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Is the Iran War Coming to an End? A Conversation With Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr
Jun 16, 2026
1h 00m 43s
Is Cuba Next? A Conversation With Michael J. Bustamante and Ricardo Zuniga
Jun 11, 2026
1h 05m 42s
Are America's Allies Finally Learning to Deal With Trump? A Conversation With Philip H. Gordon and Mara Karlin
Jun 4, 2026
1h 08m 45s
How to Prevent the Next World War: A Conversation With Thant Myint-U
May 28, 2026
53m 58s
Does Trump Have a Strategy? A Conversation With A. Wess Mitchell
May 21, 2026
1h 06m 12s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/16/26 | ![]() Is the Iran War Coming to an End? A Conversation With Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr | The Iran war may be coming to an end, as Washington and Tehran prepare to sign a framework agreement later this week. That deal should reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the blockade of Iranian ports, even as it leaves unresolved the issues that brought both sides to war in the first place, including the fate of Iran’s nuclear program. But policymakers in Washington and other capitals are just starting to confront the ways in which the war has transformed Iran—and how it could transform the Middle East moving forward. In a recent essay for Foreign Affairs, Narges Bajoghli and Vali Nasr argue that members of a new, emboldened generation of Iranian leaders are forging an entirely new approach to their own society, to the United States, and to the region. Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Bajoghli and Nasr on June 15 about the potential implications of a deal—and about how the last three and a half months of war will shape both the Middle East’s trajectory and the future of geopolitics more broadly. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview. | 1h 00m 43s | ||||||
| 6/11/26 | ![]() Is Cuba Next? A Conversation With Michael J. Bustamante and Ricardo Zuniga✨ | CubaU.S. foreign policy+3 | Michael J. BustamanteRicardo Zuniga | Foreign Affairs | CubaU.S.+3 | CubaU.S. policy+3 | — | 1h 05m 42s | |
| 6/4/26 | ![]() Are America's Allies Finally Learning to Deal With Trump? A Conversation With Philip H. Gordon and Mara Karlin✨ | U.S. foreign policyTrump administration+4 | Philip H. GordonMara Karlin | Foreign AffairsBiden administration | United StatesNATO+5 | Trumpallies+6 | — | 1h 08m 45s | |
| 5/28/26 | ![]() How to Prevent the Next World War: A Conversation With Thant Myint-U✨ | global conflictUnited Nations+4 | Thant Myint-U | United NationsForeign Affairs | — | World WarUnited Nations+5 | — | 53m 58s | |
| 5/21/26 | ![]() Does Trump Have a Strategy? A Conversation With A. Wess Mitchell✨ | U.S. foreign policyTrump administration+4 | A. Wess Mitchell | Foreign Affairs | U.S.Iran+1 | Trumpforeign policy+6 | — | 1h 06m 12s | |
| 5/16/26 | ![]() The View From the Front Row of the Trump-Xi Summit: A Conversation With Orville Schell✨ | U.S.-Chinese relationsTrump-Xi summit+3 | Orville Schell | Foreign AffairsForeign Affairs Magazine | — | TrumpXi+5 | — | 41m 25s | |
| 5/11/26 | ![]() When Two Superpowers Meet: A Conversation With Nicholas Burns✨ | U.S.-China relationsforeign policy+4 | Nicholas Burns | Foreign Affairs Magazine | ChinaUnited States+3 | ChinaTrump+8 | — | 57m 01s | |
| 5/7/26 | ![]() Trump, Putin, and Genghis Khan: A Conversation With Fiona Hill✨ | global politicsforeign policy+3 | Fiona Hill | U.S. intelligence communityNational Security Council | UkraineIran+1 | Fiona HillTrump+6 | — | 1h 07m 11s | |
| 4/30/26 | ![]() Learning to Live With a Nuclear North Korea✨ | North KoreaU.S. foreign policy+4 | Victor Cha | Foreign Affairs | North KoreaUnited States+4 | North Koreanuclear power+5 | — | 1h 04m 32s | |
| 4/23/26 | ![]() Is America Losing the High Ground?✨ | geopoliticsU.S. foreign policy+5 | Jake Sullivan | Foreign AffairsObama administration | United StatesIran+2 | geopolitical challengesnational security adviser+5 | — | 58m 47s | |
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| 4/16/26 | ![]() How the Iran War Is Shaping a Post-American World✨ | Iran WarAmerican power+3 | Matias SpektorKishore Mahbubani | Fundação Getulio VargasAsia Research Institute+1 | IranUnited States+4 | Irangeopolitics+6 | — | 1h 28m 51s | |
| 4/8/26 | ![]() Will the Cease-Fire With Iran Hold?✨ | cease-fireIran+4 | Suzanne Maloney | Brookings InstitutionForeign Affairs Magazine | IranStrait of Hormuz+2 | cease-fireIran+5 | — | 30m 40s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() America in a World of Upheaval✨ | U.S. foreign policygeopolitical tensions+5 | William Burns | Central Intelligence AgencyForeign Affairs | United StatesIran+3 | geopolitical upheavalU.S. foreign policy+5 | — | 1h 08m 58s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() Are Europe and the United States Finally Heading For Divorce?✨ | US-Europe relationsIran conflict+4 | Nathalie TocciMatthias Matthijs | Foreign Affairs | IranStrait of Hormuz+3 | EuropeUnited States+6 | — | 1h 05m 18s | |
| 3/19/26 | ![]() How Strong Are Iran’s Strongmen?✨ | Iranauthoritarianism+3 | Stephen Kotkin | Foreign Affairs MagazineStanford University+2 | IranVenezuela+2 | Iranauthoritarianism+5 | — | 1h 10m 24s | |
| 3/12/26 | ![]() Iran’s Tenacious Regime and the Future of the Gulf✨ | IranGulf region+4 | Afshon OstovarSanam Vakil | Naval Postgraduate SchoolChatham House | IranGulf+2 | Iranmilitary+6 | — | 1h 20m 05s | |
| 3/5/26 | ![]() America’s War of Choice on Iran✨ | U.S.-Iran relationsmilitary conflict+4 | Nate SwansonRichard Haass | Atlantic CouncilCouncil on Foreign Relations | IranUnited States+1 | IranU.S.-Israel+5 | — | 1h 05m 40s | |
| 2/26/26 | ![]() America the Predatory Hegemon✨ | U.S. foreign policypredatory hegemony+3 | Stephen Walt | Foreign AffairsHarvard | United States | predatory hegemonyU.S. power+3 | — | 56m 39s | |
| 2/21/26 | ![]() Bonus: Is There an Endgame in Ukraine?✨ | Ukraine conflictRussia+3 | Michael Kofman | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | UkraineRussia | UkraineRussia+6 | — | 1h 00m 51s | |
| 2/19/26 | ![]() Can America’s Allies Survive the Transatlantic Rupture? | A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the United States’ allies on both sides of the Atlantic seem to have recognized that they need a new strategy for this age of rupture, as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called it. Trump’s grab for Greenland, his tit-for-tat tariffs on Canada, his approach in Ukraine—all have opened up rifts between the United States and many of its closest partners. Chrystia Freeland has for years been on the frontlines of the battle for the future of the alliance as Canada’s foreign minister, deputy prime minister, and finance minister—roles in which she went head-to-head with the Trump administration on a host of fraught issues. She recently left the Canadian government to serve as a volunteer adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. As much as Freeland sees the cracks in the relationship, she still stresses the imperative of making the alliance work despite them. Freeland and Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on February 15 about how to negotiate with Trump, what Ukraine can offer Europe and the United States, and why American allies must rethink their approach to this moment. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview. | 39m 05s | ||||||
| 2/12/26 | ![]() The Myths and Realities of Global Migration | In 2024, there were more than 300 million migrants across the world—double the number there were in 1990. Many of those had been displaced by conflict or climate change; many were simply looking for jobs and a better life. But the national and multilateral systems designed to manage these flows have proved grossly inadequate, helping set off political convulsions not just in the United States and Europe but in countries around the world, including in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. In democracies, migration has perhaps become today’s most fraught and divisive political issue. To Amy Pope, the director general of the International Organization for Migration, these “unprecedented levels” of migration and the crackdowns that have come in reaction make abundantly clear that the current global immigration system is failing. It is, she wrote in Foreign Affairs last year, “incapable of contending with today’s humanitarian needs, demographic trends, or labor-market demands.” Pope argues that a challenge of this scale demands a complete system overhaul—a rebuilding of global migration policy that prioritizes order and dignity. Without such a restructuring, Pope warns, the risks of “more social unrest, more inequality,” and, ultimately, “more abuse and exploitation” of the world’s most vulnerable people will only grow. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview. | 56m 00s | ||||||
| 2/5/26 | ![]() How to Navigate the Shifting International Order | Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney may have made headlines when he described a “rupture” in global order in a speech at Davos last month. But long before that, policymakers and analysts had already been grappling with this unsettled—and unsettling—era in global politics. And the challenge has of course been especially great for American allies facing a very different Washington. President Alexander Stubb of Finland has become central both to navigating and to understanding this time of rupture. He has emerged as a leader who is particularly adept at managing the rift in the U.S.-European relationship, and at talking to Donald Trump, whether about Greenland or about golf. Yet even as he’s scrambled seemingly every week to avert a transatlantic crisis, Stubb has also gone out of his way to stress the long-term stakes of this moment—as he did in a recent Foreign Affairs essay. He warns that without significant changes, “the multilateral system as it exists will crumble,” and that “the alternatives are much worse: spheres of influence, chaos, and disorder.” Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Stubb on Tuesday, February 3 about geopolitical challenges from China and Russia to Ukraine and, of course, Greenland; about Trump and the future of alliances; and about what a true breakdown in global order would mean in the years ahead. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview. | 57m 58s | ||||||
| 1/29/26 | ![]() Is China Leaving the United States Behind? | One of the big surprises of Donald Trump’s second term has been the change in his approach to China. His first term marked the start of what seemed to be a hard-line consensus in Washington. But in the past year, the drivers of Trump’s policy have been much harder to decipher—including for Chinese policymakers. Beijing was prepared to respond forcefully to tough U.S. measures, as it has, most prominently, by wielding its control over rare-earth metals. Yet it has also seen new opportunities to gain ground in its bid for global leadership, as Trump’s focus careens from Latin America to the Middle East to Greenland. Jonathan Czin has spent his career decoding the power struggles and ideological debates inside the halls of power in Beijing. Now at the Brookings Institution, Czin long served as a top China analyst at the CIA before becoming director for China at the National Security Council. He sees Beijing’s year of aggressive diplomacy as a success, but with a lot of uncertainty about the months ahead. Xi Jinping faces a series of summits with Trump even as he grapples with economic challenges at home and a military that, if recent purges are any indication, is still not to his liking. Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with Czin about China’s approach to Trump 2.0; what to make of the military purges and other developments in Beijing; and the enduring nature of U.S.-Chinese rivalry, whatever the surprises in the short term. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview. | 1h 02m 07s | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | ![]() The Erosion of the Sources of American Economic Power | In the past year, Donald Trump has upended the global trading system and used American economic power like no president in recent memory. He’s imposed tariffs to force other countries to fall into line on commercial issues and geopolitical disputes—like this week’s threats against NATO partners over Greenland. He’s called into question the role of the dollar. And at home, he’s attacked the independence of the Federal Reserve and intervened in private-sector decision-making. Lael Brainard served as director of the National Economic Council in the Biden administration and, before that, as vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to her not about the short-term consequences of Trump’s policies but about what they would mean for U.S. power and prosperity in the long term. Brainard has taken on that question in recent pieces for Foreign Affairs. In this conversation, she stressed not just the risks posed by Trump’s economic agenda but the bigger changes necessary to sustain American economic success into the future. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview. | 55m 42s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | ![]() What Kind of Change Is Coming to Iran? | At the end of December, protests erupted across Iran. The government has since cracked down hard with potentially thousands of Iranians killed. It now seems possible that the United States might intervene. Via social media, U.S. President Donald Trump has told Iranian protesters that “help is on the way.” We do not know yet what, if anything, Washington will do. But the repressive regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is being pushed to the brink after punishing years of war and sanctions. Few observers of Iranian politics have thought more deeply about the regime and its future than Karim Sadjadpour. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And he is the author of a recent essay in Foreign Affairs in which he underlines the fragility of the Ayatollah’s regime and explores what might happen after its fall. Deputy Editor Kanishk Tharoor spoke to Sadjadpour on the morning of January 12 about the upheaval in Iran, the weakness and brutality of the regime, what U.S. intervention can and cannot achieve, and about what kind of political order might emerge in the coming years. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview. | 1h 04m 15s | ||||||
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