Security Dilemma

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi are joined by George Beebe to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, Russian security policy, and the future of European security.
Mr. Beebe is Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute. He spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open-Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), warned how the United States and Russia could stumble into a dangerous military confrontation. Prior to joining QI, George was Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest.
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On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi are joined by Dr. Nikolas Gvosdev, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. Dr. Gvosdev is a scholar of U.S. defense strategy and Russian foreign policy, and our conversation focused on Russian strategy and escalation pathways in the Ukraine War.

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi are joined by conservative political commentator Jack Hunter. Hunter is the former political editor of Rare.us. Jack has written regularly for the Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Spectator USA, Responsible Statecraft and has appeared in Politico Magazine and The Daily Beast. Hunter is the co-author of the The Tea Party Goes to Washington by Sen. Rand Paul.
In this episode, we discussed why many old-school conservatives would oppose Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's passion for war, what the rise of "civilizationalist" foreign policy on the right means for U.S. grand strategy, and how some Democratic congressional candidates are taking up the "America First" mantle.

Hegseth's Love of War Isn't Conservative: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/conservatives-dont-relish-war/

Could Lindsey Graham's War Cost His Sister a Senate Seat?: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/could-lindsey-grahams-war-cost-his-sister-a-senate-seat/

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi spoke with Sarang Shidore, the Director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the BRICS Summit and his new brief, "Crying Wolf? The United States and BRICS in the Global Order."

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, JQA's John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi are joined by Dr. Daniel Zoughbie to discuss U.S. Middle East policy and his book Kicking the Hornet's Nest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East from Truman to Trump.
Dr. Zoughbie is a complex-systems scientist, a historian, and an expert on presidential decision-making. He is associate project scientist at the Institute of International Studies at UC Berkeley; a faculty affiliate of the UCSF/UCB Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy, and Economics; and a faculty affiliate at the New England Complex Systems Institute in Cambridge. He is also principal investigator of the Middle East and North Africa Diplomacy, Development, and Defense Initiative and author of Indecision Points: George W. Bush and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.