The Vast Majority: Building a Left Foreign Policy with Daniel Bessner
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- Jacobin
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- Fri 17 Jan 2020
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We were terrifyingly close to an open war on Iran recently. The near-miss was a reminder of<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> how brazenly American imperial power is wielded around the world and how easy dragging us back into another major war would be for Trump or anyone else in his position. </font>It also was a reminder that we don't have a real antiwar movement in this country that can fight back against these kinds of escalations.
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I talked about all these issues with Daniel Bessner, a historian and p</font>rofessor of international studies at the University of Washington, as well as the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual and a forthcoming history of the RAND Corporation. He's also a regular contributor to Jacobin.
Daniel's cowritten essay on democratizing US foreign policy: https://www.<wbr />foreignaffairs.com/articles/<wbr />united-states/2017-04-05/<wbr />democratizing-us-foreign-<wbr />policy
Daniel's essay on the continued supremacy of the American military: https://www.<wbr />prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/<wbr />american-us-empire-not-in-<wbr />decline-superpower-trump-<wbr />proves-it-is-stronger-than-<wbr />ever-militarism-daniel-bessner
Daniel's review of George Soros's most recent book: https://jacobinmag.com/<wbr />2020/01/george-soros-defense-<wbr />of-open-society-philanthropy
David Klion's profile of the Quincy Institute: https://www.<wbr />thenation.com/article/quincy-<wbr />institute-responsible-<wbr />statecraft-think-tank/
