{"id":23257,"date":"2014-04-09T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T18:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23257"},"modified":"2014-04-10T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T20:50:28","slug":"an-economist-case-for-a-non-interventionist-foreign-policy-david-henderson-at-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/09\/an-economist-case-for-a-non-interventionist-foreign-policy-david-henderson-at-hoover\/","title":{"rendered":"An Economist&#8217;s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy: David Henderson at Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Naval War College, based in Newport, Rhode Island, runs a special 11-month course for foreign Navy officers.  On February 3, the Naval War College held a special morning session at the Hoover Institution, where I am a research fellow.  I was invited to speak.  The best invites, in my experience, are those for which I get to choose the topic.  That happened in this case.  So the topic I chose was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/docs5\/henderson-hoover.m4a\">An Economist\u2019s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four speakers, in order, were Gary Roughead (Admiral-Retired), formerly the Chief of Naval Operations and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hoover, me, Bruce Thornton, a professor of classics and humanities from Fresno State University and a research fellow at Hoover, and George P. Shultz, formerly Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan and a Distinguished Fellow at Hoover.<\/p>\n<p>The audience was, I believe, all Navy officers.  There were 47 of them, representing 44 countries.  I was warmly received by many of them, especially the officer from Bangladesh, and courteously received by the few U.S. military officers in attendance.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/docs5\/henderson-hoover.m4a\">Listen to the speech (30 min).<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Naval War College, based in Newport, Rhode Island, runs a special 11-month course for foreign Navy officers. On February 3, the Naval War College held a special morning session at the Hoover Institution, where I am a research fellow. I was invited to speak. The best invites, in my experience, are those for which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23270,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions\/23270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}