Scouted

Welcome to Scouted! As the US-China competition intensifies, international security scholar Seth Jones warns that China is already well along the way toward mobilizing for war—while the United States remains on a peacetime footing. Seth Jones is the president of the Defense and Security Department and the Harold Brown Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before CSIS, he ran...

Welcome to Scouted ! Our series highlights new, provocative work in international relations and foreign policy. In this podcast, I sit down with one of the field’s most creative and influential voices, Professor Amitav Acharya , to talk about his new book, The Once and Future World Order (Basic Books, 2025). Spanning five thousand years of global history, the book challenges our conceptions of wor...

Welcome! This is the first episode in our Scouted series, where we spotlight cutting-edge work in international relations and foreign policy. In this episode, we explore how countries around the world are navigating great power competition not by choosing sides between the United States and China—but by playing both . We’ve heard warnings about a new Cold War and a world hardening into rival blocs...