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March 27, 2024

Space
UFOs: Close Encounters of the National Security Kind

On this episode of Why It Matters, experts discuss the national security concerns around UFOs and the real search for extraterrestrial life.

Podcast Sign for UFO "self parking" against a blue sky.

December 14, 2023

Venezuela
Guyana-Venezuela Border Dispute, Missile Defense Base in Poland, DRC Elections, and More

Guyana and Venezuela begin discussion on a territorial dispute over the Essequibo region; the Redzikowo U.S. missile defense base in Poland becomes operable; the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ho…

Podcast People gather in front of Venezuela's National Electoral Council headquarters in support of the referendum on a disputed zone with Guyana in Caracas, Venezuela on October 20, 2023.

December 12, 2023

South Korea
The U.S.-South Korea Alliance, With Scott A. Snyder

Scott A. Snyder, a senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the importance of the U.S.-South Korea military …

Podcast A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine is greeted by South Korean Navy soldiers upon its arrival at a naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea on July 24, 2023.

October 5, 2023

Russia
Russia Tests New Missile and Seeks to Rejoin UN Human Rights Council, ICJ Takes On Syria, and More

Recent satellite imagery indicates that Russia is preparing to test a new nuclear-powered missile; the UN Human Rights Council votes on new members, with Russia vying to rejoin after its April 2022 s…

Podcast The empty seat for the representative of Russia during the Human Rights Council special session on Ukraine in Geneva, Switzerland on May 12, 2022.

September 19, 2023

Ukraine
Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive, With Max Boot

Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies at CFR and a columnist for the Washington Post, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the progress Ukraine is making…

Podcast A Ukrainian soldier indicates the positions of the Russian snipers in Serebryansky Forest on July 27, 2023.

March 30, 2023

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Turkish Presidential Campaigning Begins, Russia’s Cloudy Security Council Presidency, Disney World at 50, and More

Turkey’s presidential candidates officially kick-off their campaigns ahead of May elections; Russia begins its term as president of the UN Security Council; and Walt Disney World wraps up its fiftiet…

Podcast A general view from the U.N. Security Council high-level meeting on the first anniversary of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine at the UN headquarters on February 24, 2023 in New York City.

March 29, 2023

Arctic
What’s Cracking in the Arctic?

As rising global temperatures thaw the ice at the North Pole of the planet, competition between nuclear-powered states threatens to heat up the Arctic Circle even further. An increasingly minable Arc…

Podcast Red icebreaker sails through Arctic ice sheets.