Video: Bacevich on Limits of Power

Andrew Bacevich, a BU professor of international relations and history, discusses the diminishing returns of America’s long-held foreign policy of expansionism, the dangers of rampant consumerism at home, a quasi-imperial executive branch unchecked by a weak Congress, and a populace largely unmobilized in the face of two wars.

Hosted by Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on October 7, 2008.