The Foreign Affairs Interview Podcast
1) Is the World Ready for the Population Bust?
Over the past century, the world’s population has exploded—surging from around one and a half billion people in 1900 to roughly eight billion today. But according to the political economist Nicholas E...Show More
2) How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises
The world has reached various inflection points, or so we are often told. Advanced technology, such as artificial intelligence, promises to transform our way of life. In geopolitics, the growing compe...Show More
3) The Fear and Weakness at the Heart of Trump’s Strategy
Last week, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy. Such documents are usually fairly staid exercises in lofty rhetoric. Not this one. It harshly rebukes the strategies of pri...Show More
4) America Can’t Escape the Multipolar Order
In the last decade, American foreign policymakers have been forced to reckon with a shifting global balance of power. Theorists have long argued over the shape of international order. But such questio...Show More
5) The Limits of the American Way of AI
In the last few years, artificial intelligence has become a central focus of geopolitical competition, and especially of U.S.-Chinese rivalry. For much of that time, the United States, or at least U.S...Show More
6) The Age-Old Contest Between Land and Sea
Members of the foreign policy world have talked a lot about great-power competition over the last decade. But no one can entirely agree on the contours of today’s competition. Whether it’s a battle of...Show More
7) The Strength of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Robert O’Brien served as Donald Trump’s national security adviser from 2019 to 2021. O’Brien’s predecessors in that position left the administration to become some of the most vociferous critics of th...Show More
8) Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice
Last week’s meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping may have brought a respite in the trade war. But it hardly touched the more fundamental drivers of U.S.-Chinese rivalry, a rivalry that has come...Show More
9) The Crack-Up of American Democracy
If one thing can be said to characterize the first months of Donald Trump’s second term, it is his expansive and often norm-breaking use of presidential power, both abroad and at home. There are the l...Show More
10) America’s Two-State Delusion
With a cease-fire in place in Gaza after two years of war, Donald Trump has proclaimed the arrival of peace in the Middle East. At the moment, however, it’s not even clear if the cease-fire itself wil...Show More