The President’s Inbox

Biden’s America First Economic Policy, With Edward Alden

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, 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

The War in Ukraine, With Liana Fix and Michael Kimmage

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

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War, With Sebastian Mallaby

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

 

TPI Replay: The North Korea Challenge, With Scott A. Snyder

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 

 

2022 U.S. Midterm Elections, With Daniel Silverberg and Christopher Tuttle

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, “The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene,” The New York Times Magazine

What Climate Change Means for the Sahel, With Beza Tesfaye

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

Protests in Iran, With Suzanne Maloney

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 

Ideology in U.S. Foreign Policy, With Christopher Nichols, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and Jay Sexton

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, Biden-Harris Administration's National Security Strategy: October 2022

U.S.-Saudi Relations, With Steven A. Cook

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

The Globalization Myth, With Shannon K. O’Neil

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

 

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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.”