Cele mai bune Foreign Af podcast-uri (2026)

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How the Past Shadows China’s Future 59:14

5d ago59:14

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The biggest questions in U.S. foreign policy today tend to be about China. Policymakers and analysts argue over the implications of China’s rise, the extent of its ambitions, the nature of its economic influence, and the meaning of its growing military strength. Underlying these arguments is a widespread sense that where Beijing once seemed likely …

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How Liberal Democracy Can Survive an Age of Spiraling Crises 58:09

19d ago58:09

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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 competition between China and the United States heralds an uncertain new era. And within many democracies, the old assumptions that undergirded politics ar…

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The Fear and Weakness at the Heart of Trump’s Strategy 42:55

26d ago42:55

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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 prior administrations, highlighting what Trump’s team sees as the failures of traditional foreign policy elites. It pointedly criticizes Washington’s tra…

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America Can’t Escape the Multipolar Order 51:40

1M ago51:40

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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 questions now occupy practitioners, as well, as they grapple with the end of the unipolar moment that followed the Cold War and struggle to shape new strateg…

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The Limits of the American Way of AI 54:59

1M ago54:59

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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. companies, seemed to have the advantage. But Ben Buchanan, a leading scholar of technology who crafted the Biden administration’s AI strategy, worri…

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The Age-Old Contest Between Land and Sea 33:41

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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 autocracies and democracies. Or revisionists and status quo powers. Or whether, as the realists would argue, it’s just states doing what states do. S…

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The Strength of Trump’s Foreign Policy 1:06:59

2M ago1:06:59

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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 their former boss. O’Brien, in contrast, remained a staunch defender of Trump’s foreign policy through the Biden administration and into Trump’s second …

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Xi Jinping’s World of Treachery and Sacrifice 56:45

2M ago56:45

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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 to shape more and more dimensions of geopolitics, the global economy, and beyond. Few have spent as much time observing and chronicling the interacti…

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The Crack-Up of American Democracy 57:58

2M ago57:58

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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 lethal strikes on boats alleged to be smuggling drugs; the range of tariffs he’s imposed; the way he’s gone after enemies, withheld funds, and restruct…

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America’s Two-State Delusion 1:04:50

3M ago1:04:50

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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 will hold, let alone whether there’s a viable path to a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Few are more familiar with the elusivenes…

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Will the War in Gaza Really End? 58:15

3M ago58:15

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The world has watched as a cease-fire has tentatively taken effect in Gaza. All the surviving Israeli hostages are home and many Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been released. Israeli forces have pulled back within Gaza, and much-needed humanitarian aid is rushing in. Phase One of Donald Trump’s 20-point plan seems to be working. But what …

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The Reeducation of Russia’s Military 53:13

3M ago53:13

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Ever since Russia started its war in Ukraine, assessments of its military power have vacillated wildly. First, Russian forces were supposed to overrun Ukraine and crush any resistance in a matter of days. Then, they were thought to be so weak that a Ukrainian counteroffensive or a new capability might cause them to collapse altogether. Now, with th…

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Xi Jinping's Successor and the Future of China 48:00

3M ago48:00

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When Xi Jinping took over the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, he began a new chapter in China’s history—one that would come to be defined above all by his grip on power. Xi overhauled not only the CCP but also China’s economy, military, and role in the world. Yet no matter how secure his power may be—and no matter his recent hot-mic musings about …

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Poland’s View From the Frontline of Europe 41:25

3M ago41:25

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In early September, around 20 Russian drones entered Poland’s airspace. NATO and Polish forces scrambled fighter jets to shoot them down, but not before several had traveled hundreds of miles into Polish territory. To Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, the incursion was not just a test of NATO’s resolve. It was a reminder of the precarious pos…

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Is America Ready for the Age of Cyber Warfare? 54:53

4M ago54:53

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In 2024, the U.S. government discovered that Chinese hackers had penetrated a huge swath of the American telecommunications system—and remained there for years. That attack came to be known as Salt Typhoon. China has not only managed to steal the data and surveil the communications of hundreds of millions of Americans. It also embedded itself in th…

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The World That Tariffs Will Make 52:01

4M ago52:01

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Donald Trump has been railing against the global economic order from the start of his political career. But in his second term as president, he has turned that critique into blistering action. In just five months, the trade war that started with his April tariffs has completely reshaped the global economy—and struck at the very heart of the trade s…

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Can Israel Save Itself? 32:41

4M ago32:41

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It has been almost two years since Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza. Those many months of combat have left Hamas severely weakened, with its leadership eviscerated and its military capabilities crippled. But as the war enters a new phase, with Israeli troops pushing into Gaza City, the central question of the war…

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The Rise of the Economic Security State 54:25

4M ago54:25

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For decades, the United States has used its position at the center of global financial, commercial, and technological networks to punish adversaries and pressure allies, exploiting what the political scientists Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman call “weaponized interdependence.” Lacking any alternatives, the rest of the world has had no choice but t…

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Why Is America Going It Alone? 43:56

5M ago43:56

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During his second term, Donald Trump has railed against the United States’ closest allies. He has imposed tariffs, threatened to upend security commitments, and openly challenged the borders of Canada, Panama, and Greenland. Historians often look to the past for insight about the present and future. But although alliances have collapsed for many re…

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Best of: Is the World Ready for the Population Bust? 35:12

5M ago35:12

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In an episode released in January 2025, Senior Editor Kanishk Tharoor spoke with the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt about the global crash in fertility rates and the looming prospect of depopulation. 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 …

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Best Of: What Drives Putin and Xi 1:19:50

5M ago1:19:50

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In 2023, Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke with the historians Stephen Kotkin and Orville Schell about what drives Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin and how they are (and are not) like Mao and Stalin. Xi and Putin loom over geopolitics in a way that few leaders have in decades. Not even Mao and Stalin drove global events the wa…

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The Uncertain Future of U.S. Relations With India 1:08:30

5M ago1:08:30

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In a recent essay in Foreign Affairs, the scholar and former U.S. official Ashley J. Tellis makes a provocative argument about India’s foreign policy. In a piece titled “India’s Great-Power Delusions,” Tellis argues that Indian policymakers have their priorities wrong. Instead of pushing for what they call “multipolarity” in the international syste…

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Joseph Nye and the End of the American Century 39:10

6M ago39:10

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For decades, Joseph Nye was one of the true giants of American foreign policy. His career, in government and in the academy, spanned epochs, and his body of work as a scholar of international relations remains unparalleled. Nye, who passed away at the age of 88 in May, served in the Carter and Clinton administrations and headed the Harvard Kennedy …

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The Coming Nuclear Hurricane 1:04:28

6M ago1:04:28

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It 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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Preparing for the World After Trump 1:04:13

6M ago1:04:13

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For 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 53:46

6M ago53:46

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For 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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EX NEW YORK GOVERNORS AIDE ACCUSED OF WORKING AS CHINESE FOREIGN AGENT 2:16

6M ago2:16

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MEXICAN STATE POLICE USING DRONES TO FIGHT CARTELS 2:00

6M ago2:00

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How Weak Is Iran? 1:05:35

6M ago1:05:35

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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 2:51

7M ago2:51

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Iran, Israel, and the Middle East in Tumult 1:01:22

7M ago1:01:22

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Less 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 1:38

7M ago1:38

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What Trump Gets Wrong About the Global Economy 57:21

7M ago57:21

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U.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 2:34

7M ago2:34

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we_chat_with_retired_spy_the_psychology_of_espionage_and_spy_recruitment 48:12

7M ago48:12

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Another China Is Possible 56:09

7M ago56:09

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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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Sudan’s Intractable War 46:24

7M ago46:24

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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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CHINESE SPY OPERATION DISMANTLED 4:05

8M ago4:05

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Can Trump Remake the Middle East? 54:13

8M ago54:13

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Donald 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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AROUND THE WORLD RECAP 4:24

8M ago4:24

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Has the United States Gone Rogue? 47:21

8M ago47:21

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In 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 42:11

8M ago42:11

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Donald 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 4:11

8M ago4:11

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FBI HAS OPENED OVER 250 CASES TIED TO VIOLENT ONLINE NETWORK 764 5:16

8M ago5:16

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Planning for a Post-American Future in Ukraine 36:00

8M ago36:00

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Donald 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 4:35

8M ago4:35

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS SUMMARY OVER THE WEEKEND 3:44

8M ago3:44

3:44

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OPERATION FOX HUNT-CHINA 5:48

8M ago5:48

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Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Fix Global Trade 57:35

9M ago57:35

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Donald 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 1:02:02

9M ago1:02:02

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For 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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