Why Does US Foreign Policy Keep Failing?
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Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs, discusses US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War at IDEASpHERE at Harvard Kennedy School on May 16, 2014.
I have a lot of respect for Walt's work and read it regularly. Truthful, sober analysis- very atypical for prominent American intellectuals who comment on foreign affairs.
*"They're the gang that can't shoot straight"* -Prof. John Mearshheimer
Because the mindset of the leading social class is so oriented to keeping power and using hegemonistic rule methods, like the British, and they lack all humility or will to do introspection.
"truth to power kills your career " Remarkable that nobody in the audience was alarmed that he said out loud that we were lied to about the Iraq war, and other foreign policy issues.
Professors Walt and Mearsheimer are American gems . We need more people like them to be invited on mainstream media as well!
Foreign policy in Afghanistan has been a great success. Those poppy fields are producing like never before. It isn't the Taliban who are profiting it is all the 'right people'.
The Taliban al Qaeda organization, supported by the CIA of the United States, received training in Taiwan. The U.S. has lifted a stone and hit itself in the foot.
And today taliban controls a country
This aged unbelievably well
Right people? You mean it was the US that’s profiting, making billions from those poppy fields, right?
This comment didn't age well
It is failing in a way that you can't imagine 9 years later.
The mention of Ukraine startled me until I remembered Crimea.
On the answer to that last question, there's an interesting lecture about "why US generals were so effective in WWII and so inneffective now" (or something like that) by a journalist/historian specialized on the subject.
Love it, the good Doctors, as per usual, laying that beatdown flawlessly.
American exceptionalism at its best.
Is the audience having dinner while he speaks? Whatever is going on in the background is really distracting.
The WashDC foreign policy establishment trying to jam the speech.
Great talk!
The clamoring and commentary from the audience makes me wonder if they were half listening at all. Nobody really adds to the discussion, rather shouts out the bit they understood while trying to signal they’re on the correct side of the issue. These people are part of the problem.
56:00 US diplomats and OSS officers did understood the nature of the Vietnamese struggle - policemakers, pushing back the anti colonialist approach of Roosevelt - decided it was more important to help France recover quickly because they feared leftist forces would raise to power through democratic means. The source is PBS' "Vietnam: A Television History".
9 years later still trying to "pivot to Asia". But we made such a mess of Middle East we can't get out. To say nothing of Central American.
one simple sentence: arrogance
That’s a word, not a sentence.
would have been nice to see the slides as well
Seanoutdoors have him do it again
54:43 It seems they really learned how to use historical analogies for rhetoric purposes but they did not learn how to use history as a source for analysis.
Just look at the mess we are now have on our hands in the Ukraine and Gaza. We never learn and this will be our downfall.
Good lecture
He jumped over the Reagan Administration completely. How is that possible? Because Reagan ignored the consensus at the State Dept thereby securing the greatest foreign policy success in the post war period.
Nonsense! The USSR failed because of internal corruption and because its leaders in Russia did not wish to be governed by the President of the USSR. They dis-integrated the USSR into its individual components of which Russia was one.
@@goedelite You must have been in the crib asleep.
What fuckedup society bloody thirsty society called USA 🇺🇸 killed millions of people around the globe
brilliant
Prof. Walt made a comprehensive summary of US foreign policy events, but one would gain more by tracing in depth analysis of inter- 37:58 actions with a couple of countries, e.g. Iraq or China.
LOL and look at what happened with Syria two years later.
US , Israel and Sunni countries funded and assisted ISIS and got fucked.
*built to spill
Foreign policy is wonderful we should sacrificing more
we're not powerful enough, simple answer
at the beginning of the talk he said something like he doesnt believe conspiracy has a impact and by and large the people involved try to do the right thing but when he broke it down conspiracy and bad motives seem to be at the heart of failures from misleading the public -- how to be an insider- motives-and very little about the number one overriding problem corporate and elite hegemony.
Yes, it was like a wink and nod disclaimer.
b/c It's DESIGNED 2 FAIL #ORDOABCHAO
Because the current foreign policy is suited to benefit Israel and not the USA
Arctic Grayling Obama is not hostile to Israel.Israel is hostile to Obama.And I'm saying this as a right winger
Arctic Grayling Obama is not hostile to Israel.Israel is hostile to Obama.And I'm saying this as a right winger
The solution is simple, keep bombing foreign countries and bringing the displaced to the U.S. and Europe. Time for more interracial mingling.
HOW IS IT FAILING WHEN THEY KEEP SMASHING THEIR ENEMIES/RIVALS FOR A CENTRY OR TWO.
Number one Mr. Harvard professor I guess you haven't been paying attention but look at what Trump is doing. I realize this video is very old but I would have thought you would come back out abd praised Trump. I hope you support him because I am very suspicious that you might have sold out to China as did a few of your fellow colleagues.
Lmfao! I just literally said the same exact thing. Not one bullshit war under trump. Peace treaties signed. Not even 4 months into the radical left administration shit be picking up where it left off under Obama.
I just happened to look up about history of past gas drama and o I wars and came across this knucklehead
And all wars are banker's wars
America never had a businessman as our leader like we had in Trump
He seems really close to pretty much conceding that Russia was justified in taking parts of Ukraine, and Chine would be justified in doing the same, for "historical reasons".
I wonder how much the CCP contributed to this guys wallet.
Pointing out mistakes is bad?
educate yourself pls.
America "right or wrong" often ends up "wrong"