All Episodes

Fault Lines Episode 640: Trump, Putin, Xi, and a Deal Without Kyiv?

Fault Lines Episode 639: A Rupture Over Russia

Fault Lines Episode 638: Sovereign Territory: Enclaves, Empires, and the Limits of Self-Determination

Fault Lines Episode 637: Houthis Hit Riyadh: Where’s Washington?

Fault Lines Episode 636: Contagion and Capital Punishment: A Week of Warning Signs

Fault Lines Episode 635: Red Sea Rising: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the Houthi Offensive

Fault Lines Episode 634: B-1s Out of Britain

Fault Lines Episode 633: Rebound Diplomacy and the Pentagon's New Playbook

Fault Lines Episode 632: A Super Intelligence Summit

Fault Lines Episode 631: Strait Talk: Iran's Diplomacy Gambit and the Trump Ultimatum

Fault Lines Episode 630: UNGA, Multilateralism, and the Limits of Global Institutions

Fault Lines Episode 629: The New Fight for Greenland

Fault Lines Episode 628: Xi in Washington: Trade, Tech, Taiwan, and the Iran Wild Card

Fault Lines Episode 627: The Saudi Arabia Squeeze

Fault Lines Episode 626: Space, Deterrence, and the New Frontier of U.S. Defense

Fault Lines Episode 625: Pacing The Killer Robots — AI's Week of Reckoning

Fault Lines Episode 624: The Global War on Terror, 25 Years After 9/11

Fault Lines Episode 623: Graham's Gambit: Russia, Iran, and the Politics That Killed the Bill

Fault Lines Episode 622: The Barrel Gap & The Oil Deal— How Oil Has Taken Center Stage In The World’s Major Conflicts and How Long Before Prices Finally Skyrocket

Fault Lines Episode 621: Iran After the Strikes: Cut the BS

Fault Lines Episode 620: From Aid to Trade in Africa

Fault Lines Episode 619: The Latin American Pendulum

Fault Lines Episode 618: Trade War Evolution: U.S.-China Economic Strategy, Then, Now, and Next

Fault Lines Episode 617: The China Colossus: Understanding Beijing's New Mercantilist Economic Model

Fault Lines Episode 616: Anaconda or Armistice: The Squeeze on Tehran

Fault Lines Episode 615: Good Vibes and Guns: NATO's Next Chapter

Fault Lines Episode 614: Drones and Diplomacy

Fault Lines Episode 613: After the Earthquake — Venezuela and the Limits of American Soft Power

Fault Lines Episode 612: Engines of Alliance: A Defense Deal for Turkey?

Fault Lines Episode 611: El Tigre and Rainbow Face: Picks for Latin America and the Wizards

Fault Lines Episode 610: Murky Waters and Muddied Deals

Fault Lines Episode 609: MOU: Hormuz Confuz

Fault Lines Episode 608: Deal or No Deal: The Upcoming U.S.-Iran Nuclear Agreement

Fault Lines Episode 607: FISA and FIFA

Fault Lines Episode 606: North Korea: Juche or Joining the Authoritarian Bloc?

Fault Lines Episode 605: Iran Hits Israel: 100 Days and Escalating

Fault Lines Episode 604: Round Two for Tariffs

Fault Lines Episode 603: Trump’s AI Exec Order: The Next Phase of the AI Arms Race?

Fault Lines Episode 602: Reframing Asian Alliances: Hegseth at Shangri-La

Fault Lines Episode 601: Losing the Plot in Iran?

Fault Lines Episode 600: Full Circle to Tehran

Fault Lines Episode 599: Epic Fury, No Exit Strategy?

Fault Lines Episode 598: Containment Under Pressure: Ebola and Global Security

Fault Lines Episode 597: Starmer’s Stormy Sturm and Drang

Fault Lines Episode 596: Peloponnesian Warning: Xi, Trump, and Taiwan

Fault Lines Episode 595: Iran Reloads as the Gulf Strikes Back

Fault Lines Episode 594: The Beijing Summit's Fine Print

Fault Lines Episode 593: Cracks in the Kremlin

Fault Lines Episode 592: The Art of the One Pager

Fault Lines Episode 591: A New Hope: America's Fight for the Final Frontier

Fault Lines Episode 590: Germany, Trump, and the Transatlantic Rift

Fault Lines Episode 589: The Oil Order Unravels: UAE leaves OPEC

Fault Lines Episode 588: Chaos at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

Fault Lines Episode 587: Satellites, Drones, and Deniability: China’s Hand in Iran

Fault Lines Episode 586: Schrödinger's Ceasefire: Iran's Deal That Isn't (Yet)

Fault Lines Episode 585: Ceasefire in Name Only: Iran, the Strait, and What Happens Wednesday

Fault Lines Episode 584: An Ancient Rivalry Returns: Tensions between Church and State

Fault Lines Episode 583: Breaking the Silence: Israel and Lebanon's Historic Talks

Fault Lines Episode 582: Hungary Turns the Page: The Fall of Orbán

Fault Lines Episode 581: China’s Unsinkable Aircraft Carriers

Fault Lines Episode 580: Whiplash on the Strait: Ceasefire or Capitulation?

Fault Lines Episode 579: Behind Enemy Lines

Fault Lines Episode 578: Artemis II: Space Race or New Fantastic Four?

Fault Lines Episode 577: Tankers and Tehran: Russia Fills the Gap

Fault Lines Episode 576: Moscow's Iranian Gambit

Fault Lines Episode 575: Pakistan, the Resurgence No One Saw Coming

Fault Lines Episode 574: Who will be the Persian Delcy Rodriguez?

Fault Lines Episode 573: Missiles and Mixed Signals

Fault Lines Episode 572: Make Ammunition Great Again?

Fault Lines Episode 571: Trump and NATO: Friends or Frenemies?

Fault Lines Episode 570: A New Chapter for Cuba?

Fault Lines Episode 569: AI in the Crosshairs: Anthropic vs the DoD

Fault Lines Episode 568: Trump and Xi: A Summit Without a Plan?

Fault Lines Episode 567: Iran Into Week Two

Fault Lines Episode 566: One Week of War: What Comes Next?

Fault Lines Episode 565: Strikes, Retaliation, and the Risk of a Wider War

Fault Lines Episode 564: Epic Fury: Iran After Khamenei

Fault Lines Episode 563: Caribbean Crossfire

Fault Lines Episode 562: State of the Union: Substance or Show

Fault Lines Episode 561: More Than Medals: The Politics of the Winter Games

Fault Lines Episode 560: The Board of Peace: A New Model for Gaza?

Fault Lines Episode 559: Nigeria: Security Support or Strategic Signal?

Fault Lines Episode 558: Olympic Curling Scandal and Rubio Speech: This Week in Europe

Fault Lines Episode 557: Fueling the Regime: Oil, Sanctions, and Security in Cuba

Fault Lines Episode 556: Netanyahu in Washington: The Iran Calculus

Fault Lines Episode 555: Japan's New Mandate

Fault Lines Episode 554: A New New START?

Fault Lines Episode 553: Backyard Reset: Panama, Colombia, and Washington’s Regional Reboot

Fault Lines Episode 552: Sudan, Regional Rivals, and U.S. Interests

Fault Lines Episode 551: Between Rhetoric and Reality: What’s Going on in Iran

Fault Lines Episode 550: Inside the New National Defense Strategy

Fault Lines Episode 549: Chinese Military Purges: Fault Lines or Pacman?

Fault Lines Episode 548: Groundhog Day in Ukraine: Is Peace Any Closer?

Fault Lines Episode 547: Tilting at Windmills in Greenland?

Episode 546: Fun Friday: America’s Best (and Worst) Foreign Policy Calls

Episode 545: The U.S. Weighs It’s Iran Options

Episode 544: Iran on the Edge: Protest, Pressure, and Power

Episode 543: Trump, Greenland, and the Arctic Scramble

Episode 542: Promises and Peace: Can Security Guarantees End the War in Ukraine?

Episode 541: Operation Maximum Resolve - Regime Tailoring?