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The World Unpacked — 283 episodes
A Luddite's Guide to the AI Economy
Data Centers Are Fine, Actually
How Europe Fights Russia Without the U.S.
Iran Will Probably Still Get Nukes – Here’s How
How a U.S.-China War Would Unfold
The Real Middle East Crisis Hasn't Started Yet
Is Silicon Valley Corrupting Stanford?
Putin Is Losing His Grip on Russia
What to Know Before Trump Attacks Cuba
How Humans Take Back the Internet From AI Bots
Elon Musk Is Reinventing Capitalism
Why Orbán Lost and What Happens Next
Inside the Hidden World of Think Tanks
What Trump Really Wants From China
Inside the Pentagon’s AI War Machine
Did Trump Kill International Law – Or Was It Already Dead?
Who’s Running Iran?
Trump’s Two-Front Battle With Europe and Iran
Epstein’s America: How Modern Corruption Works
How a Progressive POTUS Would Change the World
How Economists Failed America
How Smart Bombs Enable Dumb Wars
The Global Race to Reinvent Meat
Every War Is Now a Drone War
Testing the Case for Regime Change in Venezuela
Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy Blueprint
AI’s Biggest Skeptic Sees a Bubble
Why Information Refuses to Be Controlled
Trump’s $200 Billion Tariff Showdown at the Supreme Court
"A House of Dynamite” Writer on How Nuclear War Works
Inside MS-13, the Gang That Swallowed a Country
Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Aren’t What You Think
Did the Bolsonaro Trial Really Save Brazil's Democracy?
Will AI Kill us All? Nate Soares on his Controversial Bestseller
Trump’s Greenland Fixation and the China-Russia Strategic Opportunity in the Arctic
The New Geopolitics of Subsea Cables
Party-State Capitalism: China's Communist Party and Rule by Market
Why We All Need to Care About Nukes Again
How China Is Reshaping International Security Cooperation
Outposts of Influence: Great Power Competition and Overseas Military Bases
Can the U.S. Rebuild Its Maritime Power? Competing with China and Cooperating with Korea
Latin America and Trump 2.0: Deportations, Trade Wars, and China's Rising Influence
Gaza's Ceasefire in Limbo: U.S. Policy, Regional Plans, and What's Next
Abandoning Ukraine? Trump's Policy and Europe's Challenge
Power Ball on the Korean Peninsula
A New Housing Bubble? How Climate Change Could Destabilize the Global Economy
How Will AI Export Policies Redefine U.S. Global Influence?
Biden, Trump, and a Foreign Policy That’s Gone Off Course
Navigating the 2025 World: Advanced AI, Economic Competition, and Power Shifts
Can the U.S. Win the Clean Energy Race Against China?
Was 2024 the Year Democracy Faltered—or Fought Back?
Fixing Global Trade: Why Tariffs and Trade Wars Aren’t Enough
Europe Inside Out: Is Europe Ready for Trump 2.0?
Maritime Power Plays: The U.S. and China in the Indian Ocean
Will America’s Next President Bring Real Change in Foreign Policy?
Can Tunisia’s Democracy Survive Saied’s Second Term?
The Geopolitics of Climate Engineering: A Climate Lifeline or Pandora’s Box?
Inside the U.S.-China Rivalry: Great Power Competition in the Middle East and North Africa
Macron’s Election Gamble: What’s Next for France and Europe?
Ukraine at the NATO Summit
Winners and Losers: The 2024 European Parliamentary Elections
The Politics of Biden's Latest Tariffs
China: Rising Tensions in the South China Sea
Ukraine Aid: Will It Be Enough?
Iran Strikes Israel - Here's What Might Happen Next
Barbecue Earth, Episode 6: Food Security Reimagined
Barbecue Earth, Episode 5: Consider the Lobster
Barbecue Earth, Episode 4: Uncle Sam and the Magic Beanstalk
Barbecue Earth, Episode 3: How to Launder a Cow
Barbecue Earth, Episode 2: The Farmers Strike Back
Barbecue Earth, Episode 1: Hog Country
Behind Closed Doors, Episode 3: Trouble in the Blue House
Behind Closed Doors, Episode 2: Seeing the Monster
Behind Closed Doors, Episode 1: If Men Were Angels, We Wouldn't Need Government
The State of World Hunger
Evading Sanctions 101
Moldova’s Moment
Türkiye’s Election: The End of Erdoğan?
Could Solar Climate Intervention Buy the World Some Time?
Israel in Turmoil
The End of TikTok?
The Future of Nigeria: Africa's Wounded Giant
The China-Russia Bromance: A Year Later
Lula’s Brazil: Encore Edition
Ukraine's Silver Tank?
Grading Biden's Foreign Policy
Humanity at Eight Billion
The Breaking Point: COP27
Europe's Energy Crunch
Frozen Diplomacy: Arctic Great Power Politics
On the Frontlines Fighting Disinformation
Nukes in Asia With Ashley J. Tellis
Top U.S. Diplomat Talks China
Biden, Oil, and a Crown Prince
Life in Putin's Russia
Uncovering Xinjiang's Mass Surveillance
Victory at Sea With Paul Kennedy
Showing Up in the Indian Ocean
The Great U.S.-China Tech Divorce
The Future of Warfare
Turkey in the Middle
China's Ukraine Propaganda with NPR's Emily Feng
Global Affairs and the World's Game with Roger Bennett
The Revenge of Power With Moisés Naím
Is the U.S. Done With the Middle East?
Top U.S. Diplomat Talks Ukraine
New Year, Same Problems: Biden's Foreign Policy 2022
Will Ukraine Get A Say In Its War With Russia?
Drugs, Guns, and Democracy in Mexico
Biden-Xi Summit and the Future of U.S.-China Relations
Will COP26 Matter?
More North Korean Missiles?
Cryptocurrency, Global Finance, and Digital Gucci Bags
German Elections: Replacing Angela Merkel
9/11's Legacy on U.S. Foreign Policy
"We Have Lost Hope" The Fall of Afghanistan
Does the Global Economic Recovery Depend on Southeast Asia?
Twin Crises: Haiti and Cuba
"What is That?!" UFOs and National Security
Is Ethiopia Coming Apart?
Iran's Election With Masih Alinejad
Biden-Putin Summit: A Preview
The Trouble with Governing Cyberspace
Can Democracy Make a Comeback?
The Road Back to the Iran Deal
Europe Under Pressure
The Indo-Pacific’s Moment
Beyond Arms Sales: Recalibrating US Security Assistance in the Gulf
Is This the End for Democracy in Myanmar?
Poison, Protests, and Putin
Elections and Democracy in Africa
The Arab Spring at 10: Tunisia’s Unfinished Revolution
2020 Unpacked
A Crossroads for US-Latin America Relations
The Future of US-China Relations
How Do Americans View Foreign Policy?
Russian Disinformation and the Media: One Journalist’s Story
What Do the Abraham Accords Mean for Middle East Peace?
Europe’s Post-Pandemic Trajectory
The Day After: A Post-Pandemic Middle East
Human Rights at Home and Abroad
The Shock to Hong Kong
Lebanon: On the Brink
The Global Fight for Racial Equity
The Eternal Putin?
Saudi Arabia's Perfect Storm
Protests, Polarization, and the Pandemic
On the Front Lines With America's Ambassadors
Is Violence Sometimes the Answer?
Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Defining Rivalry of the Middle East
Bill Burns on Coronavirus, The Back Channel, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy
What's Next For Germany?
The Show Goes On
Jen Psaki on Foreign Policy and the 2020 Election
Putin is Remaking Russia's Presidency (Again)
How Coronavirus is Cutting China Off from the World
Surviving Aleppo
The Death of the Two State Solution
The Terror in Xinjiang
Iraq: Caught in the Crossfire
Iran's Revenge: A Dish Served Cold
What the Afghanistan Papers Taught Us
Does NATO Still Matter?
Iran's Deadly Protests
Happy Thanksgiving!
The Eruption of Protests in South America
Freedom of Foreign Press in China
What Baghdadi's Death Means for ISIS
"Get Rid of Everyone": Lebanon's Arab Spring 2.0
How a Poet Defied El Salvador's Death Squads
Fixing Interpol with Matt Apuzzo
Mohammad Bin Salman's Recklessness and Saudi Arabia's Future
Indonesia's Youth Are Trying to Save the Country
How UNGA Happens
How the Hong Kong Protests Look from Beijing
The Fight Over Kashmir
Making Peace with the Taliban
Summer Break
Moscow Takes to the Streets
Fighting White Supremacist Terrorism (Reposted)
Arms Control Meets Politics
Iran's Cyber War
Boris' Brighter Brexit
Facial Recognition and the Surveillance State
Trump's North Korea Gamble
Hong Kong's Protesters Aren't Going Anywhere
Sudan's Revolution in Progress
White Supremacist Terrorism Has Gone Global
How to Negotiate With the Taliban
"White, Male, and Yale"? How Women of Color are Changing National Security
Is Washington Blundering Into War With Iran?
The End of ISIS?
What Just Happened in Venezuela?
Sanctions 101
Hasan Minhaj on the Battle for the Soul of India
How Saudi Arabia and Iran Shape the Middle East
The Largest Elections in History
Trump’s Golan Heights Gambit and Kushner’s Rumored Peace Plan
DiploPod Live: Bill Burns on American Diplomacy
Ukraine Five Years After Crimea
DiploPod Live is Coming!
What Happened Between India and Pakistan?
Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Vietnam
Where is the U.S.-China Relationship Going?
The Future of the U.S.-Saudi Relationship
Eliot Engel on the Foreign Policy Priorities of the New Democratic Majority
How to Negotiate with Iran and North Korea
Erdoğan's Turkey
What's Next for Brexit?
Enemy of My Enemy: Why Russia and China Are Growing Closer
Can America Still Lead the World?
Holiday Roundup 2018
A Foreign Policy for the American Middle Class
NATO 101: NATO and the War on Terror
NATO 101: Does Europe Need NATO?
NATO 101: What is NATO?
The Women Changing Indian Politics
Trump's Trade War With China
What do the U.S. midterm elections mean for foreign policy?
John Kerry on Diplomacy, Russia, and the Middle East
Arms Race Redux
Jamal Khashoggi, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East
Sanctions 101: How are Sanctions Implemented?
Sanctions 101: How Powerful are Sanctions, Really?
Sanctions 101: How Do Sanctions Work?
A Peace Deal in the Balkans?
Francis Fukuyama on Identity Politics
Israel and Palestine: Is a Two-State Solution Still Possible?
Sanctioning Iran
(Twitter) War with Iran?
Reaction to the Helsinki Summit
Foreign Influence in Latin America
A Conversation with Michael McFaul
A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg
Frederic Wehrey on the Battle for the New Libya
The Technical Aspects of Nuclear Diplomacy
Global Nuclear Threats from Russia
The Saudi-Iranian Rivalry
Julia Gurganus on the Russian Presidential Election
Douglas H. Paal on the Upcoming Meeting Between the U.S. and North Korea
Putin 4.0
Four Days in North Korea: An Interview with Jeffrey Feltman
What Is Happening With the Iran Deal
Interview with Nicholas Rasmussen
The North Korean Nuclear Threat: The View from the Intelligence Community
The North Korean Nuclear Threat: The View From Beijing
Avoiding Nuclear Collisions: The View from Russia
Denis McDonough on the Role of Chief of Staff
Chayes, Coll, and Suraju on Corruption in the Oil Industry
Moises Naim on the Global Outlook
Brown, Cammack, and Zomlot on Revitalizing Palestinian Nationalism
Michael Chertoff and Tim Maurer on Economic Cyber Security
Sullivan on the G20 Summit and the Future of U.S. Leadership
Livingston, Hagerman and Shah on the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy
Tellis and Emmott on the Challenges Facing Western States
Ülgen and Brattberg on Turkey's Future
Chayes and Teachout on Corruption
Tellis on Afghanistan’s Taliban problem
Sadjadpour on Iran's Presidential Election
Vaishnav, Kapur and Mehta on Rethinking Indian Public Insititutions
Youngs on Europe's Relationship with Russia and Ukraine
Brattberg and Vimont on the French Presidental Elections
Toby Dalton Reviews the 2017 Nuclear Policy Conference
Hamzawy on New Activism in Egyptian Politics
Andrew S. Weiss and Eugene Rumer on the U.S.-Russia Relationship
Michael Pettis on U.S.-China Trade Relations
Judy Dempsey on Europe in the Trump era
James M. Acton and Toby Dalton on the Global Nuclear Order
Muasher, Dunne, and Cammack on Arab Fractures
Paul Haenle on U.S.-China relations in the Trump Administration
Milan Vaishnav on Corruption in Indian Politics
James Schoff on U.S.-Japan Relations
Sarah Chayes on Corruption
Trenin on What a Trump Presidency Means for Russia
Paal on What a Trump Presidency Means for East Asia
Perkovich and Sadjadpour on What a Trump Presidency Means for Iran and Nonproliferation
Carothers and Kleinfeld on What a Trump Presidency Means for Populism and Rule of Law
Muasher, Dunne, and Bahout on What a Trump Presidency Means for the Middle East
Tim Maurer and David Brumley on Cyber Security
Debbie Gordon on Unconventional Oils and the Oil Climate Index
George Perkovich and Toby Dalton on India-Pakistan Relations
Doug Paal and Yukon Huang on G20
Karim Sadjadpour on Iranian Elections