Foreign Affairs Unedited

Foreign Affairs Unedited episodes:

• 04.04.2016

  The Sound of the Economy: Data Sonification and the Cheeseburger Index

  For the most part, when people think of crunching numbers, they imagine charts and graphs. Today on the podcast, we’re exploring unusual ways to look at—or rather, listen to—data. Sound can perhaps present information with more urgency and clarity than a...

  
• 02.22.2016

  How to Survive Slow Growth: Part 1 with Larry Summers, Zachary Karabell, and Anne Kreuger

  With China slumping, energy prices collapsing, and nervous consumers sitting on their hands, growth has ground to a halt almost everywhere, and economists, investors, and ordinary citizens are starting to confront a grim new reality: the world is stuck in the slow lane...

  
• 01.25.2016

  Inequality: Part 2 What Brazil Gets Right, A New Kind of Taxes, and What Trump and Sanders Have To Offer

  Around the world, incomes and wealth for the majority have stagnated even as they have skyrocketed for those at the top. In part two of Foreign Affairs' coverage on inequality, we explore what works and what doesn’t, from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia,...

  
• 01.11.2016

  Inequality: Part 1 with Gideon Rose, Allison Schrager, and Ronald Inglehart

  In part one of a two-part series on inequality, we delve into the rise of economic inequality, when and why it matters, and what to do about it. Featuring Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, Allison Schrager, New York–based economist and writer, and...

  
• 12.21.2015

  The Best of 2015: Gender Politics Around the the World

  Part II of a two-part series highlighting the best Foreign Affairs Unedited podcasts of 2015, we revisit some of our favorite conversations on women and gender from around the world. Featuring interviews with Ira Trivedi on bride trafficking in India, Nadia Hashimi...

  
• 11.23.2015

  The New Middle East: Part II with Gideon Rose, Dan Byman, Cyrus Amir-Mokri, and Hamid Biglari

  Part II of a two part series on the new Middle East—Gideon Rose, Dan Byman, Cyrus Amir-Mokri, and Hamid Biglari chime in on the United States’ response to ISIS after the Paris attacks, counterterrorism in the Middle East, and Iran’s...

  
• 11.09.2015

  The New Middle East: Part I with Denise Natali, Natan Sachs, and Jared Cohen

  In this edition of Foreign Affairs Unedited, part one of a two part series on the new Middle East, Denise Natali, Natan Sachs, and Jared Cohen discuss who can replace the United States in the region, Israel’s strategy, and how to combat...

  
• 10.26.2015

  Steve Hindy on Ancient and Modern Beer Brewing

  Steve Hindy, co-founder and chairman of Brooklyn Brewery, talks about his Foreign Affairs article "Ancient Ales," as well as the future of craft brewing around the world.

  
• 10.12.2015

  The Global Refugee Crisis: From Economics to Climate Change

  A panel of Foreign Affairs experts, Sebastian Mallaby, Péter Krekó, Tara Zahra, Sebastian Elischer, and Patrick Sykes, discuss the issues surrounding the ongoing global refugee crisis.

  
• 10.05.2015

  Neri Zilber on Abbas, Palestine, and Intifada

  Neri Zilber, adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks with Sam Winter-Levy, Assistant Editor, about Abbas, the Palestinian authority and the possibility of a third intifada.

  
• 09.14.2015

  Laurie Garrett on The Ebola Crisis

  Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses Ebola and what to do to prevent it from happening again with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.

  
• 08.31.2015

  Kathleen McNamara on Greece and the EU

  Kathleen McNamara, author of the recent book “The Politics of Everyday Europe” discusses who to blame for the Greek crisis and the future of the EU with Foreign Affairs Staff Editor Nikita Lalwani. 

  
• 08.24.2015

  Antonio Patriota on Brazil and the Global Order

  Antonio Patriota, Brazil's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, discusses Brazil’s role in the global order with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.

  
• 08.17.2015

  Benjamin Duerr on The Acquittal of Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui

  Benjamin Duerr, a correspondent covering war crimes issues and the courts in The Hague, discusses the acquittal of Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O’Connor.

  
• 08.10.2015

  Nisid Hajari on Indian Partition

  Nisid Hajari, author of Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition, discusses Indian partition with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.

  
• 08.03.2015

  Gregory Feifer on Putin's Russia

  Gregory Feifer, author of "Russians: The People Behind the Power," discusses Russia and Vladimir Putin with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O’Connor.

  
• 07.27.2015

  David Miliband on Humanitarian Aid

  David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, discusses humanitarian aid around the world with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose. Read the article: “Improving Humanitarian Aid.”

  
• 07.20.2015

  John McArthur on Ending Hunger

  John McArthur discusses strategies to end world hunger and his recent article, "The Hunger Game,” with Foreign Affairs Staff Editor Nikita Lalwani.

  
• 07.13.2015

  Andy Nathan on China's Future

  Andy Nathan, professor of Political Science at Columbia University, discusses the future of China with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.  

  
• 07.06.2015

  Chris Walsh on the History of Cowardice

  Author Chris Walsh discusses the history of cowardice and his recent article, "The Coward’s Guide to History," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Managing Editor Katie Allawala.

  
• 06.29.2015

  Ian Bremmer on America's Role in the World

  Author Ian Bremmer discusses America’s role in the world, the Obama administration's record, and his new book SuperPower, with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.

  
• 06.22.2015

  Christine Balling on Colombia’s Minister of Defense

  Author Christine Balling discusses Colombia’s minister of defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno, with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao. Read the article at ForeignAffairs.com.

  
• 06.15.2015

  Harris Irfan on Islamic Finance

  Author Harris Irfan discusses Islamic finance and conscious capitalism with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O'Connor.  An excerpt of his book was recently featured on ForeignAffairs.com.

  
• 06.08.2015

  Adrienne Mayor on the Warrior Women of the Ancient World

  "Ancient historians and classical scholars have long argued that Amazons were purely imaginary ... we now have enough evidence, archaeological and otherwise, to call that into question," says Adrienne Mayor, research scholar at Stanford University.  Mayor recently sat down  with Foreign Affairs Deputy Managing Editor Katie Allawala to discuss...

  
• 06.01.2015

  Amrita Narlikar on Doha, the WTO, and the Politics of Poverty

  Author Amrita Narlikar discusses Doha, the WTO, and her recent article "The Power of the Powerless," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao.

  
• 05.25.2015

  Emma Sky on General Odierno and Iraqi Politics

  Author and Middle East expert, Emma Sky, discusses Iraqi politics and her path to becoming the political advisor to U.S. General Ray Odierno in Iraq with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.

  
• 05.18.2015

  David Schenker on Jordanian Politics

  In this edition of Foreign Affairs Unedited, author David Schenker discusses Jordanian politics and his recent article "In Jordan, Problems and Politics are Local," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao.  Visit www.ForeignAffairs.com to read the article.

  
• 05.11.2015

  James Cuno on Museums: The Case Against Repatriating Museum Artifacts

  "In the battle over cultural heritage, repatriation claims based strictly on national origin are more than just denials of cultural exchange: they are also arguments against the promise of encyclopedic museums," writes James Cuno in his Nov/Dec 2014 article in...

  
• 05.04.2015

  Matthew Johnson on the British election

  In this edition of Foreign Affairs Unedited, author Matthew Johnson discusses the British election and his recent article "Empire at Sunset," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O'Connor.

  
• 04.27.2015

  Nadia Hashimi on Bacha Posh

  Foreign Affairs author Nadia Hashimi discusses the tradition of Bacha Posh and her recent article "Afghanistan's Female Sons,"with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao.

  
• 04.20.2015

  Jennifer Williams on Al Qaeda's Letters

  Foreign Affairs author Jennifer Williams discusses al Qaeda's letters and her recent article "The Bureaucracy of Terror,"with Foreign Affairs Deputy Managing Editor Katie Allawala.

  
• 04.13.2015

  Jerry Brito on Bitcoin

  The Coin Center's Jerry Brito sits down with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose to discuss Bitcoin, one of the "currencies of the future."

  
• 04.06.2015

  Kwame Anthony Appiah on Race in the Modern World

  "We live in a world now in which cross-group solidarities are being generated in ways that would've astonished our predecessors." Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses his recent article "Race in the Modern World" with Foreign Affairs Editor...

  
• 03.30.2015

  Brian Warshay on Upgrading the Grid

  The U.S. electrical grid has hardly changed since the 1880s, and its reliability, effectiveness, and affordability are increasingly being brought into question. To prevent disaster, regulators must abandon outdated electrical architecture and redesign the grid. Bloomberg Analyst Brian Warshay discusses...

  
• 03.23.2015

  R. Daniel Kelemen on Fixing Europe

  Despite all the grim predictions, the European Union is not on the verge of collapse. Quite the contrary: if European leaders act with resolve and persistence, the union could experience a rebirth. Professor R. Daniel Kelemen discusses his recent article...

  
• 03.16.2015

  Mariana Mazzucato on Government and Innovation

  Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of the Economics of Innovation and author of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths speaks with Foreign Affairs editor Kathryn Allawala on the phone to discuss how and why government should take an active role in funding innovation--and what...

  
• 03.09.2015

  Stephen Kotkin on Putin's Rise

  Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vaunted “stability” has turned into spoliation. The methods he used to fix the corrupt, dysfunctional post-Soviet state have produced yet another corrupt, dysfunctional state—and unfortunately, there is no end to it in sight. Princeton University Professor...

  
• 03.02.2015

  Syria's President Speaks: Behind the Scenes With Jonathan Tepperman

  The civil war in Syria will soon enter its fifth year, with no end in sight. On January 20, Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to discuss the conflict in an exclusive interview.

  
• 02.23.2015

  Richard Haass on Northern Ireland

  Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Haass had recently chaired talks in Northern Ireland that focused on disputes over flags, parades, and the past. Original video interviewed published on January 29,...

  
• 02.17.2015

  Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson on the Arctic Scramble

  It's "paradoxical" for the United States "to be so engaged with Russia and Ukraine, and be very passive in the Arctic," says Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president of Iceland. And with Washington set to chair the Arctic Council beginning in 2015,...

  
• 02.09.2015

  Foreign Affairs Focus: Max Boot on Small Wars

  Washington simply doesn’t have the luxury of simply avoiding long wars against brutal insurgencies. Instead, it needs to figure out how to fight them better, argues Max Boot, Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the November/December edition of Foreign Affairs.Boot recently...

  
• 02.02.2015

  Foreign Affairs Focus on Books: Ananya Vajpeyi on Hindu Nationalism

  Ananya Vajpeyi sits down with Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs. They discuss the rise of India's religious right, the campaign to suppress the work of Hinduism scholar Wendy Doniger, and what the election of Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, will...

  
• 01.28.2015

  Foreign Affairs Focus: Richard Betts on U.S. Strategy

  After more than a decade at war, what has Washington learned? Gideon Rose sits down with Richard Betts, Columbia University's Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, to discuss. For more, read Betts' recent article in the November/December 2014 edition of Foreign Affairs available...

  
• 01.20.2015

  Foreign Affairs Focus: Fred Krupp on Fracking and the Environment

  The shale revolution carries real environmental dangers, especially the release of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas. It still has the potential to benefit the environment as well as the economy, but only if industry and government work together to...

  
• 01.12.2015

  Foreign Affairs Focus: Carla Hills on NAFTA at 20

  In the 20 years since it entered into force, the North American Free Trade Agreement has been both lauded and attacked. Few, however, question the treaty's lasting impact on the economies of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Gideon Rose,...

  
• 01.05.2015

  Foreign Affairs Focus: Jack Devine on Pinochet's Coup

  The 1973 coup in Chile is often included in indictments of U.S. covert action during the Cold War. But Jack Devine, a former CIA operations officer who was stationed in Chile at the time, argues in the July/August 2014 issue that the...

  
• 12.29.2014

  Foreign Affairs Focus on Books: Thomas Piketty on Economic Inequality

  "Every now and then, the field of economics produces an important book; this is one of them," writes Tyler Cowen in his Foreign Affairs review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century. "Piketty’s tome will put capitalist wealth back at the center of public...

  
• 12.22.2014

  Foreign Affairs Focus on Books: Anand Gopal on Afghanistan and Iraq

  Anand Gopal, a former Afghanistan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, sits down with Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs. Gopal, whose latest book was reviewed in the November/December 2014 issue, talks about interviewing Taliban commanders, the prospects for Afghanistan's new leadership, and why...

  
• 12.16.2014

  What's Inside the New Issue: January/February 2015

  Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, previews the new issue. Inside, you’ll find a special package on entrepreneurship including interviews with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sprint’s Marcelo Claure, CyPhy Works’ Helen Greiner, Celtel founder Mo Ibrahim, venture capitalist Michael Moritz, and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom.

  
• 12.16.2014

  Foreign Affairs Focus: Elizabeth Economy on China's President

  Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Elizabeth Economy, C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.  Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global...