6:30-7:00 – Richard Hanania presents his new book
7:00-7:30 – Caplan interviews Hanania about the book
7:30-8:30 – Ask Me Anything with Hanania, Khan, and Caplan
He
got his scholarly start in International Relations, and his new book is
a major advance in the field. Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of
Grand Strategy is not just a critique of the dogmatic “realist” school
of international relations. It strongly argues that most countries’
foreign policies are simply incoherent because (a) each interest group
(military, defense contractors, human rights groups, bureaucrats,
foreign allies) focuses on its own narrow set of issues, and (b)
politicians who adjudicate conflicts between these interest groups
myopically focus on the next election.