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Welcome to “Circle of Insight: Foreign Affairs,” your go-to podcast for in-depth discussions on global issues and international relations. Join us as we explore the complex world of foreign affairs, analyzing current events, geopolitical strategies, and the interplay of nations. Each episode features expert guests and insightful commentary, offering a comprehensive understanding of the forces shaping our world. Tune in to stay informed and engaged with the latest developments in global polit ...
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Welcome to the 2012 Johns Hopkins University Foreign Affairs Symposium, entitled The Paradox of Progress: Chasing Advancement Amidst Global Crisis. The 2012 Foreign Affairs Symposium invites you to take a deeper look into this paradox of progress: admire the things we have accomplished and take a critical view of the new and ongoing problems we must face and overcome. Whether in politics, the economy, the military, or the environment, our continued quest for advancement often creates new cha ...
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The Coming Nuclear Hurricane
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1:04:28It 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 back in force. Arms control has broken down almost entirely. China has started a massive expansion of its arsenal, putting basic assumptions about deter…
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EX NEW YORK GOVERNORS AIDE ACCUSED OF WORKING AS CHINESE FOREIGN AGENT
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Preparing for the World After Trump
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1:04:13For 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-based order largely endured, and American global leadership appeared resilient. When Joe Biden was elected president in 2020, he could proclaim “America i…
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What a Stronger Europe Means for America
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53:46For years, U.S. presidents have complained that European governments spend far too little on their militaries, leaving the United States to pick up a disproportionate share of the tab for the transatlantic alliance. But in the past few years, Europe’s defense spending has exploded. At the NATO summit last week, U.S. allies committed to spending fiv…
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MEXICAN STATE POLICE USING DRONES TO FIGHT CARTELS
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Donald Trump pledged not to entangle the United States in wars in the Middle East. But last weekend, he joined Israel’s air campaign against Iran, bombing three nuclear sites before claiming that Iranian facilities targeted by U.S. aircraft and missiles had been “obliterated.” Iran responded by firing missiles at U.S. bases in the region just befor…
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IS IT UNUSUAL FOR A PRESIDENT TO ENGAGE IN MILITARY ACTION WITHOUT CONGRESS APPROVAL
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Iran, Israel, and the Middle East in Tumult
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1:01:22Less than a week ago, on June 12, Israel launched a barrage of attacks against Iran, targeting nuclear sites, missile depots, and military and political leaders. Since then, the two countries have exchanged a series of attacks. Philip Gordon is the Sydney Stein, Jr. Scholar at the Brookings Institution and a longtime observer and analyst of the Mid…
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CARTEL ENFORCER SENTENCED TO 28 YEARS
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What Trump Gets Wrong About the Global Economy
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57:21U.S. President Donald Trump famously tweeted during his first term, “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” But the record of the trade war that Trump started with his so-called Liberation Day tariffs in early April suggests that things are a bit more complicated. In an essay for Foreign Affairs appropriately titled, “Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose,” …
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DRUG CARTELS IN MEXICO HIRING FOREIGN MERCENARIES
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It has become a trope to lament and lambast the wishful thinking that shaped U.S. policy toward China in the two decades after the Cold War. That policy rested on a prediction about China’s future: that with economic growth and ongoing diplomatic, economic, and cultural engagement—with the United States and the rest of the world—China would become …
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The war in Sudan gets only a fraction of the attention that conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza and potential conflicts elsewhere get. But after two years of fighting, it has created the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded. And as the two sides in the conflict, the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, vie for control of the country a…
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Can Trump Remake the Middle East?
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54:13Donald Trump just finished his first tour of the Middle East since returning to the White House. The region has changed a lot since he was last there as president. There’s been Hamas’s attack on Israel, the ensuing Israeli retaliation, the weakening of Iran and its proxies, and the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. Trump used the visit to announce…
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Has the United States Gone Rogue?
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47:21In a little more than 100 days, Donald Trump has set about dismantling much of the international order that has prevailed since World War II. That’s true of traditional U.S. approaches to trade, to conflict, alliances, international organizations, and more. But as much as we focus on Trump, Michael Beckley argues that much of this change in U.S. fo…
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Understanding How Trump Sees the World
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42:11Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy, released at the end of 2017, announced the start of a new era for American foreign policy—one that put great-power competition at its center and focused especially on intensifying rivalry with China. For all the dissension and turbulence in American politics since then, that framework for American fo…
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FORMER HARVARD PROFESSOR JOINS CHINESE UNIVERSITY AFTER CHINA TIES CONTROVERSY
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Planning for a Post-American Future in Ukraine
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36:00Donald Trump famously promised to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of returning to the White House. But he is just over 100 days into his presidency, and the war is certainly not over. With Kyiv opposed to territorial concessions, and with Russia’s military campaign showing no signs of slowing down, the Trump administration has threatened to …
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BORDER SEIZURES BETWEEN US AND MEXICO
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SUMMARY OVER THE WEEKEND
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Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Fix Global Trade
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57:35Donald Trump’s embrace of tariffs should come as no surprise. For decades, he has claimed that other countries are ripping Americans off—and promised to use tariffs to remake a global trade system that, in his view, has been deeply unfair to the United States. But almost no one anticipated a trade and tariff policy as extreme and erratic as the one…
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Why America Shouldn’t Underestimate Chinese Power
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1:02:02For years in U.S. foreign policy circles, discussions of China focused on its growing wealth, power, and ambition, and the fear that it would supplant the United States. But a few years ago, the conversation took a sharp turn. Rather than fixating on China’s rise, most analysis began to focus on the country’s stagnation and even decline. There were…
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How Latin America Can Survive an Age of Turmoil
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46:33For decades, it has been a trope of foreign policy commentary in the United States that Washington does not pay enough attention to its own hemisphere. But the Trump administration seems to be bucking this trend—though not exactly in the way those complaining about neglect might have wanted. President Donald Trump’s campaign spent a lot of time foc…
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IRAN AND US CONFLICT OVER AN ISLAND
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Where Is the U.S.-China Relationship Headed?
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52:13Two months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S.-Chinese relationship—the most consequential one in the world by a long stretch—faces new uncertainty. Trump has threatened larger tariffs as China has continued its military buildup and activities in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea. But Trump has also focused his ire on allie…
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Not even two months into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump is reshaping U.S.-Russian relations at a critical juncture for the war in Ukraine. As Russian President Vladimir Putin presses his advantage on the battlefield, Trump’s admiration for the Russian leader, and his push for warmer relations with Moscow, is raising alarms across Euro…
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Where Does Ukraine Go From Here?
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47:37After three years of war, Ukraine is facing intense pressure from Donald Trump to reach a settlement with Russia. Trump has engaged directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin while calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator. His administration has sidelined European allies while joining a handful of Russian partners in voting aga…
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Bonus: Is America on the Path to Authoritarianism?
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45:06A month into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office, many are alarmed by what they see as emerging signs of democratic erosion. In a new essay, called “The Path to American Authoritarianism,” the scholars Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way make the case that such alarm is justified—that the administration’s early moves could herald an irrev…
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From record-low unemployment to strong GDP growth, the Biden administration presided over what appeared to be a strong economic recovery in the aftermath of the pandemic. But these measures masked a more complex reality, argues Jason Furman in a new essay in Foreign Affairs. That reality, in his view, should reshape debates about economic strategie…
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Putin’s Fight Won’t End With Ukraine
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48:32After nearly three years of war, the mood among many of Ukraine’s allies has turned grim. Russian forces are making steady gains; Kyiv is running low on ammunition; and the return of Donald Trump to the White House has only added to anxieties about the conflict, casting doubt over not only the future of American military aid, but also the prospect …
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CARTELS FIRE AT BORDER PATROL AGENTS NEAR THE RIO GRANDE2
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How Will the World Navigate Trump’s Return?
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51:17With Donald Trump about to return to the White House, leaders around the world are bracing for what could be a significant realignment in U.S. foreign policy—and trying to prepare their own country’s response. In a special two-part episode, Foreign Affairs Editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan speaks with two policymakers who have grappled directly with the disr…
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Bonus: In the Room With Xi Jinping
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51:13The United States’ relationship with China has scarcely been so contentious. Over the last several years, the two powers have butted heads over issues including trade and technology, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and Beijing’s belligerence in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Nicholas Burns has helped oversee Washington’s response to these risi…
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Is the World Ready for the Population Bust?
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34:43Over 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 Eberstadt, that chapter of human history is over, and a new era, which he calls the age of depopulation, has begun. Eberstadt is the Henry Wendt Chair …
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Antony Blinken on American Foreign Policy in a Turbulent Age
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48:30In the four years since U.S. President Joe Biden took office, the geopolitical landscape has radically changed. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought war back to Europe. Hamas’s October 7 assault on Israel sparked a widening conflict in an already chaotic Middle East. And Chinese aggression in the Taiwan Strait has refocused attention on the Indo-Pa…
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Total War Is Back. Can America Adapt?
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46:30Over the last few years, the world has seen the outbreak of a kind of war that had long seemed like a thing of the past. There was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; a Gaza war that threatened to turn into a full Middle Eastern war, and in many ways did; growing dangers in the Taiwan Strait or South China Sea; and tremendously damaging fighting in place…
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Russia's Nuclear Weapons and the War in Ukraine
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9:59This episode analyzes Russia's nuclear weapons capabilities and doctrine. It details the structure of Russia's nuclear arsenal, including both strategic and non-strategic weapons, highlighting modernization efforts and the deployment of weapons to Belarus. The episode examines Russia's nuclear doctrine and signaling, particularly concerning the war…
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U.S.-China Strategic Competition in the South and East China Seas
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10:30This Episode analyzes U.S.-China strategic competition in the South and East China Seas. China's actions, including island building and assertive maritime activities, are raising concerns about its growing control over strategically important waters. We examines U.S. interests in the region, potential U.S. strategies for countering China, and the r…
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Trump and the Crisis of Liberalism
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35:13Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election comes at a moment of turbulence for global democracy. It’s been a year marked by almost universal backlash against incumbent leaders by voters apparently eager to express their anger with the status quo—and also an era when liberalism has been in retreat, if not in crisis. Francis Fukuya…
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Earlier this week, Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, ushering in a new era of uncertainty at home and abroad. In a special bonus episode, Foreign Affairs Editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with Daniel Drezner and Kori Schake on Wednesday, November 6, about what the world might expect from a second Trump term—on every…
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