Stephen Sestanovich, "American Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective"

[@straborn]

A great and insightful lecture

[@zamkhanthang9103]

Thanks

[@adamismail9137]

What ever when ever I am proud by American

[@thinker1830]

fantastic critiques of Mearsheimer and Walt

[@seanmatthewking]

Why does 2007 look like 1987?

[@SuperNerd707]

Interesting that this talk was in 2009, given all that has happened since then

[@margaretheitz7428]

wasn't it given in 2007? I thought I heard him mention a Global Warming article in "today's NYT "-- 10/07

[@moxin87]

I found the domestic policy section to be enlightening. But the rest was naive conventional wisdom. Democracy promotion in nearly every case has been subservient to perceived economic interests. Big oil more than anything else dominates our position in the middle east.

[@moxin87]

In other words, our sobs outnumber us backed democracies 10-1, especially outside of w europe.

[@lathanlalane]

dannng how do i get that s/a war cheat sheet.

[@caribbeanqueen1389]

Democratization leads to soft power... which is getting people to want what you want.

[@aaronvisser3706]

Listening to this after a lecture by Noam Chomsky and the drop in quality is incredible. The speaker provides no actual evidence that the US has any record of support for democracies, only regarding the few cases where we call for human rights in enemy states.

[@janeeire2439]

15:40

[@caribbeanqueen1389]

Multilatetalism doesn't work without a global arbiter.

[@realistblue-_-136]

Ie the un imf wbo Cbo these global institutions are dedicated to make unilateral decisions the appear to be multilateral on the surface look to the countries that changes their entire economies so they can receive loans because they are third world countries these countries are essentially forced to bend the knee to these western value institutions that really don’t have a clue how detrimental these “adjustments” are

[@josh4466]

Stephen Colbert

[@caribbeanqueen1389]

The issue with multilaterslism is that it's not as simple as people think. It often leads to a paralysis in decision making and action. And whole Rome burns... the U.S. have been forced to take unilateral policy stances that some may deem problematic.

[@maxheadrom3088]

I think he what he meant by multilateralism is domestic multilateralism.

[@aaronvisser3706]

Note the almost complete disregarding of American policies towards non-European states, who have a different experience of American democracy promotion.

[@alexanderwalters7657]

he lost me when he said egypt was in the middle east

[@taihalpern7342]

I mean...it is

[@ivanferraz8914]

Maybe he was trying to explain about the relation of Egypt on Middle East. I believe that he knows that Egypt is located geographically in Africa, but it's geopolitical area of influence and interaction emcompasses North Africa and Middle East for sure.