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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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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...
If Americans Are Lawyers and Chinese Are Engineers, Who Is Going to Win?
The United States and China are constantly looking for a leg up in their rivalry for geopolitical primacy. But what if the real advantage lies in adop...
Grading Trump’s Ukraine Diplomacy
The Trump-Putin summit on Friday, followed by Monday’s unprecedented White House meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and seven other European le...
The Future of Europe’s Defense
European leaders, having agreed to spending 5 percent of their GDP on defense, now must decide where that money goes. What factors should they conside...
How to Navigate the Trade Wars
Harvard University professor and economist Dani Rodrik first questioned in the late 1990s whether globalization had gone too far. He joins FP Live to...
Is the West Turning Against Israel?
As images of starvation in Gaza continue to circulate online, unequivocal support for Israel may be waning in the West, with Britain, Canada, and Fran...
An AMA on Ravi’s Visit to China and India
From Labubus and Chinese soft power to U.S. President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on Ukraine, join host Ravi Agrawal for another FP Live Ask-Me-Anyth...
Will Trump Shift the Balance in Ukraine?
Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, joins FP Live to assess the Trump administration’s shifting policies on Ukraine and how that could...
Why the Dollar’s Decline Matters
The U.S. dollar has declined by more than 10 percent this year. Is the fall just a normal fluctuation, or is it a sign of something much more worrying...
How Indonesia Sees the World
U.S. foreign-policy coverage often focuses on the Middle East, China, or Europe. So, what is the view from what is sometimes called the world’s bigges...
Trump, Netanyahu, and the Future of the Middle East
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sits down with Ravi Agrawal to debrief this week’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Pr...
Why Zbig Still Matters
Journalist Edward Luce is the author of a new biography on President Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, A...
How India Is Navigating the Trump Era
How does India view a shifting world order? Former national security advisor Shivshankar Menon sits down with Ravi Agrawal to discuss New Delhi’s visi...
Trump and the NATO Summit
FP Live host Ravi Agrawal is on the ground at the NATO summit in The Hague this week. He shares his take on how European leaders pledged to increase t...
How the Iran-Israel Conflict Is Reshaping the Middle East
Conflict broke out between Israel and Iran on Friday, with Israel launching an attack on Iran’s nuclear and military facilities and Iran responding in...
Can China Catch Up on AI?
Chinese exports of rare earths, a critical component in manufacturing high-end tech products, emerged as a key sticking point in this week’s trade tal...
The Future of War
Drones are playing an increasingly decisive role in conflicts around the world. Coupled with artificial intelligence and other technological advances,...
How Gen Z Views the World
Gen Z has come of age amid a pandemic, growing polarization, and deep distrust of bureaucratic institutions. How does this shape their political and e...
How to Think About Solutions in Gaza and Sudan
Earlier this week, thousands of Palestinians stormed an aid distribution site in Gaza, underlining the ongoing humanitarian crisis there and prompting...
Is Trump’s Middle East Policy a Break From the Past?
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Trump’s Promise of Mass Deportations
U.S. President Donald Trump came to office promising mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, but he hasn’t actually hit the numbers he said he w...
Will India and Pakistan Go to War?
Two nuclear-armed countries, India and Pakistan, are locked in their most serious conflict in two decades. Early Wednesday morning, after weeks of ple...
100 Days of Trump: The Ask-Me-Anything Edition
To mark the first 100 days of the second Trump White House, we have a special ask-me-anything episode. Amid a firehose of news, which policies will en...
The Realist POV on Trump’s First 100 Days
April 29 marks the 100th day of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term. What do foreign policy experts make of his administration’s performance so...
The End of Globalization?
The rollout of the Trump administration’s tariffs has rattled markets, prompting questions of what these protectionist policies mean for the global ec...
The U.S.-China Trade War
The U.S.-China trade war has rattled the global economy, and there’s little sign of de-escalation. What does this mean for their respective economies?...
The Geopolitics of AI
The race is on to dominate the artificial intelligence economy, making the need for safeguards ever more pressing. Jared Cohen, the president of globa...
The Tariff Debate
Two leading economists debate the potential trade-offs of the Trump administration’s tariffs that are now roiling markets. Oren Cass, the founder of A...
Trump vs. the Courts: Lessons From Abroad
Legal scholars argue that the Trump administration’s push to curtail the power of the U.S. judiciary mirrors moves by several authoritarian government...
FP’s New Print Issue: Billionaire Rule
Several of the world’s wealthiest men stood behind Donald Trump as he was inaugurated for a second term, contradicting his image as a populist preside...
How Should Europe Navigate the Trump Era?
The Trump administration has dramatically shifted the United States’ long-standing relationship with Europe, pushing it to shore up its own defense. H...