The Vast Majority: Building a Left Foreign Policy with Daniel Bessner

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.&lt;wbr /&gt;foreignaffairs.com/articles/&lt;wbr /&gt;united-states/2017-04-05/&lt;wbr /&gt;democratizing-us-foreign-&lt;wbr /&gt;policy

Daniel's essay on the continued supremacy of the American military: https://www.&lt;wbr /&gt;prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/&lt;wbr /&gt;american-us-empire-not-in-&lt;wbr /&gt;decline-superpower-trump-&lt;wbr /&gt;proves-it-is-stronger-than-&lt;wbr /&gt;ever-militarism-daniel-bessner

Daniel's review of George Soros's most recent book: https://jacobinmag.com/&lt;wbr /&gt;2020/01/george-soros-defense-&lt;wbr /&gt;of-open-society-philanthropy