an "unambiguous win" for Obama ... Would a GOP president revoke an Iran deal? ... Cuban change comes not with a bang but a whimper ... Will 2016 be a national security election? ... The politics of free-floating voter anxiety ... How Clinton can fend off the Karl Rovian attack ...