IS: Off the Page Podcast
1) 8 – Airpower and the Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia
Nicholas Anderson and Daryl Press argue that the current U.S. approach for operating airpower to defend Taiwan risks catastrophic defeat. They have created a new, unclassified, and transparent model t...Show More
2) 7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China
Will China make a bid for regional hegemony in East Asia, and can it succeed? In the modern era, only the United States has achieved regional hegemony—all other attempts have met catastrophic failure....Show More
3) 6 – Putin’s Preventive War
Episode Summary: Why did Vladimir Putin decide to invade Ukraine in 2022? Barry Posen argues that Putin’s decision is consistent with the logic of preventive war. Increasing U.S. and NATO military coo...Show More
4) 5 – Competing Visions of Restraint
At least since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, some scholars and policymakers have called for retrenching the United States’ global military presence. Miranda Priebe and John Schuessler discuss rea...Show More
5) 4 – Do Autocrats Need a Foreign Enemy?
Conventional thinking suggests that autocrats need foreign enemies to bolster their regimes’ popularity at home. Russia’s Vladimir Putin is often thought to reap domestic legitimacy from belligerence....Show More
6) 3 – Fatalism and War
Dominic Tierney discusses his recent article, “The Iron Dice: Fatalism and War.” National leaders often exhibit fatalism, or the belief that events are guided by forces beyond their control. Fatalism ...Show More
7) 2 - Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Şener Aktürk discusses his recent article, “Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe.” Ethnic cleansing is often seen as a specifically modern phenomenon....Show More
8) 1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?
In this episode, Matthew Evangelista discusses his recent International Security article, “A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine? Precedents and Possibilities for Postwar European Security.” How can Ukrain...Show More
9) 16-Concealing and Revealing Clandestine Military Capabilities
In this episode, we explore when and why states reveal their clandestine military capabilities. Specifically, we discuss the role of the private sector in helping to develop and conceal such capabilit...Show More
10) 17-The Little-Known History of Radiological Weapons
In this episode, we examine the rise and demise of radiological weapons programs in the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s. In particular, we discuss how this underexplored hist...Show More