Season 3, Episode 2: ISD Director of Programs and Research Kelly McFarland talks to scholars of U.S. foreign policy Emma Ashford from the Atlantic Council and Charles Edel from the Wilson Center. Emma and Charlie debate some of the key questions in U.S. foreign policy on relations with China, Russia, and climate change, and the role of historical analogies in that process. 

Featured articles and books:

Charles Edel, Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order (Yale University Press, 2019)

Ernest May, "Lessons" of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 1973)

Emma Ashford, "Strategies of Restraint," Foreign Affairs, September/October 2021

Joshua Shifrinson and Stephen Wertheim, "Biden the Realist," Foreign Affairs, September 9, 2021

Andrew S. Erickson and Gabriel Collins, "Competition With China Can Save the Planet," Foreign Affairs, May/June 2021

David Kang and Xinru Ma, "Power Transitions: Thucydides Didn’t Live in East Asia," The Washington Quarterly, Volume 41, 2018 - Issue 1

Episode recorded: Friday, September 10th, 2021. 

Episode image: Deputy Secretary Sherman Meets with People’s Republic of China Appointed Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on August 12, 2021 [State Department photo/Public Domain].

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