Horns of a Dilemma

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Brought to you by the Texas National Security Review, this podcast features lectures, interviews, and panel discussions at The University of Texas at Austin.

Episode Date
Remembering Joseph Nye
May 13, 2025
Dual Use Deception: How Technology Shapes Cooperation in International Relations
Jan 15, 2025
Machine Failing: The Linkage Between Software Development Flaws and Military Accidents
Jan 10, 2025
Davy Crockett and the Boy Scouts: The Korean War and Mismanaging Protracted Conflict
Jan 03, 2025
Soviet-India Relations: Cold War Contest and Cooperation
Dec 20, 2024
Australian and New Zealand Views on the U.S. Relationship
Dec 13, 2024
The War of Words Between FDR and Charles Lindbergh
Dec 06, 2024
Hunting for Submarines in the Warming Ocean
Nov 29, 2024
Drones, AI, and the Changing Nature of Warfare
Nov 15, 2024
How China Uses Economic Sanctions
Nov 01, 2024
Access Denied? Non-Aligned State Decisions to Grant Access During War
Oct 25, 2024
The Political Thought of Xi Jinping
Oct 18, 2024
Combatant Command and the Intersection of Policy and Military Execution
Oct 11, 2024
Russia, Central Asia, and the U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Oct 04, 2024
Wisdom for a World in Turmoil
Sep 27, 2024
Placing Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait in the Context of the End of the Cold War
Sep 20, 2024
Sport and War: Martin Pengelly on his book "Brotherhood"
Sep 13, 2024
The Debate Over Why the United States Invaded Iraq in 2003
Sep 06, 2024
Great-Power Expectations in Europe
Aug 30, 2024
Estimating China's Defense Spending: How to Get It Wrong (and Right)
Aug 23, 2024
History and Perspective in Statecraft and War
Aug 16, 2024
Introducing our new editor-in-chief, Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Aug 09, 2024
Mitigating Risks in a Volatile World: A Conversation with Philip Zelikow
Jul 26, 2024
Why the United States Failed to Retrench from Europe during the Early Cold War
Jul 19, 2024
Salami Tactics in the Shadow of Major War
Jul 12, 2024
Joseph Nye on Scholarship and Practice in International Relations
Jun 28, 2024
The Difficult Balance of Constitutional Statesmanship During Times of War
Jun 21, 2024
The Pivot to Asia Remains Incomplete
Jun 14, 2024
Sweden, Finland, and the Meaning of Alliance Membership
Jun 07, 2024
From Panic to Policy: The Limits of Foreign Propaganda and the Foundations of an Effective Response
May 28, 2024
Why the Humanities Still Matter in Higher Education
May 14, 2024
The Evolution of China's Navy
May 03, 2024
The Multiple Collisions Involved in the War in Ukraine
Apr 26, 2024
Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents
Apr 19, 2024
South Korea's Grand Strategy
Apr 12, 2024
Fighting in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Apr 05, 2024
Understanding the Defense Department's Industrial Base Problems
Mar 23, 2024
George Shultz and the End of the Cold War
Mar 15, 2024
AI and Making the Supply Chain More Robust
Mar 08, 2024
America's Effort to Shield Itself
Mar 05, 2024
The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion
Feb 23, 2024
European Security and the Russo-Ukrainian War
Feb 09, 2024
Foreign Policy In the Johnson Years
Jan 11, 2024
China's Digital Data Trafficking
Jan 05, 2024
Government Historians and Engagement with Classified Information
Jan 02, 2024
The Media, Secrecy and Transparency
Dec 29, 2023
A Conversation with Sen. John Cornyn
Dec 22, 2023
The Future of Presidential Libraries
Dec 19, 2023
Using Technology to Solve the Declassification Problem
Dec 15, 2023
Classification and Scholarship
Dec 12, 2023
Counter-Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities
Dec 08, 2023
Russian Opposition to Totalitarianism
Dec 05, 2023
The Making of the American Hegemon
Dec 01, 2023
Keeping the Nation's Secrets
Nov 28, 2023
How Will the Russo-Ukrainian War End?
Nov 24, 2023
Investigating Russian War Crimes: Ukraine’s Quest for Justice
Nov 21, 2023
Seeds of Division Between Russia and China
Nov 17, 2023
A Conversation with Dr. Paul Edgar and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
Nov 07, 2023
A Conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Nov 01, 2023
Israel's 9/11
Oct 20, 2023
China's Law of the Sea
Oct 03, 2023
Confronting Saddam Hussein
Sep 29, 2023
The Nuclear Club
May 08, 2023
Lessons From A White House Intelligence Briefer
May 05, 2023
European Security After the War in Ukraine
May 03, 2023
Reagan's War Stories
May 01, 2023
The Bureau of Things That Keep You Up At Night
Mar 31, 2023
Corps Capabilities: Redesigning the Marine Corps for the Modern Indo-Pacific
Mar 24, 2023
Hard Power, Hard Choices, and Cold, Hard Cash
Mar 17, 2023
Dealers in Hope? Leadership in the Russia-Ukraine War
Mar 10, 2023
The Hard Politics of Soft Power
Mar 03, 2023
Transition in a Time of Transition
Feb 24, 2023
A Hard Act to Follow: Explaining Authoritarian Succession
Feb 17, 2023
What Happens if the Balloon Goes Up With China?
Feb 10, 2023
The Truth Shall Set You Free: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in the Cold War
Jan 27, 2023
The Contradictions of J. Edgar Hoover
Jan 20, 2023
The Arc of a Covenant
Jan 13, 2023
Reconstructing the Roots of January 6
Jan 06, 2023
Dauntless Courage at Midway
Dec 23, 2022
The Ghost of Missiles Past
Dec 16, 2022
Freedom and the Rule of Law
Dec 09, 2022
China's Campaign Against the Uyghur People
Dec 02, 2022
How the Gipper Won
Nov 27, 2022
When the (Micro) Chips Are Down
Nov 18, 2022
The Politics of Passion
Nov 11, 2022
Keeping Civil-Military Relations Civil
Nov 04, 2022
See Power? Seapower!
Oct 28, 2022
A Remembrance of Things Not Actually Past
Oct 14, 2022
Avoiding War With the Army You Want
Oct 07, 2022
When You Wish Upon a Tsar
Sep 30, 2022
An Overview of Strategy Down Under
Sep 23, 2022
Ideology and America's View of the World
Sep 16, 2022
Afghan Crucible
Sep 09, 2022
Compassion, Control, and Complications: 19th Century British Anti-Slavery Efforts
Sep 02, 2022
Protecting Civilians in War: Law, Politics, Strategy, and Morality
Aug 26, 2022
Storm Center? The Future of U.S.-Chinese Relations
Aug 19, 2022
Everything You Wanted to Know About History and Foreign Policy (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Aug 12, 2022
Healthy Worry About Healthy Civil-Military Relations
Aug 05, 2022
Remembering Robert Jervis, Part II
Jul 26, 2022
Remembering Robert Jervis, Part I
Jul 12, 2022
History is What States Make of It
Jun 24, 2022
We Have Met the Enemy and They are Us
Jun 17, 2022
Word Politics
Jun 07, 2022
Sanctioned Behavior
Jun 03, 2022
The Chinese Fox Guarding the Human Rights Henhouse
May 27, 2022
War Crime and Punishment
May 20, 2022
Solidarity with Ukraine
May 13, 2022
Foreword to Victory: Paul Kennedy Speaks on the Naval History of World War II
May 06, 2022
Can you spare a DIME? The full range of foreign policy tools in Latin America
Apr 29, 2022
Your Orders are not on Paper: Changing Political Order in the Long Twentieth Century
Apr 22, 2022
Second Thoughts About the Third World
Apr 14, 2022
The Army, the Government, and the People in the Russo-Ukrainian War
Apr 08, 2022
Getting Rid of Unpleasant (Nerve) Gas
Apr 01, 2022
The Personal Face of International Tension: Hostage Diplomacy and Russia's War in Ukraine
Mar 25, 2022
Gray zone, twilight zone or danger zone? Russian cyber and information operations in Ukraine
Mar 18, 2022
Reading Tea Leaves on Tehran: The Past and Future of Nuclear Negotiations with Iran
Mar 11, 2022
Known Knowns and Known Unknowns in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Mar 04, 2022
Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics and Western Support
Feb 25, 2022
The Deadly Business of Dissent in Russia
Feb 18, 2022
[Alt]+[Cmd]+[Ctrl]: Coordinating Cyber Security
Feb 11, 2022
What Old Mental Maps Reveal About Competition Today
Feb 04, 2022
You Can't Believe Everything You See on TV
Jan 28, 2022
Inching Toward War in Europe
Jan 21, 2022
The Texture of War in Afghanistan's Pech Valley: Part 2
Jan 14, 2022
The Texture of War in Afghanistan's Pech Valley: Part 1
Jan 07, 2022
The Inverse Midas Touch: Why America's Interventions So Often Go Wrong
Dec 17, 2021
A Novel Approach to Intelligence
Dec 10, 2021
A Faustian Bargain
Dec 03, 2021
STARTing over on Arms Control?
Nov 19, 2021
How Technology Changes Arms Control
Nov 12, 2021
The Malacca Dilemma: Growing Chinese Military Power
Nov 05, 2021
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader
Oct 28, 2021
A Strategy of Denial
Oct 22, 2021
Cyber Security is Only Partly Cloudy
Oct 08, 2021
Refuge and Reconciliation
Oct 01, 2021
Isn't it Grand?
Sep 24, 2021
Defending Democracy – Inside the Senate Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election
Sep 17, 2021
MAD COWs and Practical Wisdom
Sep 10, 2021
Insurgency is Easier than Governing: The Future of the Taliban in Afghanistan
Sep 03, 2021
Writing and Editing on the Rocks
Aug 27, 2021
Diplomacy Shaken Not Stirred
Aug 20, 2021
A History of Things That Didn't Happen
Aug 13, 2021
The Long Goodbye
Aug 06, 2021
A Promising Past?
Jul 29, 2021
Growing and Shrinking
Jul 23, 2021
Tripped Up About Tripwires
Jul 16, 2021
Cyber Economic Espionage
Jul 09, 2021
Security and Insecurity in the Indo-Pacific
Jul 02, 2021
The Cyber Arms Race
Jun 25, 2021
Putting Diplomacy at the Center of Foreign Policy
Jun 18, 2021
Living in the House Designed by Greeks and Romans
Jun 11, 2021
A Country That Matters All Day, Every Day
Jun 04, 2021
The Politics of Who You Know
May 28, 2021
A League of Like-Minded Nations
May 21, 2021
Reporting on Radicals
May 14, 2021
Trump Versus Xi
May 07, 2021
The Unconventional Future of Conventional War
Apr 30, 2021
Is Forever War Really Forever? The Case Against the New Non-Interventionism
Apr 23, 2021
Gender and Security
Apr 16, 2021
The Greatest Unknown Tragedy of World War I
Apr 09, 2021
A Conversation with Gen. (ret.) David Petraeus
Apr 02, 2021
Why the Soviet Union Lost the Cold War
Mar 26, 2021
How to Lose the Information War
Mar 19, 2021
Thank Me for My Service: Military Exceptionalism and the Civ-Mil Gap
Mar 12, 2021
The Speech That Shaped the Cold War World Order
Mar 05, 2021
The Last Shah
Feb 26, 2021
Henry Kissinger and American Power
Feb 19, 2021
Border Dilemmas
Feb 12, 2021
The ‘China Nightmare’
Feb 05, 2021
What’s the Point of DHS?
Jan 29, 2021
Guns, Government, and Grievance: Right-Wing Extremism and the Oath Keepers
Jan 22, 2021
Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Legacy
Jan 15, 2021
The Regime: How Arms Control Treaties Keep Us Safe
Jan 08, 2021
Civil-Military Relations from Trump to Biden
Dec 18, 2020
Engaging the Evil Empire
Dec 11, 2020
H.R. McMaster on Hubris, Empathy, and National Security
Dec 04, 2020
Reflections on a Lifetime in Intelligence
Nov 27, 2020
A Study in Power: The Life of James A. Baker III
Nov 20, 2020
The Impact of “the West” on American Foreign Policy
Nov 13, 2020
It’s Not Just Over There: The American Commitment to the Korean Peninsula
Nov 06, 2020
Divided We Fall
Oct 30, 2020
A Conversation About COVID: Pandemics and National Security
Oct 23, 2020
Biden, Trump, and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy
Oct 16, 2020
Military Pensions: Politics, Policy, and Reform
Oct 09, 2020
Global Democracy in the Trump Era
Oct 02, 2020
Lawyers Trying Lawyers: How the Doolittle Raids Shaped Military Commissions
Sep 25, 2020
A Way to Not Do Nothing
Sep 11, 2020
Topics You’re Not Supposed to Discuss at Dinner: The Role of Evangelical Religion in U.S. Foreign Policy
Sep 04, 2020
A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from Z to Shining Z
Aug 28, 2020
The Indo-Pacific Triangle: China, India, and the United States
Aug 21, 2020
Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
Aug 14, 2020
Who Will Guard the Guardians?
Aug 07, 2020
The Role of Social Media in International Relations
Jul 31, 2020
Every Adjective in the Dictionary Applies to Lyndon Johnson
Jul 24, 2020
Distortions in the Fabric of Deterrence
Jul 17, 2020
Race and National Security
Jul 10, 2020
What’s the Role of America in American Foreign Policy?
Jul 03, 2020
Where Do We Go from Here? The Future of Academia and U.S. National Security
Jun 26, 2020
Peace is Hell: Why America Struggles to Create Stability After Conflict
Jun 19, 2020
Bill Clements: A Most Formidable Man
Jun 12, 2020
Presidents and the Books They Wrote
Jun 05, 2020
How World Leaders Are Like High Schoolers: Professor Danielle Lupton Discusses Her New Book ‘Reputation for Resolve
May 29, 2020
‘Keeping the Russians Out, the Americans In, and the Computers Down?’ Erik Lin-Greenberg on His Article “Allies and Artificial Intelligence”
May 22, 2020
Sheena Greitens on U.S. – China Relations
May 15, 2020
Tami Davis Biddle Discusses Coercion Theory: A Basic Introduction for Practitioners
May 08, 2020
The Future of European Governance in a Post-COVID World
May 01, 2020
Using the Military to Help Fight COVID-19
Apr 24, 2020
Getting Smart on Pandemics: Intelligence in the Wake of COVID-19
Apr 17, 2020
Nukes and U.S. National Security
Apr 10, 2020
Great Power, Great Responsibility: Global Competition in an Age of Uncertainty
Mar 20, 2020
Allies and American Foreign Policy
Mar 13, 2020
Pandemics and National Security
Mar 06, 2020
Cheney and Powell: A Fractured Friendship
Feb 28, 2020
Strength, Wisdom, and Israel’s Character
Feb 21, 2020
Assassination at Sheridan Circle
Feb 14, 2020
How an Obscure National Security Council Staffer Changed the Balkans
Jan 24, 2020
Brexit is Happening, But Will it Ever End?
Jan 17, 2020
The Future Role of the Marine Corps
Jan 10, 2020
How Churchill Waged War
Dec 20, 2019
The Roots of Brexit and What the Future Holds
Dec 10, 2019
Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Crisis and Anglo-American Power Transition
Dec 06, 2019
The Spy Who Hacked Me
Nov 22, 2019
God, Oil, and American Power
Nov 15, 2019
Influence Operations and Active Measures: The History of Soviet and Russian Political Warfare in the West
Nov 08, 2019
Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States
Nov 01, 2019
Law and National Security: Legitimacy, Security, and ‘Tom Clancy Stuff’
Oct 23, 2019
An Unseen but Outsized Influence: A History of the National Security Council with John Gans
Oct 11, 2019
A Conversation on Middle East Security with Gen. Amos Yadlin
Oct 04, 2019
A Conversation with Gen. Vincent Brooks on North Korea and Asia Security Challenges
Sep 25, 2019
A Conversation with Rep. Mac Thornberry on Defense Policy
Sep 16, 2019
Counter-Terrorism Since 9/11
Sep 11, 2019
America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11
Aug 19, 2019
An Interview with Robert Jervis - Reflections on Political Science, Politics, and Policy
Aug 12, 2019
No First Use: Unpacking the Benefits and Risks of a Policy of Nuclear Restraint
Aug 05, 2019
The Good Friday Agreement - Ending War and Ending Conflict in Northern Ireland
Jul 31, 2019
Past and Present - How the Idea of National Security Has Shifted Over Time
May 22, 2019
A Little-Known CIA Operation in Poland
May 08, 2019
How the Big Bear Used Hybrid Warfare in Its Back Yard
May 01, 2019
Seeing Beyond the Horizon - Intelligence Challenges in a Rapidly Changing World
Apr 25, 2019
Emerging Threats, Technology Challenges, and Institutional Change
Apr 19, 2019
Law Enforcement Responses to New Threats
Apr 15, 2019
The Politics of Partnership in the War on Terror
Apr 10, 2019
The Lessons of Tragedy - Statecraft and World Order
Mar 15, 2019
Empire of Dominoes – Britain, Southeast Asian Anti-Communism, and U.S. Hegemony
Mar 11, 2019
Why Ike Matters - America and the World in the 1950s
Mar 06, 2019
Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies
Mar 04, 2019
Putin's Russia – Implications for U.S.-Russia Relations
Feb 15, 2019
Strategic Stability in Two Nuclear Posture Reviews
Feb 01, 2019
The Changing Nature of the U.S.-China Relationship
Jan 18, 2019
Five Policymakers Talk Strategies, Tactics and Tools
Jan 14, 2019
Keynote Address by Senator Ben Sasse
Jan 03, 2019
Keynote Conversation on the SSCI Investigation into Russian Active Measures
Dec 28, 2018
Russia and the Great Power Competition
Dec 26, 2018
The World Order
Dec 24, 2018
A Brief History of Civil Religion in America
Dec 14, 2018
How the Cold War Created Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping
Dec 10, 2018
The Flying Tigers
Dec 05, 2018
The Intersection of Global Fragility and Climate Risks
Nov 21, 2018
Intelligence and National Security Policymaking – A Conversation with Congressman Joaquin Castro
Nov 19, 2018
How Human Rights Rocked Foreign Policy
Nov 09, 2018
Great Powers, Great Struggles
Nov 06, 2018
The Threat Assessment
Oct 30, 2018
Middle East Realignment and Israel
Oct 25, 2018
Home Front the Battlefront
Oct 19, 2018
Part Two: National Security Dimensions of Global Food Insecurity
Oct 11, 2018
National Security Dimensions of Global Food Insecurity
Oct 02, 2018
Vietnam's Indelible Legacy: How the War Changed National Security Policymaking
Sep 21, 2018
Strategy by Solarium: From Eisenhower to Cyber
Aug 28, 2018
Will Artificial Intelligence Change Everything? TNSR Vol 1 Issue 3
Jun 25, 2018
Statecraft and the Great Power Challenge, TNSR Vol 1 Issue 3
Jun 18, 2018
Americans and the Transatlantic Relationship, TNSR Vol 1 Issue 3
Jun 11, 2018
Russia's Ambitions, Fears, and Future
Apr 30, 2018
Staying Ahead of the Curve in the Intelligence World
Apr 20, 2018
When the Director of National Intelligence Came to Austin: Dan Coats on Intel in the 21st Century
Apr 12, 2018
Even Cybersecurity is Bigger in Texas
Mar 30, 2018
The Last Republicans?
Mar 08, 2018
Introducing Horns of a Dilemma with a Conversation on Leadership
Mar 01, 2018