Below in the welcome across talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle a new Foreign Policy think tank will start business challenging Foreign Policy orthodoxies its called the Quincy Institute for responsible state this is not an ordinary think tank it is funded by charles koch and george soros among others talk about strange bedfellows can these establishment billionaires take on the Foreign Policy blog. Talking strange bedfellows im joined by my guest on the bar in new york hes host of the c. P. R. News a daily radio newscast in london we have been he is a professor of International Politics at City University of london with Research Interest in american Foreign Policy and its thing thanks as well as author of several books including think tanks and power in Foreign Policy and foundations of the American Century and in oxford we cross to could see. He is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on str
Talking strange bedfellows im joined by my guest on the bar in new york hes host of the c. P. R. News a daily radio newscast in london we have been he is a professor of International Politics at City University of london with Research Interest in American Foreign policy and its think tanks as well as author of several books including think tanks and power in Foreign Policy and foundations of the American Century and in oxford we crossed to ted see he is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london and we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this Quincy Institute coming into being. The media has commented on oh its obviously because of the who is going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much
Of the c. P. R. News a daily radio newscast in london we have been he is a professor of International Politics at City University of london with Research Interest in American Foreign policy and its thing thanks as well as author of several books including think tanks and power in Foreign Policy and foundations of the American Century and in oxford we crossed to ted see he is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london and we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this Quincy Institute coming into being the media has commented on i was obviously because of the who is going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much to the right before we talk about the principles involved in it what do you think
The American Century and in oxford we crossed to ted see he is a senior policy consultant and British American Security Information Council retired u. S. Diplomat and an expert on strategic intelligence and conflict resolution all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to london and we were talking before this recording about the novelty of this Quincy Institute coming into being the media has commented on i was obviously because of the who is going to be funding it someone very much to the left and somebody very much to the right before we talk about the principles involved in it what do you think of the idea itself i mean it is coming out against endless war wars that do not need to be started in the 1st place i mean there is a need for it and im all for it i raise my hand in agreement well talk about whats problematic about it go ahead in london. Yeah i think well when i read about it in the last couple o
Capital its 9 pm in france thats where were starting for you this hour the french president met with Russias Vladimir Putin at his summer residence on the mediterranean coast ahead of this weekends g. 7 summit the talks lasted about 3 and a half hours with a quite cordial evidence evidence when the leaders spoke to reporters around the time the reports from the french riviera. Well i guess you dont really give personal invitations to an International Leader to these kind of places and this kind of format even if its the president of a very important geopolitical player unless they are your friends so clearly in the past 2 years mr mack on and mr putin developed a close relationship we heard Emmanuel Macron call his counterpart dear vladimir a few times in death of lot of our putin just when he arrived he came with ok of flowers for emanuel macedoines wife and it seemed that the french president wanted to make his russian counterpart feel as much comfortable as possible on his visit to