This episode examines the factors which led to Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the recent U.S. election. Did the Harris campaign’s insistence on issues of identity, rights, and democracy overshadow people’s everyday struggles with economic issues? What role did patriarchal bias and demographics of a shifting landscape of political preferences play in this election? And finally, will the bark of Trump’s campaign promises be worse than the actual bite of the coming presidency?
Guest featured on this episode:
Stephen Walt has been a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for almost two decades. He received the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2014, and among his other affiliations, such as the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, the Brookings Institution, and Walt is currently in Vienna as a special guest at the Institute of Human Sciences.
He has been a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, co-chair of the editorial board of the journal International Security and has also co-edited the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs book series. A prominent representative of the realist school and in international relations, Stephen Walt authored several highly acclaimed books, among them The Origins of Alliances, Taming of American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy, and coauthored with John Mearsheimer The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.
