Today @ Noon ET - Book Talk | The History of U.S. Regime Change Operations

Stephen Kinzer in discussion with QI's Anatol Lieven.
The U.S. kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and threats against Iran and other states, have once again put the issue of regime change at the center of discussions on U.S. foreign and security policy. There is, however, nothing new about such U.S. operations. They date back at least to the 1890s, and have taken place in almost every region of the world.

To discuss this history and its lessons for the present and future, Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute is joined by Stephen Kinzer, co-author of Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, and author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror and Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. 
February 2026

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Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. He was Latin America correspondent for The Boston Globe, and then spent more than 20 years working for the New York Times, with extended postings in Nicaragua, Germany, and Turkey. He is a senior fellow at the Watson School for International Studies at Brown University.

Anatol Lieven (Moderator) 

Anatol Lieven is director of the Eurasia Program and the Andrew Bacevich chair in American Diplomatic History at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. From 1985 to 1998, Lieven worked as a journalist in South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and covered the wars in Afghanistan, Chechnya and the southern Caucasus.
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