Checks and Balance: Twenty years later - a podcast by The Economist

America set out toreshape the world orderafter the attacks of September 11th. Today it is easy to conclude that itsforeign policyhas been abandoned on a runway at Kabul airport. Is the era of American interventionism over? 

The Economist'sJames Bennet traces Joe Biden’s shifting views on foreign wars. We look back to the origins of humanitarian interventionism in Bosnia. And,Anne-Marie Slaughter, former aide to Barack Obama and author of “Renewal”, tells us how American power might work in the future.

John Prideaux hosts with Zanny Minton Beddoes and Jon Fasman.

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