The known perils of regime change

January 23
18 mins

Episode Description

A scholar of civil wars warns against repeating the past mistakes from U.S. military interventions abroad. 

Guest: Monica Duffy Toft, director of the Center for Strategic Studies and a professor of international politics at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; her essay "Can the US 'run' Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy" was published earlier this month in The Conversation.

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