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Season 3, Episode 2: Lindsey A. O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War
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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke as they discuss O’Rourke’s remarkable book, Covert Regime Change. US foreign policy is based heavily on trying to overthrow foreign governments, and O’Rourke’s account is a powerful and deeply scholarly account of America’s frequent resort to secretive regime-change operations. Her book focuses on the Cold War years (1947-1989), but Sachs and O’Rourke bring the issues up to the current day.
O’Rourke’s highly insightful study offers a deep and rare look at the how’s and why’s of US foreign policy. Together…
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