The Negotiators Podcast
1) Negotiating with the Taliban
The Afghan government spent nearly a year trying to reach a power-sharing agreement with the Taliban—until the group’s fighters swept into Kabul this past August. Those negotiations failed to produce ...Show More
2) Before the Cease-Fire, Malta Negotiated a ‘Humanitarian Pause’ to the War in Gaza
In late 2023, a few weeks after the start of the war in Gaza, the United Nations Security Council was at odds over how to respond. Any one of the council’s permanent members can veto a resolution—and ...Show More
3) Inside the ‘Impossible’ Deal That Averted an Environmental Disaster in Yemen
For decades, the FSO Safer had been used to store oil off the coast of Yemen. But when the Houthis took control of the capital city of Sanaa in 2014, the government-owned tanker was suddenly located i...Show More
4) How 193 Countries Agreed on the Crime of Aggression
When the International Criminal Court was established in 1998, the crime of aggression was identified as the supreme international crime. But countries couldn’t come to an agreement on how the crime w...Show More
5) Coming Soon: The Negotiators Season 5
The Negotiators is back with a new host and all new stories from some of the world's most dramatic negotiations. Journalist Femi Oke takes us behind the scenes at a luxury resort in Uganda, as governm...Show More
6) The Afghan Impasse, Part 7: Talking to the Taliban
Since taking power, the Taliban have cracked down on human rights and deprived Afghan women and girls of fundamental freedoms. The outlook for productive engagement is dim. Yet there may have been a w...Show More
7) The Afghan Impasse, Part 6: Digital Dunkirk
Once it became clear that U.S. troops were leaving Afghanistan, the situation on the ground turned to panic. In August 2021, radio reporter Shirin Jaafari found herself in the middle of the effort to ...Show More
8) The Afghan Impasse, Part 5: The Envoy Speaks
When a diplomatic deal goes bad, the blame usually falls on the politicians. Often, we don’t even remember the names of the negotiators. But in the wake of the return of the Taliban, a lot of people h...Show More
9) The Afghan Impasse, Part 4: History Repeats
As soon as the Doha Agreement was signed, the clock started counting down to May 1, 2021—the day the United States had agreed to withdraw all troops. That gave the Afghan Republic and the Taliban 14 m...Show More
10) The Afghan Impasse, Part 3: The Art of the (Separate) Deal
As a candidate for the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump vowed to end the war in Afghanistan. But seven months after his inauguration, he changed his mind, saying that the United States should “fight to w...Show More