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, Sachs
and O’Rourke discuss why U.S. covert regime-change operations
have rarely succeeded, but have often left a colossal mess in
their wake.

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Footnotes:


Regime Change

American Involvement in Regime Change 

Conspiracy Theories

Foreign Electoral Intervention

Kennan and Containment, 1947

Political Assassinations 

JFK and the Diem Coup

List of Coups and Coup Attempts

List of Revolutions and Rebellions

John Mearsheimer

 James Rodney Schlesinger

Freedom on Information Act

Obama Attempt to Overthrow Syria 



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