How Elections Derail Foreign Policy

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 4, 2015

Michael Armacost, Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow at Stanford, former president of the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2002 and author of Ballots, Bullets, and Bargains: American Foreign Policy and Presidential Elections (Columbia University Press 2015), delineates the impact of presidential elections on foreign policy and offers solutions to reform the electoral system.

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