The Rise of the Economic Security State: A Conversation With Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
For decades, the United States has used its position at the center of global financial, commercial, and technological networks to punish adversaries and pressure allies, exploiting what the political ...
28 Aug 202554min
Why Is America Going It Alone? A Conversation With Margaret MacMillan
During his second term, Donald Trump has railed against the United States’ closest allies. He has imposed tariffs, threatened to upend security commitments, and openly challenged the borders of Canada...
21 Aug 202543min
Best of: Is the World Ready for the Population Bust? A Conversation With Nicholas Eberstadt
In an episode released in January 2025, Senior Editor Kanishk Tharoor spoke with the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt about the global crash in fertility rates and the looming prospect of depopu...
14 Aug 202535min
Best Of: What Drives Putin and Xi: A Conversation With Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell
In 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell about what drives Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin and how they are (and are not)...
7 Aug 20251h 19min
The Uncertain Future of U.S. Relations With India: A Conversation With Ashley J. Tellis, Nirupama Rao, and Dhruva Jaishankar
In a recent essay in Foreign Affairs, the scholar and former U.S. official Ashley J. Tellis makes a provocative argument about India’s foreign policy. In a piece titled “India’s Great-Power Delusions,...
31 Jul 20251h 8min
Joseph Nye and the End of the American Century: A Conversation With Robert Keohane
For decades, Joseph Nye was one of the true giants of American foreign policy. His career, in government and in the academy, spanned epochs, and his body of work as a scholar of international relation...
24 Jul 202539min
The Coming Nuclear Hurricane: A Conversation With Vipin Narang and Pranay Vaddi
It wasn’t long ago that both heads of state and prominent policymakers could speak seriously about a world without nuclear weapons. But in the course of just a few years, nuclear concerns have come ba...
17 Jul 20251h 4min
Preparing for the World After Trump: A Conversation With Rebecca Lissner and Mira Rapp-Hooper
For all its promise of disruption, Donald Trump’s first term as president transformed American foreign policy less than most critics feared and some supporters hoped. Alliances held up, the rules-base...
10 Jul 20251h 4min
