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July 20, 2023

Ukraine
Black Sea Grain Blockade, Spain’s Snap Elections, Hollywood Strikes’ Broader Impact, and More

Russia’s rejection of extending the Black Sea Grain Initiative threatens global food security; Spain holds an early general election amid signs of a resurgent populist right; Comic-Con and the media …

Podcast Wheat grains are seen inside a storage damaged by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhia

July 13, 2023

Taiwan
Taiwan, China, and the Threat of War

A small island one hundred miles off the coast of China could be the flashpoint that determines the future of great-power competition. Experts increasingly warn that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan woul…

Podcast Missiles lined up on a beach shore in Taiwan.

June 13, 2023

U.S. Department of Defense
The U.S. Military Recruiting Crisis, With Nora Bensahel

Nora Bensahel, a visiting professor of strategic studies and senior fellow of the Merrill Center at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to disc…

Podcast U.S. military recruits are sworn at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado, on November 5, 2022.

May 25, 2023

Supply Chains
Down and Dirty: The Global Fertilizer Dilemma

Feeding the world's eight billion people has never been easy. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine shocked the market for fertilizer, that task has gotten even harder. The fertilizer crisis threaten…

Podcast Farmers in crop field spraying fertilizer.

May 18, 2023

Syria
Syria Returns to the Arab League, G7 Summit in Japan, UN Discussions on North Korea, and More

The Arab League summit marks the return of Syria and its president, Bashar al-Assad; Japan hosts the leaders of the Group of Seven democracies in Hiroshima, Japan, with concerns over China and Russia…

Podcast Syria's President al-Assad attends the opening ceremony of the Arab summit in Riyadh in 2007