The Foreign Affairs Interview

The Erosion of the Sources of American Economic Power

What Kind of Change Is Coming to Iran?

The podcast explores the potential future of Iran amid widespread protests against the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime. Carnegie Endowment senior fellow Karim Sadjadpour discusses the protests' nationwide reach, diverse participants, and ferocious slogans indicating deep dissatisfaction with the theocratic government's...

What Comes Next in Venezuela

How the Past Shadows China’s Future

How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises

In this episode of The Foreign Affairs Interview, Deputy Editor Kanishk Tharoor interviews Daron Acemoglu, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, about the overlapping crises facing the world today. Acemoglu discusses the impact of AI on the economy, arguing that its effect is often overstated and that a "winner-takes-all" d...

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

In this episode of The Foreign Affairs Interview, Kori Schake discusses the Trump administration's national security strategy, civil-military relations, and the broader state of American foreign policy. Schake critiques the strategy for its faulty assumptions about alliances and its failure to prioritize key threats, a...

America Can’t Escape the Multipolar Order

In The Foreign Affairs Interview, Dan Kurtz-Phelan interviews Emma Ashford about the shifting global balance of power and the emergence of a multipolar world. They discuss how the Trump and Biden administrations have approached this new order, the concept of restraint in foreign policy, and the implications for America...

The Limits of the American Way of AI

The Age-Old Contest Between Land and Sea

Dan Kurtz-Phelan interviews Sally Paine about her essay in Foreign Affairs, exploring the tension between maritime and continental powers in geopolitics. Paine argues that the current great-power competition is a continuation of this historical tension, with maritime powers like the U.S. focusing on trade and rules, wh...

The Strength of Trump's Foreign Policy

Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice

In "The Foreign Affairs Interview," Dan Kurtz-Phelan interviews Orville Schell, a China expert, about the U.S.-China relationship, focusing on the dynamics between leaders like Trump and Xi Jinping. Schell discusses the paradigm shift where China has gained leverage, the unpredictability of Trump's China policy, and Xi...

The Crack-Up of American Democracy

America’s Two-State Delusion

Will the War in Gaza Really End?

The Reeducation of Russia’s Military

Xi Jinping's Successor and the Future of China

Poland’s View From the Frontline of Europe

Is America Ready for the Age of Cyber Warfare?

The World That Tariffs Will Make

Can Israel Save Itself?