Listen to Stewart Patrick's post-election interview with Tim Farley on "The Morning Briefing," a daily program of the Syrius XM President of the United States (POTUS) Channel. The morning after the United States reelects President Barack Obama, Patrick analyzes the major challenges that the Obama administration must address—including cooperating with Israeli partners to discourage a preventive strike and bolstering support for the rebels in Syria to stop the escalating atrocities against civilians. Follow the Morning Brief on Twitter @MorningBriefing or on Facebook.

On Conversations With History, Patrick discusses the criteria for defining fragile states and for creating benchmarks for evaluating whether they pose national security threats with reference to terrorism proliferation, criminal activity, energy insecurity and infectious disease. He argues that in most cases the links are tenuous and the focus on one category obscures the challenges these states actually pose for the U.S. and the community of nations. He proposes that the United States focus on an early warning system that anticipates problem areas, identify local environments that shape harmful outcomes, engage in multilateral solutions, and de-emphasize the over reliance on military solutions.

Stewart Patrick challenges the assumption in U.S. foreign policy that weak and failing states are universally threatening to global stability, and argues that the danger is more nuanced and contingent on many factors.

Patrick discusses his new book, Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security, with Voice of America's Eric Felten.

Patrick discusses the construction of a world order after World War II, and his book The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War.