Foreign Policy recommends: Throughline 

This week on FP Playlist, we feature NPR’s history podcast, Throughline. 

In this episode, we explore the history of Ukraine’s national identity. The episode argues that to understand the current conflict, you have to understand how Ukraine's national identity formed over the course of centuries.

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Foreign Policy recommends: Today, Explained 

This week on FP Playlist, we feature Today, Explained by Vox. 

In this episode, explore the world of cobalt mining — and the issues that create a resource curse in the Congo.

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Foreign Policy recommends: Season 3 of Course Correction

This week on FP Playlist, we feature the third season of Course Correction from Doha Debates, produced by Foreign Policy Studios. Unlike other seasons, each of the six episodes will look at a different point in the journey to becoming — and living — as a refugee.

In this first episode, they discuss the first part of being a refugee: the displacement and its immediate aftermath. Hear from experts on the causes of displacement and the resources available to refugees once they believe their homes are no longer safe.

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Foreign Policy recommends: FP Live 

This week on FP Playlist, we continue our discussion of the on-going crisis in Ukraine — and what the foremost policy experts are saying — by featuring this FP Live event. 

On this episode, FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal sat down with Eurasia Group President and founder Ian Bremmer to cover the Western response to the war in Ukraine, China’s role in the conflict, and the geopolitical ripple effects from the last few weeks.

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Foreign Policy recommends: FP Live 

This week on FP Playlist, we continue our coverage of the on-going crisis in Ukraine — and what policy experts and thinkers are saying about it — by featuring this FP Live event.

On this episode, Foreign Policy editor in chief Ravi Agrawal sat down with the former US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder. After almost three weeks of fighting, the two discussed the current response from the West, avoiding nuclear consequences, and just how far Putin is willing to go.

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Foreign Policy recommends: The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women Season 2

To ring in International Women’s Day, FP Playlist features the second season of FP’s own show — The Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women. In this episode, listen as Melinda Gates and Nobel Prize-winning economist Ester Duflo speak with host Reena Ninan about what women’s economic empowerment looks like in a post-COVID world — and how to achieve it. 

HERO host Reena Nina sat down with FP Playlist guest host and Deputy Editor Jenn Williams to discuss the latest season — and her own entrepreneurial efforts in the pandemic. 

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Foreign Policy recommends: The Experiment 

This week on FP Playlist, we feature an episode from The Atlantic’s show The Experiment, a series that explores America in all its complexities and contradictions. The episode details one Uyghur teen who comes of age in America, after leaving China. 

The Experiment host, Julia Longoria, sat down with FP Playlist to discuss how the show began and how to create episodes halfway across the world.

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Foreign Policy recommends: FP Live on the Crisis in Ukraine 

This week on FP Playlist, we continue our extra coverage on the on-going crisis in Ukraine — and what policy experts and thinkers are saying about it — by featuring our FP Live panels.

In this FP Live, Foreign Policy editor in chief Ravi Agrawal sat down with panelists CEO of New America Anne Marie Slaughter, former intelligence official Angela Stent, and President of the International Rescue Committee David Miliband. After Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, the panelists discussed next steps in the conflict — and the consequences for the international community.

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Foreign Policy recommends: Outside/In 

This week on FP Playlist, we feature an episode from New Hampshire Public Radio’s show Outside/In, a series that explores how humans and the environment come together and interact. The episode details the decades-long effort to create the Great Himalayan National Park. 

Outside/In’s interim host, Justine Paradise, sat down with FP Playlist to discuss how the show began and how to create episodes halfway across the world. 

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Foreign Policy recommends: FP Live from Kyiv

This week on FP Playlist, we feature an FP Live event with Foreign Policy editor in chief Ravi Agrawal, national security reporter Amy Mackinnon and former Russia-Eurasia intelligence officer Andrea Kendall-Taylor. The episode discusses whether the West has staved off war and what it would take to keep the peace.

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