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"The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy"

Aired on Friday, May 17th.

Has the long-standing, bi-partisan, and rather rarified U.S. foreign policy establishment effectively failed our country? Yes, according to our guest today: Stephen M. Walt is a Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He previously taught at Princeton and the University of Chicago, and he's now a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine. Walt's latest book is "The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy." This book, per The New York Times Book Review, "offers a valuable contribution to the mounting debate about America's purpose.... Walt persuasively contends that Washington's bungled interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya helped propel Trump, who has consistently derided foreign policy experts, to the presidency." Walt recently gave an address at the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations likewise titled "The Hell of Good Intentions."

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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