The President’s Inbox

The Future of U.S. Foreign Policy, With Richard Haass

Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay upon completing two decades leading CFR to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the United States.

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

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

 

Richard Haass, Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order

 

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

 

Richard Haass, The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in Any Unruly Organization

 

Richard Haass, “The Dangerous Decade: A Foreign Policy for a World in Crisis,” Foreign Affairs

 

Richard Haass, The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course

 

Richard Haass, The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War

 

Richard Haass, The World: A Brief Introduction

 

Richard Haass, War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars

 

Michael Mandelbaum, “Foreign Policy as Social Work,” Foreign Affairs

 

Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/future-us-foreign-policy-richard-haass 

The Future of U.S.-Taiwan Relations, With Susan M. Gordon and Michael G. Mullen

Susan M. Gordon, former principal deputy director of National Intelligence, and Admiral Michael G. Mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the nature and extent of U.S. support for Taiwan in the face of growing Chinese power.   

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Council on Foreign Relations, U.S.-Taiwan Relations in a New Era: Responding to a More Assertive China, 2023

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/future-us-taiwan-relations-susan-m-gordon-and-michael-g-mullen 

The U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis, With Nora Bensahel

Nora Bensahel, a visiting professor of strategic studies and senior fellow of the Merrill Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the challenges the U.S. armed services are having in attracting new recruits and what can be done about it. 

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

David Barno and Nora Bensahel, “Addressing the U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis,” War on the Rocks

 

David Barno and Nora Bensahel,  Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/us-military-recruiting-crisis-nora-bensahel 

Erdoğan’s Victory, 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 what the reelection of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan means for U.S.-Turkey relations and the future of NATO. 

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Sinan Ciddi and Steven A. Cook, “Why Turkey Experts Got the Election All Wrong,” Foreign Policy

 

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

 

Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/erdogans-victory-steven-cook 

The Fentanyl Epidemic, With Vanda Felbab-Brown

 Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss why the United States is struggling to stop the flood of fentanyl entering the country. 

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Vanda Felbab-Brown, “Why America Is Struggling to Stop the Fentanyl Epidemic,” Foreign Affairs

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/fentanyl-epidemic-vanda-felbab-brown 

Pakistan in Crisis, With Sadanand Dhume

Sadanand Dhume, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a South Asia columnist for the Wall Street Journal, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the political, economic, and climate crises roiling Pakistan.

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Sadanand Dhume, “Imran Khan’s Arrest, the Army and Pakistan’s Perennial Crisis,” Wall Street Journal

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/pakistan-crisis-sadanand-dhume 

U.S.-India Relations, With Ashley J. Tellis

Ashley J. Tellis, the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the challenges inherent in the evolving relationship between the United States and India.

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Ashley J. Tellis, “America’s Bad Bet on India,” Foreign Affairs

 

Ashley J. Tellis, Striking Asymmetries: Nuclear Transitions in Southern Asia

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/us-india-relations-ashley-j-tellis

U.S. Strategy in Ukraine, With Charles Kupchan

Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at CFR and a professor of international affairs at Georgetown University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the status of the war in Ukraine and whether it is time for the United States and the West to rethink their strategy.

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, “The West Holds Firm,” Foreign Affairs

 

Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Lindsay, “Why Putin Underestimated the West,” Foreign Affairs

 

Richard Haass and Charles Kupchan, “The West Needs a New Strategy in Ukraine,” Foreign Affairs

 

Charles Kupchan, Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself From the World

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/us-strategy-ukraine-charles-kupchan

 

The Biden-Yoon Summit, With Scott Snyder

Scott Snyder, a senior fellow for Korea studies and the director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s recent state visit with U.S. President Joe Biden and its implications for the U.S.-South Korean alliance. 

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Soyoung Kim, Ju-min Park, and Hyonhee Shin, “Exclusive: South Korea's Yoon Opens Door for Possible Military Aid to Ukraine,” Reuters

 

Don McLean, “American Pie”

 

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

 

Scott Snyder, The United States-South Korea Alliance: Why It Might Fail and Why It Must Not (forthcoming, November 2023)

 

“South Korean President Yoon sings 'American Pie',” Associated Press

 

The Animals, “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place”

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/biden-yoon-summit-scott-snyder

Critical Minerals and China, With Morgan Bazilian

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute and a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss why critical minerals have emerged as a major issue in the U.S.-China geopolitical competition.

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

Morgan D. Bazilian and Gregory Brew, “The Missing Minerals: To Shift to Clean Energy, America Must Rethink Supply Chains,” Foreign Affairs

 

Keith Bradsher, “Why China Could Dominate the Next Big Advance in Batteries,” New York Times

 

Geological Survey 2022 Final List of Critical Minerals [PDF], U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/critical-minerals-and-china-morgan-bazilian