Daniel Bessner on Imperialist realism and the international order

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Daniel Bessner discusses liberal imperialism, imperialist realism, and the international order with us.  Daniel Bessner currently holds the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization at the University of Washington. He is a member of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and was previously the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy.  He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. Daniel is an intellectual historian of U.S. foreign relations. He is the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual (Cornell, 2018) and the upcoming Imperialist Realism (forthcoming from Zero Books). He is also the co-host of the brand new American Prestige podcast. 

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