Derek Leebaert, who has taught foreign policy at Georgetown University for fifteen years, is a partner in the Swiss management consulting firm, MAP AG. His previous books include The Fifty-Year Wound: How America’s Cold War Victory Shapes Our World (2002) and To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations from Achilles to Al Qaeda (2006). He is also a coauthor of the MIT Press trilogy on the information technology revolution, and a founding editor of International Security and The International Economy, as well as editorial board member of European Security. He served in the US Marine Corps Reserve and is a director of the U.S. Army Historical Foundation, Providence Hospital in Washington, D.C., and of other public service institutions.
In the interview we discuss;
- Command and Control Management philosophy applied to foreign policy
- Can the U.S. fix the world; creating it in our image?
- Vietnam and Afghanistan- a critique
- Use of Special Operations Forces
- Neoconservatism
- Iran, the U.S. and Israel
- State propaganda and an informed citizenry
-Asia Pivot
-A more traditional foreign policy as the U.S. way forward
- A new paradigm of engaging the world: Post industrial / Post Command and Control ?
