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What is a foreign policy of restraint? Are the Anglosphere and Western Hemisphere key to American interests? Will the transatlantic alliance endure? Do Russia or China pose substantial threats to the United States?
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- 01:38 What is the restraint movement in US foreign policy?
- 06:28 Is military overextension a product of liberal internationalism?
- 12:35 Restraint as a function of generational turnover
- 14:39 What do restrainers want in positive terms?
- 16:49 Progressive and nationalist visions of restraint
- 19:27 What is the influence of your Scottish origins?
- 20:42 A comparison of the British and American empires
- 23:10 The Soviet and Russian threat?
- 26:52 Advancing the US national interest as a Scot
- 29:06 The Anglosphere
- 33:08 A hemispheric foreign policy
- 36:46 Europe in or out?
- 40:44 Ukraine
- 54:42 China
- 1:02:12 Multipolarity
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