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The International Security Podcast

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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.

Latest episodes

11 - The Ideology Trap: China and the Limits of Cold War Analogies

July 16, 2026 · 27 min

Guests: Eun A Jo is an Assistant Professor of Government at William & Mary. Jessica Chen Weiss is David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. International Security…
10 – Why Populists Love Dead Soldiers and Hate Live Officers

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9 – The Rules-Based International Order

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Guests: Marc Trachtenberg is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. International Security Article: Marc Trachtenberg, “The Rules-Based International Order: A Historical Analysis,”…
8 – Airpower and the Sino-American Contest for Military Primacy in Asia

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Guests: Nicholas Anderson is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Daryl Press is Faculty Director of the Davidson Institute and Professor of Government at Dartmouth…
7 – The Realist Debate over How to Respond to China

June 24, 2025 · 31 min

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 Realist Debate over How to Respond to…
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March 31, 2025 · 38 min

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 to 2019. International Security Article…
5 – Competing Visions of Restraint

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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-Director of the Albritton Center for…
4 – Do Autocrats Need a Foreign Enemy?

November 12, 2024 · 24 min

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 University. International Security…