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
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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September 19, 2025 • 49 mins
The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development this year left countries scrambling, with many analysts going as far as calling the shutdown inhumane. But values were never the real driver of the global development agenda, says FP columnist Adam Tooze—it was actually about power. Now that the United States has stepped back, can China fill the void? Does it want to? Tooze sits down with host Ravi Agrawal to discuss ...
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September 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin has a plan for the U.S. Democratic Party. She’s promoting what she calls a “war plan” to revive the middle class as a way for her party to not only challenge President Donald Trump—and win the future for America. She joins host Ravi Agrawal to game out how to put her vision into action.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi on the Russian drones fired into Polish airspace earlier this week.
Council on Foreign Re...
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September 5, 2025 • 46 mins
FP columnist Emma Ashford makes the case that we’re entering a post-unipolar world—that countries can sense that the United States is no longer an unchallenged superpower. If that’s the case, how should Washington adapt its foreign policy?
Ashford sits down with host Ravi Agrawal to discuss her new book, First Among Equals: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World.
Plus, One Thing from Ravi on South Korea’s latest soft pow...
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September 3, 2025 • 41 mins
The relationship between the world’s two largest democracies—India and the United States—could be in trouble. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warmly embraced his Russian and Chinese counterparts at a summit this week, shortly after the Trump administration pushed ahead with sky-high tariffs on Indian exports. Is New Delhi considering a shift in its geopolitical posture?
Former Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao sits down w...
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August 28, 2025 • 38 mins
We talk a lot about Iran on this show, but we don’t often hear from Iranian leaders. I wanted to change that this week—and so I asked Mohammad Javad Zarif to come on the program. Zarif played a major role in crafting Iranian foreign policy over the last 15 years, as foreign minister from 2013 to 2021 and as the lead negotiator of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. While Americans perceived him as the diplomatic face of Iran, a...
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August 25, 2025 • 44 mins
The United States and China are constantly looking for a leg up in their rivalry for geopolitical primacy. But what if the real advantage lies in adopting a bit of the other’s culture? A new book makes the case that while China has become an engineering state obsessed with building, the United States has become a lawyerly society focused on procedures and blocking. Can they learn from each other? Author and scholar Dan Wang sits do...
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August 19, 2025 • 42 mins
The Trump-Putin summit on Friday, followed by Monday’s unprecedented White House meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and seven other European leaders, has left analysts wondering whether recent diplomacy will result in an end to hostilities—or if it’s all just pageantry. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Sergey Radchenko sit down with Ravi Agrawal to debrief these two high-level meetings.
Kendall-Taylor is a former CIA analyst and a...
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August 15, 2025 • 33 mins
European leaders, having agreed to spending 5 percent of their GDP on defense, now must decide where that money goes. What factors should they consider to make sure the money leads to the continent’s growth and a cutting-edge defense industrial base? Ravi Agrawal sits down with Jared Cohen, the president of global affairs at Goldman Sachs, to discuss.
Note: This discussion is part of a series of episodes brought to you by the Gold...
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August 13, 2025 • 43 mins
Harvard University professor and economist Dani Rodrik first questioned in the late 1990s whether globalization had gone too far. He joins FP Live to share his take on the Trump administration’s tariffs and how to navigate a historically turbulent moment in global trade.
Jamieson Greer: Trump’s Trade Representative: Why We Remade the Global Order
Dani Rodrik: Where Is the Global Resistance to Trump?
Ravi Agrawal: How to Navigate...
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August 8, 2025 • 49 mins
As images of starvation in Gaza continue to circulate online, unequivocal support for Israel may be waning in the West, with Britain, Canada, and France moving to formally recognize Palestine in recent weeks. How might this shift the status quo in the region? Daniel Levy, former Israeli peace negotiator and co-founder of J Street, sits down with Ravi Agrawal to discuss.
Stephen A. Cook: Why Recognizing Palestine Is Meaningless or ...
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August 1, 2025 • 40 mins
From Labubus and Chinese soft power to U.S. President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on Ukraine, join host Ravi Agrawal for another FP Live Ask-Me-Anything.
Ravi Agrawal: Trump is Ushering In a More Transactional World
Henry Tugendhat and Janes Palmer: China Isn’t Ready to Replace USAID
Howard W. French: The U.S. Can No Longer Stave Off Competition From China
Alexandra Sharp: Trump Announces a 25 Percent Tariff on India
Rishi Iy...
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July 30, 2025 • 42 mins
Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, joins FP Live to assess the Trump administration’s shifting policies on Ukraine and how that could impact the ongoing war. McFaul is currently a professor at Stanford University and writes the McFaul’s World newsletter.
Michael Hirsch: The Enduring Mystery of Trump’s Relationship with Russia
Luke Coffey: Trump’s Ukraine Shift Sends the Right Signal to Putin
Christian Caryl: Dem...
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July 25, 2025 • 46 mins
The U.S. dollar has declined by more than 10 percent this year. Is the fall just a normal fluctuation, or is it a sign of something much more worrying? How seriously should we take threats to the dollar’s dominance as the world’s reserve currency? Economist Kenneth Rogoff shares more. Rogoff is a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and the author of Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulen...
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July 18, 2025 • 38 mins
U.S. foreign-policy coverage often focuses on the Middle East, China, or Europe. So, what is the view from what is sometimes called the world’s biggest invisible country? Indonesia, the world’s fourth-most populated country and third-biggest democracy, gets surprisingly little attention. How is Jakarta navigating a changing world? Former Indonesian Vice Foreign Minister Dino Patti Djalal joins FP Live.
Derek Grossman: Why Rubio’s...
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July 10, 2025 • 32 mins
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sits down with Ravi Agrawal to debrief this week’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House. Friedman is also the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem, among other books.
Thomas L. Friedman: How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again
Thomas L. Friedman: If This Mideast War Is Over, Get Ready for Some Inte...
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