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The Ambassador
Season 2 · Episode 4

The Ambassador

Autocracy in America

August 1, 202542m 6s

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Show Notes

How should American power be deployed in the world? Since the Cold War, America’s role as a global leader has been up for debate. 

Host Garry Kasparov and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton dissect the state of the neoconservative geopolitical worldview. They consider what the latest iteration of the “America First” foreign-policy rationale signals for democracy worldwide and analyze what it means that the new American right sometimes sounds like the old American left.

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Garry chairs the Renew Democracy Initiative, publisher of The Next Move.

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