Episodes List

10 – Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers
29 Apr, 2026
9 – The Rules-Based International Order
02 Feb, 2026
8 – Airpower and the Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia
10 Oct, 2025
7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China
24 Jun, 2025
6 – Putin’s Preventive War
31 Mar, 2025
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint
19 Feb, 2025
4 – Do Autocrats Need a Foreign Enemy?
12 Nov, 2024
3 – Fatalism and War
10 Oct, 2024
2 - Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
18 Jun, 2024
1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?
20 Mar, 2024
17-The Little-Known History of Radiological Weapons
22 Jun, 2021
16-Concealing and Revealing Clandestine Military Capabilities
22 Jun, 2021
15-Technology, Diplomacy, and the North Korean Nuclear Crisis
06 May, 2021
14-Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Cheater’s Dilemma
16 Mar, 2021
13-What Allies Want: A Look at East Asia
10 Dec, 2020
12-Liberal Values, Material Interests, and the Inconsistencies of U.S. Democracy Promotion
09 Oct, 2020
11-Rethinking the Norms and Practices of U.S. Civil-Military Relations
20 Aug, 2020
10-Great Power Politics in the Middle East and Arab-Israeli Conflict—Détente to 2020
24 Jul, 2020
09-U.S. Electoral Constraints, Military Strategy, and the Iraq War
18 Jun, 2020
08-Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation
15 Apr, 2020
07-The Post-Conflict Politics of Migration and Refugee Return
08 Apr, 2020
06-Deterring Wartime Atrocities and the Yugoslav Tribunal
01 Apr, 2020
05-Domestic Politics, Nuclear Choices, and the Iran Deal
13 Feb, 2020
04-How to Enlarge NATO
15 Jan, 2020
03-Debating ‘The End of War’
20 Dec, 2019
02-Chinese Coercion in the South China Sea
14 Nov, 2019