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The Lawfare Podcast is the weekly audio production of the Lawfare staff in cooperation with the Brookings Institution. Podcast episodes include interviews with policymakers, scholars, journalists, and analysts; events and panel discussions. 

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The Lawfare Podcast: John Mearsheimer on 'The Great Delusion'

Jen Patja Howell   Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 1:30 PM

In recent decades, both Democratic and Republican administrations have tried to guide other countries toward liberal democracy. But international relations theorist John Mearsheimer’s latest book, “The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realties,” argues that this strategy has made the U.S. a “highly militarized state fighting wars that undermine peace, harm human rights, and threaten liberal values at home.” Last week, at a book talk at the Hoover Institution’s Washington office, Jack Goldsmith sat down with Mearsheimer to discuss the book.

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The Lawfare Podcast: The State of Rule of Law in the U.S.: National Security and Law Enforcement

Jen Patja Howell   Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 10:41 PM

On October 3, Benjamin Wittes co-hosted an event with his Brookings colleague, Norm Eisen, on The State of Rule of Law in the U.S. Ben moderated a panel on national security and law enforcement with Lawfare contributor and long-time Department of Justice official Mary McCord; former head of the DEA Chuck Rosenberg; and Representative Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Through the Looking Glass with Mike Doran, An Update

Jen Patja Howell   Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 1:30 PM

Back in January, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Mike Doran—a foreign policy and Middle East specialist who served in the George W. Bush White House, State Department, and Pentagon, and is a former Brookings colleague—to discuss his support of President Trump and dismissal of the Trump-Russia allegations and the investigation of L’Affaire Russe. At the end of that conversation, Ben and Mike said they would check in again in a few months to see who was right. 

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The Lawfare Podcast: Ambassador David O'Sullivan on the US-EU Relationship

Jen Patja Howell   Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 10:52 PM

It's easy to spend all our time focusing on American domestic politics these days, but the rest of the world is not going away. Take the European Union, for example—our neighbors from across the pond, and one of the US's most valuable economic and security relationships. There's a lot going on over there, and some of it even involves us. How is that relationship faring in the age of tariffs, presidential blusters, Brexit, and tensions over Iran sanctions? 

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The Lawfare Podcast: Mark Risher on Google Advanced Protection

Jen Patja Howell   Sat, Oct 6, 2018, 1:30 PM

Stories of grievous hacks, data breaches and their fallouts have become an almost daily addition to the news cycle. On Wednesday, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Mark Risher, Director of Product Management for Security and Privacy for Google, to talk about how his team is thinking about the current and future threats posed by malicious cyber actors. 

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The Lawfare Podcast: High School SCOTUS Visits Lawfare

Jen Patja Howell   Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 1:39 AM

Anna Salvatore is the impresario behind the High School SCOTUS blog. She got in touch with Benjamin Wittes a number of months ago asking for an interview, and produced a fascinating character study of him. On Tuesday, Ben returned the favor. Anna joined Ben in the Jungle Studio for a wide-ranging discussion of the Supreme Court, high school, blogging, and building an army to produce legal journalism.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Robert Kagan on 'The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World'

Jen Patja Howell   Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 1:30 PM

On Wednesday, Brookings Senior Fellow Robert Kagan sat down with Susan Glasser of the New Yorker to discuss Kagan's new book "The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World." In the book, Kagan argues that, like the jungle that keeps growing back, dangerous global actors, when left unchecked, will create chaos.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Jim Baker on AI and Counterintelligence

Jen Patja Howell   Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:30 PM

The United States has become the global leader in both defense and private-sector AI. Inevitably, this has led to an environment in which adversary and ally governments alike may seek to identify and steal AI information—in other words, AI has become intelligence, and those who work in AI have become potential sources and assets. And with intelligence, comes counterintelligence.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Elsa Kania on China’s Quantum Quest

Jen Patja Howell   Sat, Sep 22, 2018, 1:30 PM

If you ask scientists what is most likely to kick off the next great wave of technological change,  a good number will answer “quantum mechanics”—a field whose physics Albert Einstein once described as “spooky,” but whose potential, once tapped, could unleash exponentially faster computer processes, unbreakable cryptography, and new frontiers in surveillance technology.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Bruce Schneier on 'Click Here to Kill Everybody'

Jen Patja Howell   Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 5:30 PM

Security technologist Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World," argues that it won't be long before everything modern society relies on will be computerized and on the internet. This drastic expansion of the so-called 'internet of things,' Schneier contends, vastly increases the risk of cyberattack. To help figure out just how concerned you should be, last Thursday, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Schneier.

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