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The Foreign Affairs Interview — 103 episodes

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1

When Two Superpowers Meet: A Conversation With Nicholas Burns

2

Trump, Putin, and Genghis Khan: A Conversation With Fiona Hill

3

Learning to Live With a Nuclear North Korea

4

Is America Losing the High Ground?

5

How the Iran War Is Shaping a Post-American World

6

Will the Cease-Fire With Iran Hold?

7

America in a World of Upheaval

8

Are Europe and the United States Finally Heading For Divorce?

9

How Strong Are Iran’s Strongmen?

10

Iran’s Tenacious Regime and the Future of the Gulf

11

America’s War of Choice on Iran

12

America the Predatory Hegemon

13

Bonus: Is There an Endgame in Ukraine?

14

Can America’s Allies Survive the Transatlantic Rupture?

15

The Myths and Realities of Global Migration

16

How to Navigate the Shifting International Order

17

Is China Leaving the United States Behind?

18

The Erosion of the Sources of American Economic Power

19

What Kind of Change Is Coming to Iran?

20

What Comes Next in Venezuela

21

How the Past Shadows China’s Future

22

How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises

23

The Fear and Weakness at the Heart of Trump’s Strategy

24

America Can’t Escape the Multipolar Order

25

The Limits of the American Way of AI

26

The Age-Old Contest Between Land and Sea

27

The Strength of Trump’s Foreign Policy

28

Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice

29

The Crack-Up of American Democracy

30

America’s Two-State Delusion

31

Will the War in Gaza Really End?

32

The Reeducation of Russia’s Military

33

Xi Jinping's Successor and the Future of China

34

Poland’s View From the Frontline of Europe

35

Is America Ready for the Age of Cyber Warfare?

36

The World That Tariffs Will Make

37

Can Israel Save Itself?

38

The Rise of the Economic Security State

39

Why Is America Going It Alone?

40

Best of: Is the World Ready for the Population Bust?

41

Best Of: What Drives Putin and Xi

42

The Uncertain Future of U.S. Relations With India

43

Joseph Nye and the End of the American Century

44

The Coming Nuclear Hurricane

45

Preparing for the World After Trump

46

What a Stronger Europe Means for America

47

How Weak Is Iran?

48

Iran, Israel, and the Middle East in Tumult

49

What Trump Gets Wrong About the Global Economy

50

Another China Is Possible

51

Sudan’s Intractable War

52

Can Trump Remake the Middle East?

53

Has the United States Gone Rogue?

54

Understanding How Trump Sees the World

55

Planning for a Post-American Future in Ukraine

56

Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Fix Global Trade

57

Why America Shouldn’t Underestimate Chinese Power

58

How Latin America Can Survive an Age of Turmoil

59

Where Is the U.S.-China Relationship Headed?

60

What Does Trump See in Putin?

61

Where Does Ukraine Go From Here?

62

Bonus: Is America on the Path to Authoritarianism?

63

What Happened to Bidenomics?

64

Putin’s Fight Won’t End With Ukraine

65

How Will the World Navigate Trump’s Return?

66

Bonus: In the Room With Xi Jinping

67

Is the World Ready for the Population Bust?

68

Antony Blinken on American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent Age

69

Total War Is Back. Can America Adapt?

70

Trump and the Crisis of Liberalism

71

Bonus: The World of Trump 2.0

72

The Return of Political Violence

73

What Trump and the American Right See in Foreign Autocrats

74

The View From Israel One Year After October 7

75

The Middle East, China, and the Case Against American Isolationism

76

Can America Still Lead the Global Energy Transition?

77

Can India Change Course?

78

What Republican Foreign Policy Gets Wrong

79

Bonus: The Middle East’s Dangerous Escalation

80

China’s Vision for a New World Order

81

Searching for an Endgame With China

82

Biden, Trump, and Washington’s Wishful Thinking

83

Populism’s Grip on Mexico

84

Iran, Israel, and America’s Future in the Middle East

85

Gaza and the Breakdown of International Law

86

Russia’s Murky Future

87

Can Israel and Iran Step Back From the Brink?

88

Who Still Believes in a Two-State Solution?

89

Why Is Violent Conflict Reaching Record Levels?

90

Bonus: India as It Is

91

Netanyahu’s Israel

92

The Deepening Disconnect Over Gaza

93

Is Anyone Still Afraid of the United States?

94

The Dangers of Defeatism for Ukraine

95

Putin’s Fragile Compact With the Russian People

96

Bonus: How the War in Gaza Is Reshaping the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

97

America’s Dangerous Pessimism

98

Bonus: Who Killed the Chinese Economy?

99

How Will Artificial Intelligence Transform the Military?

100

The Missing Israeli Endgame

101

What Do Palestinians Think of Their Own Leaders?

102

Putin’s Cannon Fodder

103

Turmoil in the Middle East