Christopher Nichols, professor of history and Wayne Woodrow Hayes chair in National Security Studies at The Ohio State University, Emily Conroy-Krutz, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, and Jay Sexton, professor of history and Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how ideology has historically influenced and shaped U.S. foreign policy. 

This episode originally aired on November 1, 2022.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Emily Conroy-Krutz, Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic 

Kathryn Gin Lum, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History 

David Hollinger, Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 

Karl Marx, The German Ideology 

Melanie McAlister, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals 

Christopher McKnight Nichols, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age 

Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne, eds., Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy: New Histories 

Jay Sexton, A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History 

The White House, Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Cgsierra%40cfr.org%7C632532e334d04aa99e8c08dab87a315a%7C146cc3db32f24b3c815625bcc3553464%7C0%7C0%7C638025132196257511%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a78lJxfRreOlNUN9nH0SThBbni3CwwLYsKvkw%2BjyjAo%3D&reserved=0">Biden-Harris Administration's National Security Strategy: October 2022  

Jenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center and the director of Stimson’s 38 North program, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss North Korea’s nuclear advances and their consequences for the security situation in Northeast Asia.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/north-koreas-nuclear-program-jenny-town

Esther Brimmer, The James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance at The Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss a recent multilateral agreement reached at the United Nations to protect biodiversity in the world’s oceans.

Mentioned on the Podcast

“What’s Cracking in The Arctic,” Why It Matters

UN General Assembly, Draft Agreement Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction [PDF]

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/the-un-high-seas-treaty-with-esther-brimmer 

Paul Scharre, the vice president and director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping great power competition and intensifying the geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States.

Mentioned on the Podcast

“Killer Robots and Autonomous Weapons With Paul Scharre,” The President’s Inbox

Paul Scharre, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War

Paul Scharre, Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/artificial-intelligence-and-great-power-competition-paul-scharre

Edward Alden, the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at CFR and Ross Dist Visiting Professor at Western Washington University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the crisis at the U.S. southern border and the domestic debates over U.S. immigration policy. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Edward Alden, Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

Edward Alden, “When Goods Move but People Don't,” Barron’s

Edward Alden, When the World Closed Its Doors: The COVID Pandemic and the Future of Border Control [Forthcoming]

Edward Alden and Tess Turner, “More Lost Chances for Immigration Reform,” CFR.org 

Jeb Bush, Thomas F. III McLarty, and Edward Alden, U.S. Immigration Policy 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at:   https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/us-immigration-policy-edward-alden

Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Mexico’s new electoral law and other developments that may be eroding the country’s democratic governance. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Shannon K. O’Neil, “More Soldiers Won’t Curb Mexico’s Rampant Violence,” CFR.org

Shannon K. O’Neil, The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

Shannon K. O’Neil, Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

“The Globalization Myth with Shannon K. O’Neil,” The President’s Inbox

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/mexicos-democratic-backsliding-shannon-k-oneil

Ebenezer Obadare, the Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the results of Nigeria’s presidential election and their consequences. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Africa in Transition, CFR.org

Ebenezer Obadare, “A Chance to Consolidate,” CFR.org

Ebenezer Obadare, Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare, “What’s at Stake in Nigeria’s General Elections?,” CFR.org

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/nigerias-general-election-ebenezer-obadare

Fiona S. Cunningham, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss China’s expanding nuclear weapons program and the likelihood of an arms race with the United States. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Fiona S. Cunningham, “Cooperation Under Asymmetry? The Future of U.S.-China Nuclear Relations,” The Washington Quarterly

Fiona S. Cunningham, “Strategic Substitution: China's Search for Coercive Leverage in the Information Age,” International Security

Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China's Military Strategy Since 1949

Taylor Fravel and Evan S. Medeiros, “China’s Search for Assured Retaliation: The Evolution of Chinese Nuclear Strategy and Force Structure [PDF],” International Security

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/chinas-nuclear-forces-fiona-s-cunningham

Samuel Charap, a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Miranda Priebe, director of the Center for Analysis of U.S. Grand Strategy and a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss where the war in Ukraine is headed and how U.S. foreign policy should respond.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe, 1.html">Avoiding a Long War: U.S. Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/long-war-ukraine-samuel-charap-and-miranda-priebe

Michelle Gavin, the Ralph Bunche senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the impact of climate change in the Horn of Africa. This series is made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Michelle Gavin, Climate Change and Regional Instability in the Horn of Africa

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/what-climate-change-means-horn-africa-michelle-gavin

Jonathan Berkshire Miller, senior fellow and director of foreign affairs, national defense, and national security at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Canada’s first Indo-Pacific strategy and the implications for its allies. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

“pacific-indo-pacifique-en.pdf">Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy [PDF],” Government of Canada

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/canadas-indo-pacific-strategy-jonathan-berkshire-miller

Sheila Smith, the John E. Merow senior fellow for Asia-Pacific studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the reasoning behind Japan’s new defense strategy and the Japanese government’s decision to double defense spending.

Mentioned on the Podcast

“National Defense Strategy of Japan [PDF],” Ministry of Defense of Japan

“e.pdf">National Security Strategy of Japan [PDF],” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

“SIPRI Military Expenditure Database,” SIPRI.org

Sheila Smith, “Financing Japan’s Defense Leap,” CFR.org

Sheila Smith, “How Japan Is Doubling Down on Its Military Power,” CFR.org

Sheila Smith, Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/japan-rearmed-sheila-smith

Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss his new book, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Richard Haass, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens

Richard Haass, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order

Richard Haass, The World: A Brief Introduction

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/obligations-american-citizens-richard-haass 

Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council and professor and director of global health studies at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations, and Zongyuan Zoe Liu, a fellow for international political economy at the Council, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the consequences of China’s decision to end its zero-COVID policy.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Yanzhong Huang, “covid.html">China’s Struggle With Covid Is Just Beginning,” New York Times

Yanzhong Huang, Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and Its Challenge to the Chinese State

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System?

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, “Zero-COVID Is the Least of Xi’s Economic Problems,” Foreign Policy

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/chinas-covid-surge-yanzhong-huang-and-zongyuan-zoe-liu

Martin S. Indyk, the Lowy distinguished fellow in U.S.-Middle East diplomacy at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the consequences of Benjamin Netanyahu’s return as Israel’s prime minister.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Steven A. Cook and Martin S. Indyk, The Case for a New U.S.-Saudi Strategic Compact

Martin S. Indyk, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/israels-new-government-martin-indyk

Joshua Kurlantzick, a senior fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how China uses its media power to influence the domestic politics of countries around the world. 

Enter the CFR book giveaway by Jan 17, 2023, for the chance to win one of ten free copies of Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World  by Joshua Kurlantzick. You can read the terms and conditions of the offer here. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Joshua Kurlantzick, Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China’s Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World

“How Many Confucius Institutes Are in the United States?” National Association of Scholars

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/chinas-global-influence-campaign-joshua-kurlantzick

In this special series of The President’s Inbox on climate change, Paul J. Angelo, the director of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the impact of climate change in Central America. This series is made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Paul Angelo, Climate Change and Regional Instability in Central America

“Country Index,” Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative

“qhsr-final-508.pdf">The 2014 Quadrennial Homeland Security Review [PDF],” The U.S. Department of Homeland Security

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/what-climate-change-means-central-america-paul-j-angelo

Edward Alden, the Bernard L. Schwartz senior fellow at CFR and Ross Dist Visiting Professor at Western Washington University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the Biden administration’s economic policies are creating rifts with some of the United States’ closest allies. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Edward Alden, “Biden’s ‘America First’ Economic Policy Threatens Rift With Europe,” Foreign Policy

Edward Alden, Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy

Wendy Cutler and Clete Willems, Reimagining the TPP: Revisions That Could Facilitate U.S. Reentry, Asia Society

Shannon K. O’Neil, The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

“The U.S.-China Economic Cold War, With Sebastian Mallaby,” The President’s Inbox

White House, Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf">National Security Strategy

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/bidens-america-first-economic-policy-edward-alden

Liana Fix, a fellow for Europe at CFR, and Michael Kimmage, a history professor at the Catholic University of America and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the current status of the war in Ukraine and to assess the strategies that Russia, Ukraine, and the West are pursuing.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Liana Fix, Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy: A New German Power?

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “Go Slow on Crimea: Why Ukraine Should Not Rush to Retake the Peninsula,” Foreign Affairs

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, The Ukraine Scenarios, Foreign Affairs

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “What If the War in Ukraine Doesn’t End?,” Foreign Affairs

Michael Kimmage, The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy

“Putin’s Choices,” The President’s Inbox

Olaf Scholz, “The Global Zeitenwende,” Foreign Affairs

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/war-ukraine-liana-fix-and-michael-kimmage

Sebastian Mallaby, the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council and a columnist at the Washington Post, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the likely consequences of the recent U.S. ban on the export of advanced semiconductor chips and technology to China. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/us-china-economic-cold-war-sebastian-mallaby

Scott A. Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the global implications of North Korea’s recent missile tests.

This episode originally aired on March 22, 2022.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Scott Snyder, “A ‘Political Novice’ Will Soon be in Charge of South Korean Foreign Policy,” CFR.org via Forbes

Scott Snyder, South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at:  https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/north-korea-challenge-scott-snyder 

Daniel Silverberg, managing director at global strategy firm Capstone and adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Christopher Tuttle, senior fellow and director of the Renewing America Initiative at the Council, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the results of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and its impact on U.S. foreign policy.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Chris Tuttle, “What the Midterm Elections Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy”

Robert Draper, “taylor-greene.html">The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene,” The New York Times Magazine

In this special series of The President’s Inbox on climate change, Beza Tesfaye, director of Research and Learning for Migration and Climate Change at Mercy Corps and senior associate for the Project on Fragility and Mobility at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the impact of climate change in the Sahel region. This series is made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Beza Tesfaye, Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel

Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the causes and consequences of the recent protests in Iran. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Suzanne Maloney, ed., The Iranian Revolution at Forty 

Christopher Nichols, professor of history and Wayne Woodrow Hayes chair in National Security Studies at The Ohio State University, Emily Conroy-Krutz, associate professor of history at Michigan State University, and Jay Sexton, professor of history and Rich and Nancy Kinder Chair of Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how ideology has historically influenced and shaped U.S. foreign policy.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Emily Conroy-Krutz, Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic 

Kathryn Gin Lum, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History 

David Hollinger, Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America

Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte 

Karl Marx, The German Ideology 

Melanie McAlister, The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals 

Christopher McKnight Nichols, Promise and Peril: America at the Dawn of a Global Age 

Christopher McKnight Nichols and David Milne, eds., Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy: New Histories 

Jay Sexton, A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History 

The White House, Harris-Administrations-National-Security-Strategy-10.2022.pdf">Biden-Harris Administration's National Security Strategy: October 2022

Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the future of the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia in the wake of the decision by OPEC+ to cut oil production.  

Mentioned on the Podcast

Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, “Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy,” Foreign Affairs

Steven A. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East 

Steven A. Cook and Martin Indyk, The Case for a New U.S.-Saudi Strategic Compact

Steven A. Cook and Martin Indyk, “Go Big In Saudi Arabia,” Foreign Affairs

Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest trend of the past forty years—and why that matters.

Show Notes

Enter the CFR book giveaway before November 2, 2022, for the chance to win one of ten free copies of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter by Shannon K. O'Neil. You can read the terms and conditions of the offer here. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Shannon K. O’Neil, The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

Shannon K. O’Neil, Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead

Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of T-Shirt in a Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

Chrystia Freeland, “Remarks by the Deputy Prime Minister at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.”

Ian Johnson, Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the Chinese Communist Party’s upcoming 20th National Congress means for China and its approach to the world.

Mentioned on the Podcast

“China’s Domestic Challenges, With Ian Johnson,” The President’s Inbox

Ian Johnson, “How Xi Will Consolidate Power at China’s Twentieth Party Congress,” CFR.org

Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao

Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China

The Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council and the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, “The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era”

Liana Fix, a CFR fellow for Europe, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how German foreign policy has changed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and whether the Kremlin’s decision to halt natural gas exports will force Berlin to end its support for Kyiv. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “Putin’s Next Move in Ukraine,” Foreign Affairs  

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “The Ukraine Scenarios,” Foreign Affairs

Suzanne Nossel, the Chief Executive Officer of PEN America, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss growing threats around the world to free expression and how the fight to protect human rights needs to adapt to succeed in a world of great power competition.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Freedom House, Tracking Democracy and Freedom Around the World

PEN America, PEN Freedom to Write Index

Reporters Without Borders, World: Abuses in Real Time

Suzanne Nossel, Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All

Suzanne Nossel, “Salman Rushdie’s Entire Life Has Been an Act of Defiance,” The Guardian

Suzanne Nossel, “The Old Human Rights Playbook Won’t Work Anymore,” Foreign Policy

Suzanne Nossel and Leslie Vinjamuri, “Some Assembly Required: Why the UN’s Broadest Forum Matters More Than Ever,” Foreign Affairs

Leslie Vinjamuri, the Director of the US and the Americas programme and Dean of the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs at Chatham House, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what a new monarch, a new prime minister, and the legacy of Brexit mean for Britain’s future.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Charles A. Kupman and Leslie Vinjamuri, eds., Anchoring the World: International Order in the Twenty-First Century

Leslie Vinjamuri, “How Brexit and Boris Broke Britain,” Foreign Affairs

The Government of the United Kingdom Cabinet Office, Global Britain in a Competitive Age: the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy

Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the success of Ukraine's recent military counteroffensive and how Russia is likely to respond. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Max Boot, “Putin Wants to Terrorize Ukraine Into Submission. It’s Not Working,” Washington Post 

Max Boot, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Tim Lister and Darya Tarasova, “Russia’s Collapse in Northeast Ukraine Ignites Fury From Putin Loyalists,” CNN

Evan Greenberg, chairman and CEO of Chubb, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss growing tensions in U.S.-China economic relations, the importance of trade to the U.S. economy, and the steps needed to sustain the competitiveness of the American economy.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Evan Greenberg, “Championing Global Trade Is in America’s National Interest,” Economist

Gernot Wagner, climate economist at Columbia Business School, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss progress in the green energy transition and the risks and benefits of carbon capture and solar geoengineering technologies.

Mentioned on the Podcast

“America’s Domination of Oil and Gas Will Not Cow China,” The Economist

Jason E. Box, et al, “Greenland Ice Sheet Climate Disequilibrium and Committed Sea-Level Rise,” Nature Climate Change 

Isabel Schnabel, “Looking Through Higher Energy Prices? Monetary Policy and the Green Transition,” remarks delivered to the American Finance Association

Isabel Schnabel, “A New Age of Energy Inflation: Climateflation, Fossilflation and Greenflation,” remarks delivered to The ECB and Its Watchers XXII

Gernot Wagner, Geoengineering: The Gamble

Ian Johnson, CFR’s Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss economic, political, and demographic developments within China.

This episode originally aired on February 8, 2022.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Li Yuan, “infection-illuminates-a-migrant-workers-tale-of-inequality-in-china.html">A coronavirus infection illuminates a migrant worker’s tale of inequality in China.” New York Times, January 31, 2022.

Books Mentioned

Elizabeth Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future (2004)

Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao (2017)

Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at CFR and Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the current course of the war in Ukraine and the potential for a diplomatic settlement to end the fighting.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Tom Friedman, “pelosi-taiwan-china.html">Why Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Is Utterly Reckless,” New York Times

Alexey Levinson, “Frozen in Excitement,” Riddle

Stephen Sestanovich, Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama

James M. Lindsay sits down with Ali Wyne, senior analyst of Global Macro-Geopolitics at Eurasia Group, to discuss great power competition and the growing rivalry between the United States and China, and Russia.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Ali Wyne, America’s Great Power Opportunity, 2022

Gerald Segel, “Does China Matter?,” Foreign Affairs, September/October 1999

Nadège Rolland, “China’s Southern Strategy: Beijing Is Using the Global South to Constrain America,” Foreign Affairs, June 9, 2022

Bonny Lin and Jude Blanchette, “China on the Offensive: How the Ukraine War Has Changed Beijing’s Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, August 1, 2022

Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Liberman, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, 2020

Suzanne Mettler, “Democracy Tested: Democratic Crises in U.S. History,” The President’s Inbox, August 3, 2022

James M. Lindsay sits down with Bonnie S. Glaser, director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, to discuss House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan and its impact on U.S.-China relations.

Mentioned on the Podcast

Bonnie Glaser, China Global Podcast, German Marshall Fund of the United States

James M. Lindsay sits down with Michael R. Gordon, national security correspondent at the Wall Street Journal, to discuss the U.S. war against ISIS. 

Mentioned on the Podcast

Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, 2006

Michael R. Gordon, Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, 2022

Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama, 2012

Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, The Generals' War: The Inside Story of the Conflict in the Gulf, 1996

Becca Wasser et al, “1.html">The Air War Against the Islamic State: The Role of Airpower in Operation Inherent Resolve,” RAND Corporation, 2021

Jami Miscik, CEO of Global Strategic Insights, Inc., and Adam Segal, director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at CFR, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the fragmentation of the internet, cybercrime and cyber espionage, and the future of U.S. cyberspace policy.

Mentioned on the Podcast

David Cattler and Daniel Black, “The Myth of the Missing Cyberwar,” Foreign Affairs, April 6, 2022

Council on Foreign Relations, Confronting Reality in Cyberspace: Foreign Policy for a Fragmented Internet, July 2022

Erica D. Lonergan, “The Cyber-Escalation Fallacy,” Foreign Affairs, April 15, 2022

Adam Segal, The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age, November 2015

Michael Kofman, director of the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analyses, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Russian and Ukrainian military strategies, equipment, and the likely future course of the war.

The President’s Inbox is pleased to present an episode from Foreign Affairs’ new podcast, The Foreign Affairs Interview. In this episode, Jason Bordoff, co-founding dean of the Columbia Climate School, and Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick professor of the practice of international affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, sit down with Foreign Affairs Editor Dan Kurtz-Phelan to discuss the geopolitics of energy in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the transition to clean energy. 

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Jason Bordoff and Meghan O’Sullivan, “Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 2022)

Jason Bordoff and Meghan O’Sullivan, “The New Energy Order: How Governments Will Transform Energy Markets,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2022)

Podcasts Mentioned

Jason Bordoff and Kadri Simson, “Europe’s Difficult Energy Decisions,” Columbia Energy Exchange, May 10, 2022

Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, The Foreign Affairs Interview

Julie Dorf, co-chair of the Council for Global Equality, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the United States has done and could do to advance LGBTQI+ rights around the world.

Documents and Speeches Mentioned

Hillary Clinton, “Human Rights Day Speech” (2011)

Hillary Clinton, “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” (1995)

Joseph R. Biden, Memorandum on Advancing the Human Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex Persons Around the World (2021)

Aaron L. Friedberg, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the United States got China wrong and what the Biden administration can do to rectify its China strategy.

Books and Articles Mentioned

Aaron L. Friedberg, Getting China Wrong (2022)

Samuel P. Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century (1993)

Michael Mandelbaum, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower (2022)

David Shambaugh, China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation (2008)

Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” The National Interest (1989)

David Sacks, research fellow at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the Biden administration’s strategy toward Taiwan amid growing threats from China.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Richard Haass and David Sacks, “The Growing Danger of U.S. Ambiguity on Taiwan,” Foreign Affairs, December 13, 2021

Michael Mandelbaum, Christian A. Herter professor emeritus of American foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the continuities and changes in U.S. foreign policy over the last two and a half centuries.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Michael Mandelbaum, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower (2022)

Michael Mandelbaum, The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth (2019)

Jamie Jones Miller and Shelly O’Neill Stoneman, executive committee co-chairs of The Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS), sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the challenges of achieving gender parity in the U.S. national security community. 

Websites Mentioned on the Podcast

The Leadership Council for Women in National Security (2022)

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, adjunct senior fellow at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to assess the Biden administration’s “worker-centric” foreign economic policies.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Heidi Crebo-Rediker and Doug Rediker, “A Real Foreign Policy for the Middle Class,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 2022)

Sheila A. Smith, CFR’s John E. Merow senior fellow for Asia-Pacific studies, and Scott A. Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at CFR, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what to expect from U.S. President Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Japan and South Korea.

Books and Blogs Mentioned on the Podcast

Asia Unbound, CFR.org

Sheila A. Smith, Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (2019)

Scott A. Snyder, Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers (2018)

Statements Mentioned

“U.S.-ROK Leaders’ Joint Statement,” The White House, May 21, 2021

Steven A. Cook, CFR’s Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how countries throughout the Middle East are responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Steven Cook, “The Middle East Kumbaya Moment Won’t Last,” Foreign Policy, May 6, 2022

Books Mentioned

Steven Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East (2019)

Derek H. Chollet, Counselor of the U.S. Department of State, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the Biden administration’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Derek H. Chollet, The Middle Way: How Three Presidents Shaped America’s Role in the World (2021)

Statements and Polls Mentioned

Ashley Parker, et al, “Big majority of Americans back sanctions on Russia, aid to Ukraine, poll finds,” May 2, 2022

“Secretary Antony J. Blinken on Russia’s Threat to Peace and Security at the UN Security Council,” U.S. State Department, February 17, 2022

Ebenezer Obadare, Douglas Dillon senior fellow for Africa studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how African countries are responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Ebenezer Obadare, “Analyzing the Russia-Ukraine Conflict from an African Standpoint,” CFR.org, March 3, 2022

Ebenezer Obadare, “Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine May Drive a Wedge Between the West and Africa,” CFR.org, March 22, 2022

Blogs & Books Mentioned

Ebenezer Obadare, Africa in Transition, CFR.org

Ebenezer Obadare, Christianity, Sexuality and Citizenship in Africa (2019)

Yascha Mounk, senior fellow at CFR and professor of the practice of international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the challenges that ethnically, racially, and religiously diverse democracies face. This episode is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy.  

Enter the CFR book giveaway before May 4, 2022, for the chance to win one of ten free copies of The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk. You can read the terms and conditions of the offer here.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Yascha Mounk, The Great Experiment (2022)

Yascha Mounk, The People Vs. Democracy (2018)

Articles and Reports Mentioned

Dillingham Commission Reports, U.S. Senate via Hathi Trust (1911)

Publius Decius Mus [Michael Anton], “The Flight 93 Election,” Claremont Review of Books, September 5, 2016

Ivo H. Daalder, president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the Russian invasion of Ukraine means for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Articles and Podcasts Mentioned on the Podcast

Ivo H. Daalder, "The Return of Containment,” Foreign Affairs, March 1, 2022

Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, "Why Putin Underestimated the West," Foreign Affairs, April 7, 2022

Ivo H. Daalder, World Review with Ivo Daalder, Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Books Mentioned

Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, The Empty Throne: America's Abdication of Global Leadership (2018)

Ivo H. Daalder, Getting to Dayton: The Making of America's Bosnia Policy (2000)

Audrey Kurth Cronin, distinguished professor at American University’s School of International Service and founding director of the Center for Security, Innovation and New Technology, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how technology, innovation, and social media are shaping Russia’s war in Ukraine and what it might mean for the future.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Audrey Kurth Cronin, Great Power Politics and the Struggle over Austria, 1945-1955 (1986)

Audrey Kurth Cronin, Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow’s Terrorists (2020)

Michael Kimmage, professor of history at the Catholic University of America and visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the choices Russian President Vladimir Putin faces in Ukraine.

Articles and Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “What If Russia Loses?” ForeignAffairs.com, March 4, 2022

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “What If Russia Makes a Deal?” ForeignAffairs.com, March 23, 2022

Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage, “What If Russia Wins?” ForeignAffairs.com, February 18, 2022

Michael Kimmage, The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy (2020)

Speeches and Podcasts Mentioned

Joe Biden, “Remarks by President Biden on the United Efforts of the Free World to Support the People of Ukraine,” Warsaw, Poland, March 26, 2022

Liana Fix, "Germany's Foreign Policy," The President's Inbox, February 15, 2022

Scott A. Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the global implications of North Korea’s recent missile tests.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Scott Snyder, South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers (2018)

Articles Mentioned

Scott Snyder, “A ‘Political Novice’ Will Soon be in Charge of South Korean Foreign Policy,” CFR.org via Forbes, March 7, 2022

Patricia M. Kim, David M. Rubenstein fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how China views Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Yoon Suk-yeol, “South Korea Needs to Step Up: The Country’s Next President on His Foreign Policy Vision,” Foreign Affairs, February 8, 2022

Statements Mentioned

Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development, The Kremlin, February 4, 2022

Thomas Graham, distinguished fellow at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss why Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine and whether the fighting might spread beyond its borders.

Reports Mentioned on the Podcast

Thomas Graham, “Preventing a Wider European Conflict,” Council on Foreign Relations, March 8, 2022

Matthias Matthijs, senior fellow for Europe at CFR and associate professor of international political economy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how European capitals are reacting to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Statements Mentioned on the Podcast

“A French-German Initiative for the European Recovery from the Coronavirus Crisis,” Élysée, May 18, 2020

Charles A. Kupchan, senior fellow at CFR and professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its sweeping ramifications for global order. 

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Charles A. Kupchan, “Why Putin’s War With Ukraine Is a miscalculation,” CFR.org, February 24, 2022

Charles A. Kupchan, “The Right Way to Split China and Russia,” Foreign Affairs, August 4, 2021

Books Mentioned

Charles A. Kupchan, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself From the World (2020)

Shannon K. O’Neil, CFR’s vice president, deputy director of studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss recent developments in Mexico and U.S.-Mexico relations.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Shannon O’Neil, Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United Staes, and the Road Ahead (2013)

Articles Mentioned

Edward Alden, “Decades Late, NAFTA’s Promise on Workers’ Rights Comes Good,” Foreign Policy via CFR.org, February 8, 2022

Liana Fix, resident fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Germany’s new government is approaching foreign policy.

Ian Johnson, CFR’s Stephen A. Schwarzman senior fellow for China studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss economic, political, and demographic developments within China.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Li Yuan, “infection-illuminates-a-migrant-workers-tale-of-inequality-in-china.html">A coronavirus infection illuminates a migrant worker’s tale of inequality in China.” New York Times, January 31, 2022.

Books Mentioned

Elizabeth Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future (2004)

Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao (2017)

Sebastian Mallaby, CFR’s Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are shaping the future of innovation and the global economy.

Enter the CFR book giveaway before February 16, 2022, for the chance to win one of ten free copies of The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future by Sebastian Mallaby. You can read the terms and conditions of the offer here.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast

Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (2010)

Sebastian Mallaby, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan (2016)

Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future (2022)

Sebastian Mallaby, The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (2004)

Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger distinguished professor of global affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what lessons the United States can draw from the Cold War for understanding our new era of great power rivalry.

Books Mentioned on the Podcast 

Hal Brands, The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us about Great-Power Rivalry Today (2022) 

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast 

Hal Brands, “Containment Can Work Against China, Too,” Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2021 

Hal Brands, “The Overstretched Superpower,” Foreign Affairs, January 18, 2022 

Richard Fontaine, “Washington’s Missing China Strategy,” Foreign Affairs, January 14, 2022 

“X” (George Kennan), “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs (July 1947) 

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay to assess how the Biden administration has handled foreign policy in its first year in office.

Books Mentioned in the Podcast

Richard Haass, The World: A Brief Introduction (2020)

Podcasts Mentioned

Richard Haass, Nine Questions for the World, Council on Foreign Relations

Anne Appelbaum and Richard Haass, “Can Democracy Survive?” Nine Questions for the World, December 16, 2021

Fei-Fei Li and Richard Haass, “Can Societies Keep Up with Technology?” Nine Questions for the World, December 16, 2021

Michelle McMurry-Heath and Richard Haass, “Can Biotech Be Harnessed?” Nine Questions for the World, December 16, 2021

Elizabeth Perry and Richard Haass, “Will This Century Belong to China?” Nine Questions for the World, December 16, 2021

Michael Krepon, cofounder of and distinguished fellow at the Stimson Center, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the rise, demise, and possible revival of arms control efforts across the globe.

Books Mentioned in the Podcast

Michael Krepon, Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control (2021)

Statements Mentioned

“Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapon States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races,” The White House, January 3, 2022

In this special series of The President’s Inbox on the future of democracy, James M. Lindsay speaks with experts to discuss whether and where democratic governance is faltering around the world. This week, Suzanne Mettler, John L. Senior professor of American Institutions in the Government Department at Cornell University, places the current crisis of American democracy in historical perspective. This episode is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy. (This is a rebroadcast.)

Books Mentioned in the Podcast

Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy (2020)

Host James M. Lindsay sits down with senior advisor at the Marathon Initiative and chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Matt Pottinger, to discuss China’s ambitions and what they mean for the United States. (This is a rebroadcast.)

Articles Mentioned in the Podcast

Michael Beckley and Hal Brands, “The End of China’s Rise,” Foreign Affairs, October 1, 2021

Bilahari Kausikan, “In U.S.-China Standoff, Is America a Reliable Ally?,” Foreign Policy, October 18, 2021

Matt Pottinger, “Beijing’s American Hustle,” Foreign Affairs (September/October 2021)

Liza Tobin, “Xi’s Vision for Transforming Global Governance: A Strategic Challenge for Washington and Its Allies,” Texas National Security Review (November 2018)

Books Mentioned

Dan Blumenthal, The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State, (AEI Press, 2020)

Rush Doshi, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, (Brookings Institution Press, 2021)

Steven A. Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies and director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what's happening across the Middle East as 2021 comes to a close.

Books Mentioned in the Podcast 

Steven A. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East (2019) 

Events Mentioned 

“A Conversation with Jake Sullivan,” Council on Foreign Relations, December 17, 2021 

Mary Elise Sarotte, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis distinguished professor of historical studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the United States got right, and wrong, in its relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

Articles Mentioned in the Podcast

George Kennan, “Long Telegram” to the State Department, February 22, 1946

“X” (George Kennan), “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs (July 1947)

Vladimir Putin, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” The Kremlin, July 12, 2021

M.E. Sarotte, “Containment Beyond the Cold War: How Washington Lost the Post-Soviet Peace,” Foreign Affairs (November/December 2021)

Books Mentioned

M.E. Sarotte, Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (2021)

M.E. Sarotte, The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall (2014)

Helima Croft, managing director and head of global commodity strategy and Middle East and North Africa research at RBC Capital Markets, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss trends in the energy world.

Relevant Articles of Interest

Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan, “Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 2022)

Robinson Meyer, “The Energy Crunch, in Six Paragraphs,” The Atlantic, October 13, 2021

Daniel Yergin, “Why the Energy Transition Will Be So Complicated,” The Atlantic, November 27, 2021

Ambassador Mark Lippert, vice chairman of the Halifax Forum and senior advisor for the Center for Strategic and International Studies Korea Chair, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss U.S.-South Korean relations and the Biden administration’s broader Indo-Pacific strategy.

Polls Mentioned in the Podcast

Karl Friedhoff, “South Koreans See China as More Threat than Partner, But Not the Most Critical Threat Facing the Country,” Chicago Council, April 6, 2021

Hong Suk-ji, “Survey Results of South Korean Perception on the ROK-U.S. Alliance,” Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, November 2, 2021

Richard Wike et al., “What People Around the World Like–and Dislike–About American Society and Politics,” Pew Research Center, November 1, 2021

Statements Mentioned

“U.S.-ROK Leaders’ Joint Statement,” The White House, May 21, 2021

Webcasts Mentioned

Mark Lippert, The Capital Cable, CSIS Korea Chair

Sophia Besch, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the current state of transatlantic relations and whether Europeans think America is “back,” as President Joe Biden claims.

Articles Mentioned in the Podcast:

Wolfgang Münchau, “Germany's message to Europe,” EuroIntelligence, October 17, 2021

Michael Fullilove, executive director of the Lowy Institute in Sydney, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the trilateral security agreement that Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed in September 2021, and the broader state of affairs in the Indo-Pacific.

Articles, Documents, and Speeches Mentioned in the Podcast

China’s dossier of fourteen disputes with Australia via The Sydney Morning Herald, November 18, 2020

Natasha Kassam, Lowy Institute Poll 2021, Lowy Institute, June 23, 2021

“Remarks by President Biden, Prime Minister Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom Announcing the Creation of AUKUS,” The White House, September 15, 2021

Jake Sullivan, “2021 Lowy Lecture,” delivered virtually at the Lowy Institute, November 11, 2021

Books Mentioned

Michael Fullilove, Rendezvous with Destiny: How Franklin D. Roosevelt and Five Extraordinary Men Took America into the War and into the World (2013)

Fiona Hill, Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss U.S. policy toward Russia, and her new book, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century.

Articles Mentioned in the Podcast

Fiona Hill, “The Kremlin’s Strange Victory,” Foreign Affairs (November/December 2021)

George Kennan, “Long Telegram” to the State Department, February 22, 1946

“X” (George Kennan), “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs (July 1947)

Books Mentioned

Fiona Hill, Mr. Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (2015)  

Fiona Hill, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century (2021)

Martin S. Indyk, distinguished fellow at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy reshaped the politics of the Middle East and continues to offer lessons for U.S. foreign policy today.

Enter the CFR book giveaway before November 16, 2021, for the chance to win one of ten free copies of Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy by Martin S. Indyk. You can read the terms and conditions of the offer here.

Books Mentioned in the Podcast

Martin Indyk, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (Knopf, 2020)

Henry Kissinger, A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812–22 (Houghton Mifflin, 1957)

Henry Kissinger, World Order (Penguin Books, 2014)

Lynn Kuok, Shangri-La Dialogue senior fellow for Asia-Pacific Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the Biden administration’s policy toward the Asia-Pacific, and how those policies are viewed in southeast Asia.

Articles Mentioned on the Podcast

Lee Hsien Loong, “The Endangered Asian Century,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2020)

Adam Posen, “The Price of Nostalgia,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 2021)

Documents and Speeches Mentioned

ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific [PDF], ASEAN, June 22, 2019

Joseph R. Biden, 1v2.pdf">Interim National Security Strategic Guidance [PDF], The White House, March 2021

Mike Pompeo, “2021.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-future/index.html">Communist China and the Free World’s Future,” delivered at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, July 23, 2020

Sharon Seah et al., State-of-SEA-2021-v2.pdf">The State of Southeast Asia: 2021 [PDF], ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, January 2021

Matt Pottinger, senior advisor at the Marathon Initiative and chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss China’s ambitions and what they mean for the United States.

Articles Mentioned in the Podcast

Michael Beckley and Hal Brands, “The End of China’s Rise,” Foreign Affairs, October 1, 2021.

Bilahari Kausikan, “In U.S.-China Standoff, Is America a Reliable Ally?,” Foreign Policy, October 18, 2021.

Matt Pottinger, “Beijing’s American Hustle,” Foreign Affairs 100, no. 5 (September/October 2021).

Liza Tobin, “Xi’s Vision for Transforming Global Governance: A Strategic Challenge for Washington and Its Allies,” Texas National Security Review 2, no. 1 (November 2018).

Books Mentioned

Dan Blumenthal, The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State, (AEI Press, 2020).

Rush Doshi, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, (Brookings Institution Press, 2021).

Miles Kahler, senior fellow for global governance at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the recent Pandora Papers leak, and the broader problem of global corruption.

Manjari Chatterjee Miller, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at CFR, speaks with James M. Lindsay about what India sees as its interests, threats, and opportunities in the world.

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Fritz Stern chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic relations in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what the end of the Angela Merkel era means for Germany and its relations with the world.

Adam S. Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the United States has become less open to trade in recent decades and why calls for even more protectionism will further undermine the American middle class.

Elbridge A. Colby, cofounder and principal of the Marathon Initiative, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether and how the United States should revise its defense strategy to face its current challenges. Colby’s new book, The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict, hits bookstore shelves today.

Peter Martin, defense policy and intelligence reporter for Bloomberg News, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the growing assertiveness of China’s diplomacy in recent years. Martin’s new book, China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy, was released this past June.

Alice C. Hill, David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the steps policymakers, business leaders, and others need to take to address the changing climate. Hill’s new book, The Fight For Climate After COVID-19, will be published in September 2021.

Michelle Gavin, senior fellow for Africa Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the fighting in northern Ethiopia between federal government forces and regional Tigrayan forces.

Oriana Skylar Mastro, center fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and non-resident senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether China might use force to compel Taiwan’s reunification with the mainland. Mastro’s recent article, “The Taiwan Temptation: Why Beijing Might Resort to Force” is available on foreignaffairs.com.

Frances Z. Brown, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-director of Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss President Biden’s vow to put democracy at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy. Brown recently co-authored the article, “Washington’s Democracy Dilemma: Crafting a Democracy Strategy in an Age of Great-Power Politics.” This episode is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy. 

Rose Gottemoeller, former deputy secretary general of NATO and Payne distinguished lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the efforts to regulate, if not eliminate, nuclear weapons.

Paul J. Angelo, fellow for Latin America Studies at CFR, and Carmen Sesin, Miami-based NBCNews.com and NBCLatino reporter, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the historic protests that swept across Cuba and around the globe.

Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to assess the Biden administration’s foreign policy successes and shortcomings six months into the Biden presidency.

Rachel B. Vogelstein, CFR’s Douglas Dillon senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy program, and Meighan Stone, adjunct senior fellow in the Women and Foreign Policy program at CFR, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the impact of the #MeToo Movement across the globe. Vogelstein and Stone’s book, Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women’s Rights, hits bookstore shelves today.

David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the international community can hold accountable governments and terrorist groups that kill or brutalize civilians. Miliband’s recent Foreign Affairs article, “The Age of Impunity: And How to Fight It,” is available on foreignaffairs.com.

In this special Transition 2021 series of The President’s Inbox, James M. Lindsay sits down each week with experts to discuss the challenges facing the incoming Biden administration. This week, CFR’s Senior Fellow for Europe, Matthias Matthijs, and Senior Fellow for Japan studies, Sheila A. Smith, assess the prospects for repairing America’s relations with allies in Europe and Asia. (This is a rebroadcast.)

Rozlyn Engel, distinguished professor of the practice in economics at the U.S. Naval Academy, nonresident scholar in the Geo-Economics and Strategy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the relationship between foreign policy and the success of the middle class.

Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what’s at stake when Iranians head to the polls later this week.

Nicholas Wade, former editorial writer, science reporter, and science editor for The New York Times, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the theory that COVID-19 originated in an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Ambassador Stephen Sestanovich, CFR’s George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Belarus’s decision to force a commercial airliner to land in Minsk in order to arrest Belarusian journalist and blogger Roman Protasevich.