In this episode, Robert Kagan, author of the forthcoming “The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World,” and Thomas Wright, author of “All Measure Short of War: The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power,” discuss with guest host Will Moreland how the success of the post-World War II international order left it vulnerable to internal complacency and external pressure from authoritarian regimes. They explain how at the same time, Trump’s longstanding disdain for global commitments finally found audience with an American public who have forgotten why the U.S. originally engaged in the system of international alliances and institutions designed to defuse the great power conflicts that led to two world wars.
Show notes:
- The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World
- All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the 21st Century and the Future of American Power
- A post-American Europe and the future of U.S. strategy
- NATO’s global peace is unraveling and we can’t see it
- The United States and Russia aren’t allies. But Trump and Putin are.
- Trump’s 19th century foreign policy
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PodcastTrump and the crumbling of the US-led world order
Robert Kagan,
Robert Kagan
Stephen & Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow
- Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Project on International Order and Strategy
Will Moreland,
Will Moreland
Research Analyst
- Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
@MorelandBW
Thomas Wright, and
Thomas Wright
Former Brookings Expert
@thomaswright08
Adrianna Pita
Adrianna Pita
Office of Communications
August 1, 2018