Foreign Policy
These interviews were made possible by support from the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.
John
Philip Abizaid; U.S. Army, (ret.), Commander of
the U.S. Central Command (2003-2007): "The
Military in the Post 911 World,” 3/12/08
video (2008)
Anders Aslund; Senior
Fellow, Peterson Institute, Washington, D.C.: "Why
Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed in Russia,”2/12/08
video (2008)
Andrew J. Bacevich; Professor of International Relations
and Director, Center for International Relations, Boston University: "The
Military and U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/9/05
video
Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International
Studies: "National Security
in an Age of Sacred Terror," 2/6/06
video
Stephen D. Biddle; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Military
Victory in the Information Age," 1/27/06
video
Max Boot;
Olin Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Small
Wars and U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/12/03; and, "Revolutions
in Military Affairs and the War on Terror," 11/6/06
video (2003) video (2006)
Amy Chua; John M.
Duff, Jr., Professor of Law, Yale Law School: "The
Moment of Empire," 11/16/07
video (2007)
Jonathan Clarke; Foreign Policy Scholar,
The Cato Institute: "The
Neo-Conservatives," 4/4/05
video
Juan Cole; Professor of History, University of Michigan: "The
Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy" 10/20/05
video
Steve Coll; Associate Editor, The Washington
Post: "The Rise of Al Qaeda,"
3/15/05
video
Pamela Constable; Foreign
Correspondent, Washington Post: ”Afghanistan
and Pakistan,” 04/03/08
video (2008)
Steven A. Cook; Douglas
Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "The
Implications of Military Rule for Democratization in the Middle East,” 1/31/08
video (2008)
Mark Danner; Journalist
and Staff Writer a the New Yorker: "Ideas
and Leadership in U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/3/99; and "Truth,
Power, and the Iraq Debacle," 7/27/07
video (2007)
Ambassador James Dobbins; Director of the International Security
and Defense Policy Center, Rand Corporation: "Nation
Building ," 2/28/05
video
James Fallows; National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly: "U.S.
Foreign Policy and the Bush Administration," 3/28/05
video
Farer, Tom;
Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver: "Confronting
Global Terrorism: The Elements of a Liberal Grand Strategy," 4/16/07
video
Niall
Ferguson; Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University: "The
War of the World," 10/19/06
video
David Frum; resident fellow, American Interprise
Institute: "Foreign Policy
Ideas in George W. Bush Administration," 1/20/04
video
Leon Fuerth; Research Professor of International Affairs, Elliott
School, George Washington University: "Thinking
about the Future," 2/7/05
video
Robert Gallucci; Dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown
University: "U.S. Foreign
Policy and Multilateral Negotiations," 2/11/02
video
Fawaz
A. Gerges; Christian
A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College:
"Inside
Muslim Militancy,” 8/29/2007
video
Michael Gordon; Military Correspondent, The New York Times:
"The Invasion and Occupation
of Iraq," 3/21/06
video
Victor Davis Hanson; Senior Felllow, Hoover Institution: "Iraq
and the Lessons of the Peloponnesian War," 3/14/06
video
Stephen Holmes; Walter
E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law: "America’s
Reckless Response To Terror," 2/15/08
video (2008)
John
Hulsman: Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin): Ethical
Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy," 10/25/06 (with Anatol Lieven)
video
Robert Jervis; Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics,
Columbia University: "American
Foreign Policy in a New Era," 11/17/05
video
Josef Joffe;
Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit: "The
Imperial Temptation of America,"
10/22/07
video
Chalmers
Johnson; President, Japan Policy Research Institute: "The
Last Days of the American Republic " 03/7/07
video
Parag
Khanna; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation: ”Global
Competition and the Rise of the Second World,” 03/21/08
video (2008)
Stephen
D.Krasner; Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations,
Stanford University: "Sovereignty," 3/31/03;
"System Change
or More of the Same", 10/29/2007;
video (2003) video (2007)
Anatol Lieven; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Peace: "American
Nationalism," 5/6/04; and, as
Senior Fellow, New America Foundation: "Ethical
Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy" (with John Hulsman), 10/25/06
video (2004) video (2006)
Ian Lustick; Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania: "Coming
to Terms with Israel," 3/4/02; and "Trapped
in the War on Terror," 5/1/06
video (2002) video (2006)
Edward
Luttwak; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Georgetown University: "Strategy," 3/10/87; "The
Logic of Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy,"11/05/07
video (1987) video (2007)
Princeton Lyman; Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign
Relations: "U.S. Foreign Policy
and Globalization," 2/28/02; and "A
Strategic U.S. Approach to Africa," 2/16/06
video (2002) video (2006)
Kishore
Mahbubani; Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy: "The
Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West,” 2/22/08
video (2008)
James Mann; Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Johns
Hopkins University: "The Bush
War Cabinet" 2/14/05
video
Jack Matlock; former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet
Union: "Collapse of Soviet Union and
End of the Cold War," 2/13/97
video
Walter
Russell Mead; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations "U.S.
Foreign Policy and the American Political Tradition," 2/25/03; "American
Grand Strategy in a World at Risk," 5/10/04; and "Britain
and America and the Making of the Modern World," 10/23/07
video (2003) video (2004) video (2007)
John Mearsheimer;
R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University
of Chicago: "Through
the Realist Lens," 4/8/02video (2002);
and "Domestic Policy
and International Relations" 9/19/07; video (2007)
Michael Nacht; Dean and Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley: "Changing
Paradigms in National Security Policy," 1/9/03
video
Michael B. Oren; Historian and Writer; Senior Fellow at the Shalem
Center, Jerusalem: "War in History
and in Fiction," 11/8/05
video
Robert A. Pape; Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago: "The
Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," 2/16/06
video
Trita Parsi; Adjunct
Professor of International Relations at School for Advanced International
Studies,Johns Hopkins University.: "Iran,
Israel, and the United States,” 11/30/07
video (2007)
Samantha
Power;
author, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide: "Genocide
and U.S. Foreign Policy," 4/29/02; "Chasing
the Flame," 2/26/08
video (2002) video (2008)
Louise Richardson; Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for
Advanced Study at Harvard University: "What
Terrorists Want ," 9/19/07
video
Karim
Sadjadpour;
Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Iran:
Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy" 10/8/07
video
Michael
Scheuer; Former Chief of the CIA bin Laden unit: "America
and Islam After Iraq,” 3/12/08
video (2008)
Peter
Dale Scott;
Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley: "Wealth,
Empire, and the Future of America," 8/8/07
video
Tom Segev; Columnist, Haaretz: "Israel
and the 1967 War," 3/22/07
video
Susan Shirk;
Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies,
UCSD; and China specialist: "China
and the United States," 11/8/01 and "Domestic
Politics and International Behavior: The Case of China and the U.S.," 6/28/07
video (2001) video (2007)
Jennifer Sims; Former Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and
Planning, Department of State: "Intelligence
and National Security in a Democracy," 2/11/02
video
Harold Palmer Smith, Jr., Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy,
UC Berkeley: "Thinking about
the 'Unthinkables' in the Post-9/11 World," 1/26/06
video
Mark Steyn; Journalist: "America,
Europe, and the Islamic World, " 3/14/07
video
Peter Tarnoff; former Undersecretary of State; former President,
Council on Foreign Relations: "Foreign
Policy in a Democracy," 10/13/99
video
Stephen M.
Walt; Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs,
Kennedy School, Harvard University: "Balancing
American Power in the Post-9/11 World," 11/15/05video (2005);
and "Domestic Policy
and International Relations" 9/19/07 video (2007)
Colonel
Lawrence Wilkerson; U.S. Army (ret.), Chief of Staff to the Secretary
of State (2002-2005): ”Vice
President Cheney and America's Response to 911,” 04/03/08
video (2008)
Howard Wolpe; Congressional
Representative and Chair of the House Subcommitteeon Africa: "The
Role of Congress in Foreign Policy," 11/12/82
video
Frederick S.
Wyle; Esq.:"National Security
and the Rule of Law," 12/05/07
video (2007)
John Yoo; Professor
of Law, University of California, Berkeley: "The
Shaping of a Legal Response to 911,” 1/24/08
video (2008)
Anthony Zinni;
Former Commander in Chief of the Central Command: "Challenges
for U.S. National Security Policy," 4/23/07 video
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