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Why Can't America Retrench?
Episode 189

Why Can't America Retrench?

Power Problems · The Cato Institute

September 17, 202451m 46s

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Peter Harris critiques America’s grand strategy of primacy and advocates for a move to restraint that necessarily includes wholesale reforms to domestic as well as foreign policy. He explains why primacy has persisted despite the wisdom of retrenchment and how decades of an expansive foreign policy has shaped American politics, culture, and institutions. He also discusses the problems of vested interests, partisanship, and how to make restraint more salable to the public.


Show Notes


Peter Harris, Why America Can’t Retrench (and How it Might), Polity Press, 2024.


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