This week, Patrick C. Fox and John Allen Gay interview Matthew Petti, a young independent journalist covering the Middle East. In this conversation we cover the origins of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, America&#39;s ongoing presence and path out of Syria, the context of the Iranian hostage exchange and the &quot;spaghetti logic&quot; of Henry Kissinger&#39;s realism.
 
Matthew Petti&#39;s <a href="https://www.pettimatthew.com/archive?sort=new" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Substack</a>
Matthew&#39;s essay on <a href="https://www.pettimatthew.com/p/neither-moral-nor-pragmatic-but-a" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Kissinger and Realism</a>

Jordan Cohen on Arms Sales and Alliance Politics

U.S. foreign policy for the future. Security Dilemma brings you conversations with the experts, policymakers, and thinkers charting new paths forward from the wreckage of recent decades and toward a national security and defense policy guided by prudence and restraint. Cohosts John Allen Gay and Patrick C. Fox bring you the information you need to shape a wiser approach. 
Security Dilemma is a podcast of the John Quincy Adams Society, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing a new generation of foreign policy leaders.