
Regime Change Re-examined
In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood take on the U.S. “forever wars” with Phil Gordon, a former adviser to President Barack Obama and author of the accla...
3 Des 202049min

Afghanistan's Peace Process
In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood unpack the state of talks among the U.S., and Afghan governments and the Taliban about a peace deal, along with Cris...
26 Nov 202041min

Ethnicity and Conflict in Myanmar
In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood talk about the ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh with Crisis Group Europe Program Director Olya Oliker. Then they speak ...
19 Nov 202042min

“First, Do No Harm”: A New U.S. Foreign Policy under Biden?
In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Brittany Brown compare their own experience with presidential transitions to the Trump administration’s refusal thus far to pave th...
13 Nov 202045min

Protests against Police Brutality Shake Nigeria
In this week’s episode of Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Richard Atwood try to make sense of a very convoluted electoral map, with no clear winner, the day after the U.S. election. They th...
5 Nov 202040min

Can the U.S. Avoid an Election Crisis?
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and guest host Steve Pomper talk about a bizarre Oval Office meeting that enraged Ethiopia and a must-watch documentary about social media. Then they take a de...
29 Okt 202039min

What Makes Peace? Colombia’s Ex-President Santos Says It’s Harder than War
This week on Hold Your Fire!, former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos takes Rob and Naz behind the scenes of the negotiations with the FARC guerrillas that achieved a peace deal and won him the ...
22 Okt 202038min

Turkey Flexes Its Foreign Policy Muscles
This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob and Naz talk with Nigar Göksel, Crisis Group’s Turkey director, about how Turkey is flexing its muscles in its near abroad — Syria, Iraq, the eastern Mediterranean, a...
15 Okt 202040min





















