
Security Dilemma
Hosted by AJ Manuzzi and John Gay · The John Quincy Adams Society
4.8from 32 ratings
- 175
- Episodes
- 33
- Transcribed
- 32
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Security Dilemma
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 A.J. Manuzzi 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.
- Publisher
- The John Quincy Adams Society
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Nov 2021
- Latest episode
- 6 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
33 of 175 episodes have a transcript.

6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
BRICS: Reformist or Revolutionary? with Sarang Shidore

29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Kicking the Middle East Hornet's Nest with Daniel Zoughbie

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Early Unipolar Moment Roots of America’s Post-9/11 Foreign Policy with Emma Ashford
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BRICS: Reformist or Revolutionary? with Sarang Shidore
Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And those countries started meeting very informally. Initially, there wasn't even a joint statement, just a conversation. But within three years, they had decided to raise it to summit level in Russia. Furthermore, the very next year after they first met as leaders in 2009... In 2010, they decided to invite South Africa because Africa was a missing piece in that transcontinental club. So BRIC becomes BRICS. And in this process, BRICS is emerging not just as a brand to attract Western investment, which was sort of the original idea based on this paper, but also something more, something stating in some ways in terms of what sort of world it wants, very minimally. […]
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- Sarang Shidore
- Daniel Zoughbie
- Emma Ashford
- Abigail Hall
- Miranda Priebe
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 14 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 18 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Security Dilemma?
AJ Manuzzi and John Gay host the show. Published by The John Quincy Adams Society.
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