Global Monsters. Steve Williamson and Karen McClelland welcome Paul Lenze, the popular Professor of Political Science at Northern Arizona University to discuss international affairs and current issues in the Middle East.
They begin with reference to Lenze’s upcoming book, Searching for Monsters to Destroy: Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World. He says it looks at how the United States, Russia and China have interacted with each other in crises within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. According to Lenze, the title of the book stems from a speech given by John Quincy Adams, our sixth president, who was making the case that the US needs to be careful in engagements when it goes abroad.
That leads to an informative and occasionally contentious discussion about the end of the Cold War, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese threat to Taiwan, the Israeli war against Hamas and Iran.