Trump, Biden, and Foreign Policy Missteps - Stephen Walt | Endgame

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About the Episode:
A realist’s critique on the “failures” of the US foreign policy in the Middle East, Russia, and China—and how “we’re paying the price for that in a variety of ways now.”

About Luminary:
Stephen Walt is a Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School who has been teaching at Harvard since the 1980s. He is also a best-selling author and a columnist at ‘Foreign Policy’. Some of his popular books are “The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy” (2018) and “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” (2007).

About the Host:
Gita Wirjawan is an Indonesian entrepreneur, educator, and Honorary Professor of Politics and International Relations at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham. He is also a visiting scholar at The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University (2022—2024) and a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Timestamp:
00:00 - Intro
02:53 - Stephen Walt’s definition of realism
05:18 - Has the US allocated its power wisely?
09:38 - Trump, Biden, and foreign policy failures
12:11 - Gap between public opinion and policy
15:19 - Russia-China alliance: The US’ hubris and naiveté
21:47 - Israel-Palestine possible resolutions
27:29 - Israel lobby and backlash from society
33:37 - Hope for normalization
36:16 - Iran’s strategic silence: “the most grown up, prudent, pragmatic”
41:48 - Who will run Asia?
45:43 - US’ realistic goal

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