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Podcast: Between the Lines
Episode: What happens if Uncle Sam goes home? And, French politics with The Economist’s Sophie Pedder
Description: Uncle Sam: homeward bound?From Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders, a growing chorus of voices in the US is calling for a strategy of global retrenchment. But what will long-time allies like Australia do if Uncle Sam goes home?Thomas Wright, director of the Centre on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and non-resident fellow at Lowy Institute in Sydney.Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Independent StudiesAnd, French politics with The Economist’s...