Tony Smith – A Pact with the Devil

Tony Smith at the New America Foundation, discussing some large changes in the way policy is made. The sound quality is pretty bad, you’d think the NAF could get it right. From the description:

Many liberals as well as conservatives supported the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. In his provocative new book A Pact with the Devil: Washington’s Bid for World Supremacy, Tony Smith, professor of political science at Tufts University, criticizes liberal hawks as well as neocons for sharing a common project of American world supremacy.

America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy

James M. Lindsay, Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (which has great site -> www.cfr.org), on the foreign policy of the Bush administration. According to Mr. Lindsay, the Bush foreign policy embraces Wilsonian interventionism while disregarding Wilsonian international institutions and focusing instead on national power.

Conversations with History – Seyla Benhabib

Yale political theorist Seyla Benhabib is UC Berkeley’s Harry Kreisler’s guest in a discussion of how political theory can further our understanding of globalization and its impact on the struggle for human rights.