How to Fix Democracy Season 5 | Elizabeth N. Saunders

Season 5 - Episode 17
Democracy and Foreign Policy: Elites, Power, and Accountability in the Cold War Era
Elizabeth N. Saunders, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and author of The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace, speaks with Andrew Keen about democracy and foreign policy. The conversation focuses on the tension between elites and democracy, power and accountability, and domestic priorities and global responsibilities from the 1950s to the 1970s. In the era between the Korean War and the Vietnam War, domestic tensions reverberated through foreign policy decisions made to promote democracy during the Cold War.
Elizabeth N. Saunders is a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, specializing in international security and U.S. foreign policy. Her interests include the presidency's role in foreign policy and the politics surrounding the use of force. Before her tenure at Columbia, she taught at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Additionally, she serves as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.