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Foreign Policy Live
Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading foreign-policy thinkers and practitioners to analyze a key issue in global politics, from the U.S.-China relationship to conflict and diplomacy....
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How to Have Politics Without Politicians
It’s no secret that democracy is in trouble. Studies show that a growing number of countries are less free, and polls suggest ordinary citizens are lo...
A Debate Over the War in Iran
As the war in Iran soon enters its third week, two experts join FP Live for a debate. Were the United States and Israel justified in attacking Iran? A...
Will the Gulf States Join the War?
As the United States and Israel attack military facilities across Iran, Tehran has been retaliating. But it has attacked Gulf countries more than it h...
War in the Middle East
On Saturday, Israel and the United States struck Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tehran has been responding with volleys of missi...
What a U.S. Attack on Iran Will Look Like
As U.S. President Donald Trump considers a military strike on Iran, what are the options on his table? What will his military advisors recommend he sh...
Kurt Campbell on Trump’s China Ambiguity
U.S. President Donald Trump’s China policy often seems deliberately ambiguous. Is that a virtue or a flaw? Kurt Campbell is a longtime China watcher w...
Is the Nuclear Club Expanding?
Is the age of nuclear nonproliferation over? There are certainly worrying signs. New START, the main nuclear treaty between the United States and Russ...
The “America First” Defense Strategy
The Pentagon’s policy chief Elbridge Colby recently called for a “NATO 3.0”, stating that the United States would “continue to provide the U.S. extend...
FP at MSC: How to Navigate a Trade War
U.S. tariffs have upended decades of trade policy, but new U.N. data shows that the economies suffering most are those that can least afford a setback...
Will the United States Attack Iran?
With the White House continuing to threaten military action against Tehran even as diplomatic talks continue, Iran expert Karim Sadjadpour joins FP Li...
One-on-One with Greece’s PM
FP’s Ravi Agrawal sits down with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to discuss NATO, a shifting European defense strategy, and more.
Why Greenland Matters
U.S. President Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland has brought a geopolitical hot spot—the Arctic—back into the fore. Host Ravi Agrawal is joined by H...
FP at Davos: Trump, Carney, and the Geopolitics of Material
Host Ravi Agrawal is joined by world leaders and industry executives on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The panelists...
Ian Bremmer on One Year of Trump 2.0
What is driving U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy in his second term? Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer says it is the “law of the jungle...
The Case for Trump’s Venezuela Plan
What comes next after U.S. President Donald Trump’s shocking capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro? Does Trump have a day-after plan? Most ex...
Venezuela’s Future and Other Conflicts to Watch in 2026
Comfort Ero joins FP Live for her annual analysis of the 10 conflicts to watch this year.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing on the stunning capture...
Looking Ahead to 2026
We begin 2026 with a look ahead. New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker joins host Ravi Agrawal to share his take on what’s to com...
Looking Back at 2025
New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker sits down with Ravi Agrawal for a 2025 review. What have we learned from the first year of...
Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela?
Tensions continue to rise off the coast of Venezuela as U.S. President Donald Trump orders a blockade on sanctioned ships to and from the country. Jam...
The New (Sovereign) Wealth of Nations
Is the growth of sovereign wealth funds, especially in the Middle East, transforming geopolitics? Jared Cohen, co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Ins...
One-on-one with Hillary Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits down with Ravi Agrawal in front of a live audience at the annual Doha Forum in Doha, Qatar. The two dis...
How Critical Minerals Explain Trump’s Policy
Name a consistent throughline in the Trump administration’s foreign policy. The answer could very well be the global scramble for critical minerals. W...
The Good News on Women’s Rights
Despite headlines suggesting otherwise, this week’s guest says women’s rights around the world are making real gains. Lyric Thompson, the founder and...
The ‘Ask-Me-Anything’ Episode
It’s time for another Ask-Me-Anything edition of FP Live. Executive Producer Dana Sherne puts your questions to host Ravi Agrawal.
Alexan...
Can Solar Energy Save the Planet?
Climate summits such as the ongoing COP30 conference can often seem like a place where countries agree to disagree and little gets done. But Bill McKi...
Is Trump Angling for Regime Change in Venezuela?
As the United States points its biggest warship at Venezuela, what is the White House trying to achieve in Caracas? How does it fit into the Trump adm...
Unpacking the Trump-Xi Meeting
China analyst and former policymaker Elizabeth Economy sits down with Ravi Agrawal to unpack the meeting that took place last week between U.S. Presid...
Is the AI Economy a Bubble?
Is the AI boom a bubble? What happens if it pops? Economist Jared Bernstein joined FP Live to sound the alarm on the growth and investment in the AI s...
What’s Behind Trump’s Expansionist Instincts?
How can history help make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Greg Grandin shares how T...
The Road Ahead for Palestine
With the cease-fire more than a week old, Palestinians now turn to what comes next: rebuilding and governing. Former spokesperson for the Palestine Li...
Are Young Americans Swinging Right?
43 percent of voters under 30 supported U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, a 7 percent jump in support from both the 2016 and 2020 elec...
The World After Oct. 7, 2023
Tuesday marks two years since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Since then, Israel has decimated Gaza in what many independent organizations a...
A U.S. Shutdown and a Constitutional Crisis
With increased polarization and ongoing budgetary disputes, the U.S. government does not seem to be acting in the way that the American forefathers in...
Will Qatar Continue to Mediate Between Hamas and Israel?
Qatar often presents itself as a neutral mediator in the world’s trickiest problems, but on Sept. 9, its sovereignty was violated as Israel launched a...
One-on-One With Europe’s Top Diplomat
How is Europe navigating the Trump administration and a troubling moment in the trans-Atlantic relationship? FP Live host Ravi Agrawal sits down with...
Adam Tooze on the End of Development
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development this year left countries scrambling, with many analysts going as far as calling the s...
A “War Plan” for the Democratic Party
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has a plan for the U.S. Democratic Party. She’s promoting what she calls a “war plan” to revive the middle class as a way...
Is Trump America’s First Post-Unipolar President?
FP columnist Emma Ashford makes the case that we’re entering a post-unipolar world—that countries can sense that the United States is no longer an unc...
Is Trump Making India Turn Away From the United States?
The relationship between the world’s two largest democracies—India and the United States—could be in trouble. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warm...
Former Iranian FM to Trump: ‘Stop Listening to Bibi’
We talk a lot about Iran on this show, but we don’t often hear from Iranian leaders. I wanted to change that this week—and so I asked Mohammad Javad Z...