The International Security Podcast
Leading scholars provide insight on urgent policy debates. Jeff Friedman of Dartmouth College interviews contributors to the premiere peer-reviewed journal of security studies. They offer sophisticated, authoritative analyses of contemporary, theoretical, and historical security issues from the role of China in the world and cyber in international security to the long history of ethnic cleansing in Europe. The podcast is produced at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. International Security is a quarterly journal edited at the Belfer Center and published by MIT Press.
- Update frequency
- every 48 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China
Guests: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.
International Security Article: Stephen M. Walt, “Hedging on Hegemony: The Real…
6 – Putin’s Preventive War
Guests: Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the MIT Security Studies Program, which he directed from 2006 …
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint
Guests: Miranda Priebe is a senior political scientist and director of the Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy at RAND. John Schuessler is Associate Professor of International Affairs and Co-D…
4 – Do Autocrats Need a Foreign Enemy?
Guests: Henry Hale is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University. Adam Lenton is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest…
3 – Fatalism and War
Guests:
Dominic Tierney is Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College.
International Security Article: Dominic Tierney “The Iron Dice: Fatalism and War,” International Security, …
2 - Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
Guests:
Şener Aktürk is Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye.
International Security Article: Şener Aktürk, “Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreli…
1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?
Guest:
Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University.
International Security Article:
This podcast is based on Matthew Evangelista, “A ‘Nuclear …
17-The Little-Known History of Radiological Weapons
Guests:
Sarah Bidgood is Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
16-Concealing and Revealing Clandestine Military Capabilities
Guests:
Austin Long is Vice Deputy Director for Strategic Stability in the Joint Staff J5 at the U.S. Department of Defense.
Ernest J. Herold is Executive Director of the International Institute for St…
15-Technology, Diplomacy, and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Guests:
Christopher Lawrence is Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
Ankit Panda is the Stanto…
14-Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Cheater’s Dilemma
Guests:
Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, where she also directs the Oslo Nuclear Project and the Peace and Conflict Studies Master’s Program.
13-What Allies Want: A Look at East Asia
Guests:
Iain D. Henry is a Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
Abraham M. Denmark is the Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Inte…
12-Liberal Values, Material Interests, and the Inconsistencies of U.S. Democracy Promotion
Guests:
Arman Grigoryan is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Lehigh University.
Sarah Sewall is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center and Executive Vice…
11-Rethinking the Norms and Practices of U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Guests:
Risa Brooks is the Allis Chalmers Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
10-Great Power Politics in the Middle East and Arab-Israeli Conflict—Détente to 2020
Guests:
Galen Jackson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Williams College.
Aaron David Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003,…
09-U.S. Electoral Constraints, Military Strategy, and the Iraq War
Guests
Andrew Payne is the Hedley Bull Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford.
Emma Sky is the director of the Yale World Fellows Program and a Senior Fellow at Yale Uni…
08-Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation
Guests:
Fiona Cunningham is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University.
Admiral Cecil Haney (ret.) previously served as the Commander of t…
07-The Post-Conflict Politics of Migration and Refugee Return
Guests:
Stephanie Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California.
Anne C. Richard served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refu…
06-Deterring Wartime Atrocities and the Yugoslav Tribunal
Guests:
Jacqueline R. McAllister is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College.
Wesley K. Clark is a retired four-star general in the U.S. Army and was the Supreme Allied Commander E…
05-Domestic Politics, Nuclear Choices, and the Iran Deal
Guests:
Elizabeth Saunders is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a faculty member in the Security Studies Program. She is also a Non-Reside…