# Our Fragile National Ego: Foreign Policy and the Struggle for Prestige

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/our-fragile-national-ego-foreign-policy-and-the-struggle-for-prestige>

**By** John Glaser, Matthew Feeney, Trevor Burrus

**Published:** June 15, 2018

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John Glaser joins us to discuss our fragile national ego and his new paper on the illusion of American decline.

[Status, Prestige, Activism and the Illusion of American Decline by John Glaser](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0163660X.2018.1445903?tokenDomain=eprints&tokenAccess=avT2n9kx84zPXxermWa7&forwardService=showFullText&doi=10.1080%2F0163660X.2018.1445903&journalCode=rwaq20)

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[Encyclopedia of Libertarianism - Foreign Policy](https://www.libertarianism.org/war-foreign-policy)