Episodes
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
The State of Transatlantic Relations, With Sophia Besch
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
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
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
The AUKUS Pact, With Michael Fullilove
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 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)
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
The Russia Challenge, With Fiona Hill
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
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)
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Kissinger‘s Middle East Diplomacy, With Martin S. Indyk
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 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.
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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)