Latest Us foreign policy Podcast Episodes
So Many Wars, So Little Time
Foreign Podicy - July 05, 2024 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAs the Israel Defense Forces appear to have almost completed their mission to defeat Hamas terrorists in Rafah, a Gazan city along the Egyptian border, the Islamic Republic of Iran is utilizing Hezbollah, its proxy in Lebanon, to attack – even more aggressively – Israel’s northern territories. B...
Another Guest of the Ayatollah: The Kylie Moore-Gilbert Story
Foreign Podicy - June 28, 2024 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAfter attending a conference she was invited to in the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2018, Australian-British academic Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested by the intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of espionage which ...
Out of South Africa
Foreign Podicy - June 21, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSouth Africa has been in the news lately. Most recently, it had elections. There’s also this: The government of South Africa has filed a lawsuit under the Genocide Convention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The indictment is not against Hamas whose terrorists invaded Israel ...
How Does the Israel-Hamas War End?
Carnegie Connects - June 20, 2024 09:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Israel-Hamas war drags on seemingly with no end in sight. President Biden has announced a phased plan to end the conflict, but Hamas has yet to respond and Benny Gantz, a supporter of the plan, has left the Israeli government. Meanwhile, there’s serious concern about the prospects of a major...
Turkey and the Neo-Sultan
Foreign Podicy - June 14, 2024 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsTurkey is a NATO ally, but not a reliable one. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has developed close relations with authoritarian powers like Russia and China. Like his neo-imperialist friends, Erdogan longs for the resurrection of the Ottoman Empire which ruled much of the Middle Eas...
What America Misunderstands About the Islamic Republic of Iran
Foreign Podicy - June 07, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFilling in for host Cliff May this week is Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of FDD, and he’s joined by Karim Sadjadpour. They cover the full gamut of U.S. foreign policy on Iran, from looking back at President Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic and President Trump’s 2018 withdrawa...
A Conversation with Amos Hochstein
Carnegie Connects - June 06, 2024 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs the Israel-Hamas war drags on, the potential for spillover effects increase. Three conflict areas have emerged that carry serious risk of escalation: first, growing tensions between Israel and Hezbollah along the Israeli-Lebanese border, attacks by Iranian-backed Houthis against international...
Talk Like an Egyptian
Foreign Podicy - May 30, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state was Egypt. Following the Yom Kippur War of 1973, came the Camp David Accords of 1978 which provided both countries with tangible benefits. While the peace has never been warm, it has held. But since October 7, Egypt’s behavior h...
News from 1,000 BCE
Foreign Podicy - May 24, 2024 17:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHamas called its October 7 terrorist attack “Operation al Aqsa Flood,” suggesting a religious – rather than nationalistic – motive. The al Aqsa compound, the third holiest site in Islam, sits atop the ruins of both the ancient temples of the Jews. The first was built by King Solomon and was des...
The Israel-Hamas War: A Conversation with Israeli Ambassador Michael Herzog
Carnegie Connects - May 23, 2024 09:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsSeven months on, the Israel-Hamas war continues with seemingly no end in sight, against a backdrop of escalating regional tensions. While Israel remains determined to pursue a major military operation in Rafah, indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over the release of hostages and a cea...
Reviving the Arsenal of Democracy
Foreign Podicy - May 17, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmericans and our allies confront an extraordinary array of threats from an emerging “axis of aggressors,” consisting of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. That’s the bad news.The good news? Americans have an unmatched network of allies and partners with whom we can work to defend our common ...
Saving Private Sinwar
Foreign Podicy - May 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsA war is being waged against Israel by Iran’s rulers and their proxies, and they don’t hide their goal — they boast of it: annihilation. Extermination. Genocide. Now seven months into Israel’s defensive war in Gaza following the heinous terrorist attacks of October 7, Hamas is down but not out....
Israel and Iran: How to Prevent a Regional War
Carnegie Connects - May 09, 2024 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe recent attacks by Iran and Israel on one another’s territory have taken the strategic rivalry between these two adversaries into uncharted and dangerous territory. The unprecedented strikes seem to have been contained for now, but it’s by no means certain that this state will hold. The under...
Turtle Baywatch
Foreign Podicy - May 03, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn the aftermath of World War II, the establishment of the United Nations seemed like a promising idea: global unity in resolving conflicts peacefully while promoting human rights. Surely everyone in the new international community will support such efforts, right? Wrong. U.N. corruption is obv...
The Road From Riyadh to Jerusalem
Foreign Podicy - April 26, 2024 16:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAli Khamenei, Iran’s longtime ruler, saw the possibility of normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia as a threat to his hegemonic ambitions. On Oct. 7, Hamas, one of Tehran’s proxies, invaded Israel and committed multiple acts of barbarism. That sparked a war and froze prospects for a new S...
Congress’ Role in Foreign Policy: A Conversation With Rep. Mikie Sherrill
Carnegie Connects - April 25, 2024 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsCongress is more involved in foreign policy — both formally and informally — than most Americans realize. With the war in Ukraine entering its third year, the Israeli-Hamas war continuing with no end in sight, and economic competition with China rising, Congress is likely to take a greater inter...
Jerusalem and Tehran Consider Their Options
Foreign Podicy - April 18, 2024 22:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsLast weekend, Iran’s rulers launched a massive missile and drone assault on Israel. Though the attack was thwarted, it should be obvious that the Islamic Republic is willing to pursue its goal of “Death to Israel!” — not just by utilizing Arab proxies and pawns, but now also directly from withi...
The Thickening Fog of War
Foreign Podicy - April 12, 2024 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSix months after Iranian-backed terrorists perpetrated the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Israel’s ground war against Hamas in Gaza, its conflict with Lebanon-based Hezbollah in Israel’s north, and Tehran’s multi-front shadow war against the Jewish state continue. For a status u...
Israel's Shadow War
Foreign Podicy - April 05, 2024 17:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe Israeli airstrike next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus on April 1 targeted several high-ranking members of Iran’s Quds Force — an elite division of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, which is designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Among those killed: top IRGC-QF comma...
Ronald Meets the Donald
Foreign Podicy - March 29, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsPresident Reagan knew a detent with the Soviet Union wouldn’t win the Cold War. If we take off the gloves and force Soviet communism to compete with American democracy, he thought, the U.S. will prevail. In a phrase: “We win, they lose.” He was right. The U.S. won. The Soviet Union collapsed. ...
Can Israel Win Its War With Hamas? A Conversation With Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
Carnegie Connects - March 28, 2024 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs the Israeli-Hamas war enters its sixth month, the conflict shows no signs of abating. The humanitarian plight of Gazans continues to deteriorate while the prospects of a major Israeli ground campaign in Rafah looms. At the same time, the negotiations surrounding a potential hostage deal appea...
John Bolton’s New World Order
Foreign Podicy - March 22, 2024 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAfter World War II, the United States attempted to construct something new: a liberal, American-led, rules-based international order that would promote human rights, Enlightenment values, and democracy. Today, the dictatorial rulers of China, Russia, and Iran are attempting to establish somethi...
Ali Khamenei’s Nuclear Ambitions and Weapons of Mass Distraction
Foreign Podicy - March 15, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn Gaza, Israelis are fighting a ground war – and an underground war – against Hamas, a proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israelis also are responding to missile attacks from Hezbollah, Tehran’s Lebanon-based foreign legion. These are serious conflicts. But they are not separate conflicts. ...
On Safari with Admiral Montgomery
Foreign Podicy - March 08, 2024 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsNext month marks 30 years since the onset of the world’s worst mass slaughter since the Holocaust: the Rwandan genocide. Among the forces that ushered in an end to the conflict was a military officer who would ultimately become Rwanda’s president: Paul Kagame. FDD’s RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery...
View of the World from Boston
Foreign Podicy - March 01, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsJoining Cliff for this episode is Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, whose first column appeared 30 years ago this week. Jeff’s career as a journalist has included interviews with Elie Wiesel and Mikhail Gorbachev, and on-the-ground reporting from such exotic locales as Cuba, the Korean DMZ, an...
Getting China Right: A Conversation With David Rennie
Carnegie Connects - February 29, 2024 20:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsLate last year, the Economist asked an intriguing question: How scary is China? President Joe Biden’s administration clearly considers China a peer competitor to the United States and many in Congress view Beijing as a mortal threat. There’s no doubt that China poses serious challenges, even dan...
The UN’s Support for Hamas’ War On Israel
Foreign Podicy - February 23, 2024 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGiven the mandate of the United Nations, you might think a genocide perpetrated by a terrorist organization against a democracy in the Middle East would be an opportunity for the UN to exercise its moral authority — perhaps even an obligation, considering the U.S. tax dollars that bankroll it. ...
U.S. Policy and the Israel-Hamas War: A Conversation with Ambassador David Satterfield
Carnegie Connects - February 20, 2024 21:17 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratingsAs the Israel-Gaza war enters its fifth month, the humanitarian situation for 2.3 million Gazans is increasingly dire. A grinding process of inspections of trucks has slowed delivery of aid, while Israel's ground campaign in southern Gaza—where an estimated 1.9 million displaced Palestinians now...
The Battle in Rafah, the War with Tehran
Foreign Podicy - February 16, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAs Israel's defensive war in Gaza enters its fifth month, host Cliff May is joined by FDD experts retired Major General Amir Eshel and retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery to talk about the current state of the war including how many Hamas terrorists are thought to remain active on the battlefie...
A moment of decision for Americans
Foreign Podicy - February 09, 2024 18:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe U.S. is in a decisive moment. Harried by turmoil and challenges at home, many Americans look overseas and see a world on fire. Ukrainians are fighting for their lives against Putin, wondering whether the west will abandon them; Beijing is undertaking an unprecedented military expansion in p...
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