Foreign Policy Live
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/.
Episodes
January 8, 2026 • 42 mins
Comfort Ero joins FP Live for her annual analysis of the 10 conflicts to watch this year.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing on the stunning capture of Nicolás Maduro and the future of Venezuela.
Ravi Agrawal: 5 Unanswered Questions About Trump’s Venezuela Plan
Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood: 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2026
Casey Michel: Annexing Greenland Would Be a Strategic Catastrophe
Christopher Sabatini: Trump Has No Real Plan for Ven...
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January 1, 2026 • 29 mins
We begin 2026 with a look ahead. New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker joins host Ravi Agrawal to share his take on what’s to come in the new year.
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December 22, 2025 • 35 mins
New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker sits down with Ravi Agrawal for a 2025 review. What have we learned from the first year of the Trump administration’s second term? And how have the White House’s foreign-policy choices in particular differed from previous presidencies?
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December 18, 2025 • 42 mins
Tensions continue to rise off the coast of Venezuela as U.S. President Donald Trump orders a blockade on sanctioned ships to and from the country. James Story served as the U.S. ambassador in Caracas under both the Trump and Biden administrations, and he shares his predictions on what might happen next.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing on India, Pakistan, and 2025’s great U.S. policy pivot.
Keith Johnson: Trump’s Venezuela Fixation Is Not...
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December 12, 2025 • 35 mins
Is the growth of sovereign wealth funds, especially in the Middle East, transforming geopolitics? Jared Cohen, co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute, sat down with FP’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss why sovereign funds are so pivotal today.
Note: This discussion is part of a series of episodes brought to you by the Goldman Sachs Global Institute.
Jared Cohen and George Lee: The New Wealth of Nations
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December 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits down with Ravi Agrawal in front of a live audience at the annual Doha Forum in Doha, Qatar. The two discussed the Trump administration’s just-released National Security Strategy, the impacts of U.S. foreign policy around the world, women’s rights, how Democrats can revive their fortunes, and also a controversy over remarks Clinton recently made about why young Americans are shifting th...
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December 3, 2025 • 43 mins
Name a consistent throughline in the Trump administration’s foreign policy. The answer could very well be the global scramble for critical minerals. What are they and why are they so important? Why is China so far ahead and how can the United States catch up? Mining expert Gracelin Baskaran sits down with host Ravi Agrawal to discuss.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing on Trump’s attacks on boats off the coast of Venezuela.
Ravi Agrawal: The ...
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November 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Despite headlines suggesting otherwise, this week’s guest says women’s rights around the world are making real gains. Lyric Thompson, the founder and CEO of the Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative, sits down with host Ravi Agrawal to share more.
Transcript: The Good News on Women’s Rights
Lyric Thompson: Women’s Rights Are Winning
Rebecca Turkington and Saskia Brechenmacher: Trump Erases Women From Foreign Policy
Hawon Jung:...
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November 26, 2025 • 40 mins
It’s time for another Ask-Me-Anything edition of FP Live. Executive Producer Dana Sherne puts your questions to host Ravi Agrawal.
Alexandra Sharp: Ramaphosa Capitalizes on Trump’s Absence at G-20 Summit
Christian Caryl: Don’t Call This a ‘Peace Plan’
Rachel Oswald and John Haltiwanger: Trump’s Ukraine Peace Effort Devolves Into Chaos Over Conflicting Stories
Ryan C. Berg: Toppling Maduro Without Boots on the Ground
James Palm...
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November 21, 2025 • 42 mins
Climate summits such as the ongoing COP30 conference can often seem like a place where countries agree to disagree and little gets done. But Bill McKibben says there’s one key reason for hope: the sun. New advances in panels and battery technology mean solar power will soon provide a growing share of our electricity consumption.
McKibbon is the author of the new book Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh C...
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November 14, 2025 • 44 mins
As the United States points its biggest warship at Venezuela, what is the White House trying to achieve in Caracas? How does it fit into the Trump administration’s broader Latin America policy? And how is the region responding? Host Ravi Agrawal sits down with scholar Oliver Stuenkel for answers.
Stuenkel is a leading Latin America scholar and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Plus Ravi’s One Thing ...
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November 4, 2025 • 38 mins
China analyst and former policymaker Elizabeth Economy sits down with Ravi Agrawal to unpack the meeting that took place last week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. What was agreed to? What does it mean for the broader trajectory of the world’s most important bilateral relationship?
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on Trump threatening military action in Nigeria.
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún: Why Is Trump Suddenly Tal...
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October 30, 2025 • 42 mins
Is the AI boom a bubble? What happens if it pops? Economist Jared Bernstein joined FP Live to sound the alarm on the growth and investment in the AI sector.
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the first Trump-Xi meeting in six years.
James Palmer: Trump and Xi Step Back From the Brink—for Now
Rishi Iyengar, Christina Lu, and Keith Johnson: What Trump and Xi Did—and Didn’t—Agree To
Sahil Shah: Trump’s Vagueness Over Nuclear Testing Could...
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October 24, 2025 • 36 mins
How can history help make sense of U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policy? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Greg Grandin shares how Trump’s imperialist impulses may be inspired by the country’s Founding Fathers, and that he “rummages around the trash bag of history to find what’s useful at any given moment.”
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the recent U.S. sanctions on Russian oil companies.
Keith Johnson: Will Trump’s ...
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October 17, 2025 • 43 mins
With the cease-fire more than a week old, Palestinians now turn to what comes next: rebuilding and governing. Former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organization Diana Buttu sits down with Ravi Agrawal to share her perspective.
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the Trump administration’s moves on Venezuela.
Diana Buttu: A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it.
Omar H. Rahman: Can Palestin...
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October 9, 2025 • 47 mins
43 percent of voters under 30 supported U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, a 7 percent jump in support from both the 2016 and 2020 elections. What’s underpinning this rightward shift among young voters? Conservative commentator and journalist Emily Jashinsky shares her take.
Plus, Ravi’s One Thing on the Israel-Hamas deal over hostages and an end to hostilities.
Megan DuBois: The Shape-Shifting MAGA Hat
Adrian Kar...
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October 7, 2025 • 39 mins
Tuesday marks two years since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Since then, Israel has decimated Gaza in what many independent organizations are calling a genocide and attacked several countries in the region. How have all of these events impacted the world? FP columnist Stephen M. Walt sits down with Ravi Agrawal to share his take.
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Stephen ...
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October 3, 2025 • 33 mins
With increased polarization and ongoing budgetary disputes, the U.S. government does not seem to be acting in the way that the American forefathers intended. Host Ravi Agrawal brings on historian Jill Lepore to share more. Lepore is a professor at Harvard University and the author of We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi on the U.S. government shutdown.
Rishi Iyengar: How a U.S. Government S...
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September 26, 2025 • 25 mins
Qatar often presents itself as a neutral mediator in the world’s trickiest problems, but on Sept. 9, its sovereignty was violated as Israel launched a strike to assassinate top Hamas leaders in Doha. Will Qatar change its strategy? No, explains Majed al-Ansari, the spokesperson of the country’s Foreign Ministry, at a live event with host Ravi Agrawal along the sidelines of the 80th U.N. General Assembly.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi...
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September 24, 2025 • 41 mins
How is Europe navigating the Trump administration and a troubling moment in the trans-Atlantic relationship? FP Live host Ravi Agrawal sits down with Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s top diplomat, on the sidelines of the United Nations’ annual meetings to discuss relations with Washington, Russia’s war in Ukraine, recognizing Palestine, and dealing with China.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi on a spate of countries recognizing Palesti...
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