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Joseph Nye, a leading scholar of international relations, considers presidents and their foreign policy from FDR to Trump who come up short in the morality polls.
“Foreign Policy” magazine named Nye one of the top 100 Global Thinkers.
Recorded 4/3/2020
In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in U.S. foreign policy during the post-1945 era. Working through each presidency from Truman to Trump, Nye scores their foreign policy on three ethical dimensions: their intentions, the means they used, and the consequences of their decisions. Alongside this, he evaluates their leadership qualities, elaborating on which approaches work and which ones do not.
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Migrating to Prison
For much of America’s history, we simply did not lock people up for migrating here. Yet over the last thirty years, the federal and state governments have increasingly tapped their powers to incarcerate people accused of violating immigration laws. As a result, roughly 400,000 people a year now spend some time locked up pending civil or criminal immigration proceedings.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández‘s new book takes a hard look at the immigration prison system’s origins, how it currently operates, and why. It tackles the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law.
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández is a professor of law at the University of Denver and an immigration lawyer. He runs the blog Crimmigration.com.
Recorded for broadcast 2.19.2020
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The Age Of Illusions
Andrew Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at the Boston University discusses his new book about the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump in conversation with journalist Christopher Lydon, host of Open Source radio.
THE AGE OF ILLUSIONS
How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
How, within a quarter of a century, did the United States end up with gaping inequality, permanent war, moral confusion, and an increasingly angry and alienated population, as well, of course, the strangest president in American history?
Recorded 1/14/2020
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