Security Dilemma

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi spoke with Danny Bessner about his new article in The Ideas Letter (https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/power-without-ideology/?) about why the emerging multipolar world order will be less characterized by ideological contestation than by spheres of influence. Danny is the is the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and co-host of the foreign affairs podcast American Prestige (https://americanprestigepod.com/) with fellow former SD guest Derek Davison.
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Upcoming recordings include:
JQAS Revisits the Marcellus Papers
How the China Consensus Came to Be and What It Misses with Jake Werner

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi have a conversation with the Quincy Institute's Nick Cleveland-Stout about his research on the foreign influence lobby in Washington and how foreign and corporate influence distort American foreign policy.
Nick is a research associate in the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at QI. He investigates foreign influence, think tank funding, and war profiteering. Previously, he conducted research on US-Brazil relations as a Fulbright fellow at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Nick has been involved with JQAS in some capacity for years, co-founding a JQAS campus chapter at Colorado College before completing the Society’s Marcellus Policy Fellowship, and now serving as a JQAS Strategic Leaders Fellow.

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World Order After the Iran War with Danny Bessner

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, Dr. Lyle Goldstein returns to the show to discuss the Trump-Xi summit, Washington's China policy, and his new co-authored book on Russia-China maritime cooperation and its implications for U.S. grand strategy (The New Cold War at Sea: Maritime Implications of the China-Russia Quasi-Alliance - available now at https://www.amazon.com/New-Cold-War-Sea-Quasi-Alliance/dp/1682479943). Dr. Goldstein is the Director of the Asia Program at Defense Priorities, as well as Director of the China Initiative at the Brown University Watson Institute. He is the founder of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the Naval War College.
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Upcoming recordings include:
Tracking Foreign Influence with Nick Cleveland-Stout
World Order After the Iran War with Danny Bessner

This week on Security Dilemma, John Gay and guest co-host Adam Abdel-Qader spoke with Dr. Jon Lindsay about his new book, Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (https://www.jstor.org/content/oa_book_monograph/10.7591/jj.24033720). Dr. Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. His research focuses on the role of emerging technology in global security. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, he served in the U.S. Navy with operational assignments in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
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Upcoming recordings include:
The Foreign Influence Fight for War with Iran with Nick Cleveland-Stout
World Order After the Iran War with Danny Bessner

On this week's episode of Security Dilemma, co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi interviewed Dr. Jasen Castillo and Dr. John Schuessler, both Associate Professors and Co-Directors of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at Texas A&M University, about U.S. grand strategy and their current projects on extended deterrence and whether the United States can learn to live with rival regional hegemons.  Prior to joining A&M, Dr. Castillo worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Strategy and Plans Office, as well as at the RAND Corporation. Currently, he is working on a book project exploring the military requirements of deterrence and U.S. nuclear weapons policy. Dr. Schuessler, meanwhile, previously taught at the Air War College, was chair of the Foreign Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, and wrote the book Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy.
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Upcoming recordings include:
JQAS Discusses the Marcellus Papers
Cyber Deterrence with Jon Lindsay
Russia-China Maritime Cooperation with Lyle Goldstein
The Foreign Influence Fight for War with Iran with Nick Cleveland-Stout
World Order After the Iran War with Danny Bessner