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 fore...
Geopolitical risk analyst Ian Bremmer joins FP Live to assess U.S. President Donald Trump’s first 50 days in office and how it is impacting the world.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Ravi Agrawal: Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World
Daniel C. Kurtzer and Aaron David Miller: Lessons from the Trump-Zelensky Confrontation
Howard W. French: Trump’s Plan for a Greatly Diminished America
Daniel W. Drezner: Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?
Stephen M. Walt: What I Got Wrong About Trump’s Second Term
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What Is America’s China Policy?
With so much of the focus in recent weeks on the Trump administration’s policies toward Europe, where does that leave the broader trajectory of the U.S.-China relationship? Expert and former Biden administration official Rush Doshi sits down with Ravi Agrawal to discuss.
Doshi is currently the C.V. Starr senior fellow for Asia studies and director of the China Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Rush Doshi: Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
Lili Pike: Trump’s Europe Shock Creates an Opening for China
Lili Pike: Did Biden Get China Right?
James Crabtree: Trump Could Make China Great Again
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The End of Human Rights?
“I don’t give up on Trump. I do think that, for the wrong reasons, we can get him to do the right things” says former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth. Roth sits down with Ravi Agrawal to share his take on human rights today amid democratic backsliding, ongoing conflict, and a new U.S. administration on the world stage.
Roth led Human Rights Watch for nearly 30 years and is the author of Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Transcript: Can the World Do Anything About Conflict in 2025?
Pankaj Mishra: How Gaza Shattered the West’s Mythology
Matthew M. Kavanagh and Luis Gil Abinader: Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitutional and Disastrous
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One-on-One With Finnish President Alexander Stubb
Finnish President Alexander Stubb sits down with Ravi Agrawal on the sidelines of the annual Munich Security Conference to discuss European security in Trump 2.0.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Transcript: Finland’s President: Trump’s Strategy ‘Is a Bit of a Seesaw’
Transcript: The Speech That Stunned Europe
C. Raja Mohan: India Sees Opportunities as Trump Jettisons the Western Order
James Crabtree: Trump Could Make China Great Again
Kishore Mahbubani: It’s Time for Europe to Do the Unthinkable
Kristi Raik: Europe’s 4 Different Ways of Handling Trump
Bojan Pancevski and Alexander Ward: Vance Wields Threat of Sanctions, Military Action to Push Putin Into Ukraine Deal
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Why the World Is So Polarized Over Gaza
How history will weigh the war in Gaza, with author Pankaj Mishra. Mishra recently previewed his new book on the subject with Foreign Policy, in a piece titled “How Gaza Shattered the West’s Mythology.” He shares more now with Ravi Agrawal.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Pankaj Mishra: The World After Gaza: A History
Pankaj Mishra: How Gaza Shattered the West’s Mythology
David E. Rosenberg: Why Gaza Is Israel’s Forever War
Ran Greenstein: Settler Colonialism Isn’t What You Think It Is
Howard W. French: Why Are We Ignoring Human Rights Criticism of Israel?
FP Contributors: What Trump’s Gaza Plan Means for the World
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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. FP Live is your weekly fix for smart thinking about the world.
Foreign Policy magazine subscribers can watch these interviews live and submit questions and suggestions by going to https://foreignpolicy.com/live/.