Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading fore...
Top humanitarian aid official and longtime diplomat Samantha Power discusses lessons learned from her post at USAID and what she’d like to share with the next administration in this bonus episode.
This conversation was taped before the passage of last week's Continuing Resolution.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Walter Kerr and Amanda Arch: U.S. Foreign Aid Is Broken but Fixable
Agathe Demarais: Aid Is the Next Battleground Between China and the West
Laura Thornton: How a Second Trump Term Will Redefine Foreign Aid
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The Future of Clean Energy
The incoming Trump administration is expected to gut a key piece of President Biden’s climate legacy: the Inflation Reduction Act. How will rolling this law back shape energy policy in the future? And what does this mean for the Paris Climate Accords? The Biden administration’s top climate diplomat, John Podesta, joins FP Live to discuss.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Transcript: Will Trump Dismantle Biden’s Clean Energy Initiative
Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze: The Complicated Legacy of Biden’s Climate Legislation
Tim Hirschel-Burns: On Climate, Paying Now Is Cheaper Than Paying Later
Jason Bordoff and David R. Hill: The Key to a Successful Trump Energy Agenda Is Electricity
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Chip Wars in a Trump 2.0 World
Inside a nontraditional war: the chip wars. Can Trump’s tariffs stop China’s efforts to catch up on semiconductor production? How will the AI boom change the game? The leading expert on semiconductor competition, Chris Miller, joins FP Live to discuss the state of the tech race and the impact of a second Trump administration.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Rishi Iyengar: Everyone Wants a Chip Factory
Chris Miller: Biden Opens Sneaky New Front in Trade War Against China
Vivek Chilukuri: America Needs Clear Standards for China Tech Decoupling
Chris Miller in the Financial Times: The global chip war could turn into a cloud war
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Syria’s Crisis and the Israel-Hezbollah Cease-Fire
For most Middle East watchers, the big news last week was that after nearly 14 months of war, Israel and Hezbollah signed a cease-fire agreement. But before the ink on that agreement was dry, another big shift was afoot: Rebel groups in Syria took control of the country’s second-largest city, Aleppo, in less than four days of battle. Middle East expert Fawaz Gerges joins FP Live to discuss the regional and global implications.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Jeremy Hodge and Hussein Nasser: A Weak Assad Benefits Turkey—and Is a Headache for Trump
Hamidreza Azizi and Nicole Grajewski: What the Fall of Aleppo Means for Russia
The Guardian: One year on from 7 October, our panel considers: what next for the Middle East?
Nathan J. Robinson: Biden Didn’t Really Try to End the War in Gaza
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What’s Wrong With Our Environmental Politics?
The global target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius looks increasingly unlikely. What approaches to solving the climate crisis can best provide solutions? FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi joins FP Live to debut his new book: Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn’t Working, which compares the policies of Germany and the United States. He shares what he has learned with Ravi Agrawal.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze: Is Climate Activism Working?
Christina Lu: COP29 Kicks Off Under Trump’s Shadow
Cameron Abadi: Hard Truths Come for Germany’s Climate Prophet
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Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading foreign-policy thinkers and practitioners to analyze a key issue in global politics, from the U.S.-China relationship to conflict and diplomacy. FP Live is your weekly fix for smart thinking about the world.
Foreign Policy magazine subscribers can watch these interviews live and submit questions and suggestions by going to https://foreignpolicy.com/live/.
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