Latest Foreign relations Podcast Episodes
“No Freebies For Dictators” and other Abrams Doctrines
Foreign Podicy - August 18, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsElliott Abrams has been in the foreign policy business for a rather long time. Years ago, he served on the staffs of Democratic Senators Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He later served in the administrations of Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. During t...
Ukraine: What comes next?
Foreign Podicy - August 11, 2023 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratings"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." That was the reported assessment of a Ukrainian battalion commander recently describing Kyiv's counteroffensive against invading Russian forces. To be sure, the progress of the Ukrainian forces has been slow and the human cost incredibly high. Meanwhile, m...
The Game of War: Part II
Foreign Podicy - August 04, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn Part II of the Game of War, host Cliff May is again joined by Dr. Ben Jensen and RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery to continue their discussion on wargaming. They discuss its application in both Taiwan and Ukraine.
Pacific Overtures
Foreign Podicy - July 28, 2023 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsChina’s rulers gaze across the Taiwan Strait and see an island where people are free, prosperous, and choose their leaders. They don’t like that. They insist that the people of Taiwan must be ruled by the Communist Party of China. They vow that this is the future and that they will make it happe...
The Game of War: Part I
Foreign Podicy - July 21, 2023 23:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWar games are not entertainments. They are simulations; a way to develop insights into what would happen in an armed conflict – who would prevail and at what cost, should push come to shove. War games test strategies and capabilities. They are a tool for both research and training. Recently, Dr...
ICFRC: How the Young Generation of African Political and Business Leaders are Carrying Nelson Mandela's Legacy
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - July 19, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders is the flagship program of the U.S. Government's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI). YALI was created in 2010 and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2020. Established in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship has brought nearly ...
Samuel Ramani on Russia in Ukraine and Russia in Africa
Foreign Podicy - July 14, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSamuel Ramani teaches politics and international relations at Oxford. He’s the author of Russia in Africa and Putin’s War on Ukraine. His articles appear in a range of top-tier publications. He’s often on the BBC and other international broadcast media. His Twitter feed is granular and prolific...
Russia’s Lost Empire
Foreign Podicy - July 10, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHost Cliff May recently wrote a column for the Washington Times guessing what Vladimir Putin might do next if he should succeed in Ukraine. He suggested Putin would take over Moldova, formalize his control over Belarus, and then turn his hungry eyes toward the Baltic states — with the primary g...
America’s Top Marine in the Middle East on the Iran Threat
Foreign Podicy - July 07, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsMajor General Paul J. Rock Jr. commands United States Marine Corps Forces Central Command, or MARCENT. That makes him the top U.S. Marine in the Middle East. MajGen Rock is a Marine aviator with combat deployments to Iraq, and he was the commanding general of the 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade ...
Walter Russell Mead’s Global View
Foreign Podicy - June 23, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWalter Russell Mead is the Global View Columnist at the Wall Street Journal, the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York, the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, and he’s a member of A...
The World According to McMaster
Foreign Podicy - June 16, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsLTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster wears many hats. Most important for us at FDD: He’s Chairman of the Board of Advisors for our Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP). He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army for 34 years, he holds a doctorate in military history, and he was the 26th ...
Bombers, Balloons, and Santa’s Sleigh: Defending the American Homeland
Foreign Podicy - June 12, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsOne of the most important missions of the United States military is defending our homeland against a range of threats. But that mission is only becoming more difficult as China, Russia, and North Korea strengthen their means to threaten Americans here at home. What is the current military threa...
Talking Türkiye
Foreign Podicy - June 02, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsOn May 28, 2023, after 21 years in power, Recep Tayyip Erdogan won another five-year-term as president of Turkey — or Türkiye — as he prefers. To discuss what this means for Türkiye, the U.S., the Middle East, Europe, and NATO, host Cliff May is joined by Sinan Ciddi, non-resident senior fellow ...
Who Needs Soft Power?
Foreign Podicy - May 26, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmerican political scientist Joseph Nye popularized the concept of soft power decades ago. As he wrote in his 2004 book by that name, “soft power – getting others to want the outcomes that you want – co-opts people rather than coerces them.” Such soft power cooption can be less costly than hard ...
The Skunks at Israel’s Birthday Party
Foreign Podicy - May 19, 2023 19:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIsraelis are now celebrating 75 years of independence – 75 years of self-determination for the Jewish people in part of their ancient homeland which for centuries was ruled by foreign empires. There are not many nations that, as the late Charles Krauthammer used to point out, are “living in the ...
Under African Skies
Foreign Podicy - May 12, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAfrica is the second largest continent in the world, both in land area and population. It has more than 1.2 billion people — most of them young and poor — living in 54 countries. If current demographic trends continue, Africa will account for a quarter of humanity by the middle of this century. ...
Special Edition: Ukraine’s War of Independence
Foreign Podicy - May 08, 2023 21:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsUkrainians are defending their homeland from the unprovoked, blatantly illegal, and imperialist war being waged by invading Russian troops under Vladimir Putin’s command. They are also on the front line of a global struggle, fighting in defense of the free world. To discuss, host Cliff May is ...
The Hashemite King’s Gambit
Foreign Podicy - May 01, 2023 21:42 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFor decades, American policymakers have come to view the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as an indispensable ally in the Middle East, committing billions of taxpayer dollars to support Jordan's budget, economy, and military. Indeed, Jordan's Peace Treaty with Israel; its strategic position between I...
Israel’s Little Fires Everywhere
Foreign Podicy - April 24, 2023 18:15 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe Islamic Republic of Iran makes no effort to conceal its desire to wipe Israel off the map. Just this week, leaders called for the elimination of two major Israeli cities: Tel Aviv and Haifa. The regime in Tehran deploys a wide range of tools and proxies to achieve this end. The result was a ...
ICFRC: Earth Day in the Pacific
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - April 19, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsJoin us this Earth Day to learn about a beautiful Pacific Island Nation at the intersection of the international dateline and the Equator! This big oceanic sovereign state is where time starts and encompasses the 12th largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world! However, with a land mass of les...
Deterring Aggression in the Pacific: A Conversation with General Kenneth S. Wilsbach
Foreign Podicy - April 14, 2023 05:18 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsMany in Washington speculate on the nature and urgency of the military threat from China and the readiness of U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific to deter and defeat aggression by Beijing. But rather than speculating from afar, it's important to hear candid, informed insights of the American milita...
ICFRC: Tik Tok, Boom
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - April 12, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhat does it mean to be a digital native? TikTok, Boom. dissects the platform along myriad cross-sections -- algorithmic, socio-political, economic, and cultural -- to explore the impact of the history-making app. Balancing a genuine interest in the community and its innovative mechanics with a ...
ICFRC: Narrative Making and the Politics of Juxtaposition
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - April 05, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsNarratives play a central role in how nations imagine themselves and the 'other.' A central part of narrative making involves comparison, comparisons with other places and other people. These comparisons can, often, enable one nation to appear or perceive itself better relative to the other. Dra...
The U.S.-led Global Order and Its Discontents
Foreign Podicy - March 31, 2023 23:47 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWhen you hear or read about the American-led rules-based liberal international order do you think: “Yes! That’s important to me and my grandchildren and it needs to be sustained at all costs!” Or do you agree with a recent front-page article in the Wall Street Journal that reported, with no hi...
ICFRC: Peace Corps Volunteer Service as a 50-Year-Old
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - March 29, 2023 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsI turned 50-years-old at the 12-month mark of my 27 months of service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cambodia. Full of curiosity about this culture I knew little to nothing about when I was accepted to serve, I was quickly enchanted by the leftover vestiges of colonization and the omni-presence o...
Six Months of Protests in Iran
Foreign Podicy - March 24, 2023 18:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFor more than six months now, the Iranian people have protested against the state by taking to the street, chanting "Woman! Life! Liberty!" and other anti-regime slogans. Iranians continue to show the world that they seek a government that represents their interests and values. The Iranian peopl...
ICFRC: We Were Ever Here: Chinese Exchange Students in Iowa, 1909-1937
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - March 22, 2023 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIt is rarely known that Chinese students have long had a significant presence in institutions of higher learning in Iowa. As early as 1909, at least one Chinese enrolled at the University of Iowa. Following this forerunner, a significant number of Chinese students were enrolled in higher educati...
The Dark Side of the Coin
Foreign Podicy - March 17, 2023 15:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWith the implosion of FTX and the arrest of its founder, Washington finally woke up to the need for more effective regulation of cryptocurrency. Yet as government agencies and legislators take up the challenge of crypto regulation, the associated national security challenges need to be front and...
ICFRC: Islamic Feminism and Women's Rights
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - March 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIs misogyny part of Islam? In the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad took pains to address both male Muslims and female Muslims, because both have the same religious duties. The Five Pillars of Islam apply to both of them. The Quran states explicitly that men and women are equal before God. For more i...
Chatting with the Chief: A Conversation with General James C. McConville
Foreign Podicy - March 03, 2023 23:16 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGeneral James C. McConville is the 40th Chief of Staff of the United States Army, filling a critical position for our nation once occupied by individuals such as General John J. Pershing, Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, and Omar Bradley. A West Point graduate, soldier, lea...
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