The International Security Podcast
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsLeading scholars provide insight on urgent policy debates. Jeff Friedman of Dartmouth College interviews contributors to the premiere peer-reviewed journal of security studies. They offer sophisticated, authoritative analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues from the role of China in the world and cyber in international security to the long history of ethnic cleansing in Europe. The podcast is produced at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. International Security is a quarterly journal edited at the Belfer Center and published by MIT Press.
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1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?
March 20, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBGuest: Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Matthew Evangelista, “A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine? Precedents and Possibilities for Postwar European Security,” International Security, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Winter 2023/24), pp. 7–50, https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00476. Originally released on March 20, 2024.
17-The Little-Known History of Radiological Weapons
June 22, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 30 MBGuests: Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Usha Sahay is Senior Editor at POLITICO Magazine, where she focuses on foreign affairs and global issues. She is also the host of “A Most Terrible Weapon,” a podcast produced by War on the Rocks about the dawn of the nuclear age. Previously, she was Managing Editor of War on the Rocks. Internatio...
16-Concealing and Revealing Clandestine Military Capabilities
June 22, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBGuests: Austin Long is Vice Deputy Director for Strategic Stability in the Joint Staff J5 at the U.S. Department of Defense. Ernest J. Herold is Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies—Americas and a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army. He was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment at NATO and Business Development Executive for NATO, U.S. European Command, and U.S. Africa Command at IBM. International Security Article: This p...
15-Technology, Diplomacy, and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
May 06, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBGuests: Christopher Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also editor-at-large at the Diplomat and a contributing editor at War on the Rocks. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Christopher Lawrence, “Normalization by Other M...
14-Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Cheater’s Dilemma
March 16, 2021 07:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBGuests: Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, where she also directs the Oslo Nuclear Project and the Peace and Conflict Studies Master’s Program. Kori Schake is Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Dr. Schake has previously worked at the U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. International Security Article: This podcast is base...
13-What Allies Want: A Look at East Asia
December 10, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBGuests: Iain D. Henry is a Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. Abraham M. Denmark is the Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Denmark previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia from 2015 to 2017. International Security Article: This podcast is ba...
12-Liberal Values, Material Interests, and the Inconsistencies of U.S. Democracy Promotion
October 09, 2020 16:03 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBGuests: Arman Grigoryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University. Sarah Sewall is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center and Executive Vice President for Policy at In-Q-Tel. She previously served as the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights from 2014 to 2017. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Arman Grigoryan, “Selective Wilsonianism: Material Interests and the West’s...
11-Rethinking the Norms and Practices of U.S. Civil-Military Relations
August 20, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBGuests: Risa Brooks is the Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Joseph L. Votel is a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and previously served as Commander of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command. Votel is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow here at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and he is also the President and CEO ...
10-Great Power Politics in the Middle East and Arab-Israeli Conflict—Détente to 2020
July 24, 2020 07:00 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBGuests: Galen Jackson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams College. Aaron David Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, Miller served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Ga...
09-U.S. Electoral Constraints, Military Strategy, and the Iraq War
June 18, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBGuests Andrew Payne is the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford. Emma Sky is the director of the Yale World Fellows Program and a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Sky served as the Governate Coordinator of Kirkuk for the Coalition Provisional Authority from 2003 to 2004, as well as an advisor to the Commanding General of U.S. forces in Iraq from 2007 to 2010. International Security Article This podcast ...
08-Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation
April 15, 2020 07:00 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBGuests: Fiona Cunningham is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Admiral Cecil Haney (ret.) previously served as the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, as well as Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Admiral Haney is currently on the Center for a New American Security Board of Directors. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Fiona S. Cunningham and M. Taylor Fravel, “Dangerous Confidence? Chine...
07-The Post-Conflict Politics of Migration and Refugee Return
April 08, 2020 07:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBGuests: Stephanie Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. Anne C. Richard served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration in the Obama Administration (2012-2017). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service’s Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Stephanie Schwart...
06-Deterring Wartime Atrocities and the Yugoslav Tribunal
April 01, 2020 09:00 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBGuests: Jacqueline R. McAllister is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College. Wesley K. Clark is a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and was the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO during the Kosovo War. He is currently a Senior Fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center. International Security Article: This episode is based on Jacqueline R. McAllister, “Deterring Wartime Atrocities: Hard Lessons from the Yugoslav Tribunal,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 3 (W...
05-Domestic Politics, Nuclear Choices, and the Iran Deal
February 13, 2020 15:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBGuests: Elizabeth Saunders is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a faculty member in the Security Studies Program. She is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. Suzanne Maloney is the Interim Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, where she focuses on the politics of Iran and the Persian Gulf. Internation...
04-How to Enlarge NATO
January 15, 2020 09:00 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBGuests: Mary Elise Sarotte is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Douglas Lute is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Ambassador Lute is also the former U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO from 2013 to 2017, as well as a career Army officer who retired from active duty...
03-Debating ‘The End of War’
December 20, 2019 15:45 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBGuests: Michael Mousseau is a professor in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida. Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University, and former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School. International Security Article: This episode is based on Michael Mousseau, “The End of War: How a Robust Marketplace and Liberal Hegemony Are Leading to Perpetual World Peace,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Sum...
02-Chinese Coercion in the South China Sea
November 14, 2019 11:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBGuests: Ketian Zhang is an Assistant Professor of International Security in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Scott Swift is a retired admiral with nearly 40 years of experience in the U.S. Navy. Swift is a former commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet and was previously a Robert E Wilhelm Fellow at MIT’s Center for International Security. Susan Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost 30 years of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eura...
01-Weaponized Interdependence
October 25, 2019 16:48 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MBGuests: Abraham Newman is a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He currently serves as the Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies. Elizabeth Rosenberg is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. International Security Article: This episode is based on, Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman, “Weaponized Interdependence: Ho...