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The Early Unipolar Moment Roots of America’s Post-9/11 Foreign Policy with Emma Ashford (opens the original)
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On this week's episode of Security Dilemma , Dr. Emma Ashford of the Stimson Center joined the show to discuss how the 9/11 terror attacks turbocharged the worst impulses of U.S. foreign policy, but that the shift towards interventionism was already well underway in the 1990s. Dr. Ashford is a Senior Fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy program at the Stimson Center, where her work focuses on questions of grand strategy, international security, and the future of US foreign policy. She h
From FISA to Flock: Post-9/11 Surveillance in America with Abigail Hall (opens the original)
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On this week's episode of Security Dilemma , co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi spoke with Dr. Abigail Hall . Dr. Hall is a Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa and a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute . She has co-authored several books including Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism , Manufacturing Militarism: US Government Propaganda in the War on Terror , and How to Run Wars: A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite . In this episode, we
How to Deliver on NATO 3.0 with Miranda Priebe (opens the original)
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On this week's episode of Security Dilemma , co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi sat down with Dr. Miranda Priebe to discuss her new article in Orbis (https://orbisjournal.org/commentary/how-to-deliver-on-nato-3-0/) about the changes the Trump Administration needs to make if its NATO 3.0 burden-shifting initiative is to bear fruit. Dr. Priebe is the Director of the Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy and a Senior Political Scientist at RAND. Her work at RAND has focused on grand strategy,
The Conservative Case Against the Interventionist Right with Luke Nicastro (opens the original)
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On this week's episode of Security Dilemma , co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi speak with Luke Nicastro of The American Conservative about foreign policy on the Hill, European security, the defense industrial base, and ending America's misadventures in Iran and Venezuela. Luke is a Senior Editor at TAC , but before joining the magazine, he spent nearly a decade working on defense and foreign policy in both government and industry, most recently as National Security Advisor to U.S. Senator Josh
America's Counterproductive Middle East Presence with Jon Hoffman (opens the original)
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On this week's episode of Security Dilemma , co-hosts John Gay and A.J. Manuzzi spoke with the Cato Institute's Jon Hoffman about his article (https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/24/washington-iran-hormuz-oil-bases-middle-east-restraint-war/) in Foreign Policy and why America's military presence in the Middle East does more harm than good for U.S. security. Jon is a research fellow in defense and foreign policy at the Cato Institute. His research interests include U.S. foreign policy in the Middle
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