The President’s Inbox

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

TPI Replay: 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. 

 

This episode originally aired on November 1, 2022.

 

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  

 

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/ideology-us-foreign-policy-christopher-nichols-emily-conroy-krutz-and-jay-sexton

 

 

North Korea’s Nuclear Program, With Jenny Town

Jenny Town, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center and the director of Stimson’s 38 North program, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss North Korea’s nuclear advances and their consequences for the security situation in Northeast Asia.

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/north-koreas-nuclear-program-jenny-town

The U.N. High Seas Treaty, With Esther Brimmer

Esther Brimmer, The James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance at The Council on Foreign Relations, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss a recent multilateral agreement reached at the United Nations to protect biodiversity in the world’s oceans.

 

Mentioned on the Podcast

 

“What’s Cracking in The Arctic,” Why It Matters

 

UN General Assembly, Draft Agreement Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction [PDF]

 

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/the-un-high-seas-treaty-with-esther-brimmer