Below in the welcome across talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle a new Foreign Policy think tank will start business challenging Foreign Policy orthodoxies its called the Quincy Institute for responsible state this is not an ordinary think tank it is funded by charles koch and george soros among others talk about strange bedfellows can these establishment billionaires take on the Foreign Policy blog. Talking strange bedfellows im joined by my guest on the bar in new york hes host of the c. P. R. News a daily radio newscast in london we have been he is a professor of International Politics at City University of london with Research Interest in american Foreign Policy and its thing thanks as well as author of several books including think tanks and power in Foreign Policy and foundations of the American Century and in oxford we cross to could see. He is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on str
A senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london and we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this Quincy Institute coming into being the media has commented on i was obviously because of the who is going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much to the right before we talk about the principles involved in it what do you think of the idea itself i mean it is coming out against endless war wars that do not need to be started in the 1st place i mean there is a need for it and im all for it i raise my hand in agreement well talk about whats problematic about it go ahead in london. Yeah i think well when i read about it in the last couple of days i was it was a Surprising Development but. And one kind
Establishment billionaires take on the Foreign Policy blog. Talking strange bedfellows im joined by my guest on the bar in new york hes host of the c. P. R. News a daily radio newscast in london we have been he is a professor of International Politics at City University of london with Research Interest in american Foreign Policy and its thing thanks as well as author of several books including think tanks and power in Foreign Policy and foundations of the American Century and in oxford we cross to see he is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london and we were talking before this recording about the not. This Quincy Institute coming into being the media has commented on oh its obviously because of the who is going to be funding it someo
A need for it and im all for it i raise my hand in agreement well talk about whats problematic about it go ahead in london. Yeah i think well when i read about it in the last couple of days i was a it was a Surprising Development but when one kind of sits on the thinks about it a bit boy its quite clear that since the end of the cold war and particularly since 911. 00 there have been tendencies both on both the right and left and probably longer as well if you look at the Cato Institute and right through the year after the iraq war into libya theres been a kind of growth of a kind of right wing anti military intervention feeling among military families and so on in the tea party including that is also against military spending so and as well as on the left so i think its interesting that weve got this kind of union occurring at this particular time so its a very Interesting Development and we need to wait a little bit longer to see exactly what the. The principles are and how theyre go
Several books including think tanks and power in Foreign Policy and foundations of the American Century and in oxford we cross to could see he is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london and we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this Quincy Institute coming into being the media has commented on i was obviously because of the who is going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much to the right before we talk about the principles involved in it what do you think of the idea itself i mean it is coming out against the endless war wars that do not need to be started in the 1st place i mean there is a need for it and im all for it i raise my hand in agreement well talk about whats problematic a