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October 11, 2018

United Nations
The United States Searches for a New UN Ambassador and Indonesia Hosts IMF-World Bank Annual Summit

The United States searches for a new ambassador to the UN, Indonesia hosts an IMF-World Bank summit, and the German state of Bavaria holds elections.

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Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon The World Next Week

February 29, 2024

United States
Biden Addresses SOTU, Iran Holds Elections, Bosnia’s Pipeline Feud, and More

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his last State of the Union address before elections to a polarized Congress; Iran holds its first parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections since the 2022 pro…

Podcast A view of a billboard with candidate propaganda pictures, placards on it as a people walk past in a street of the Iranian capital Tehran on February 28, 2024. Legislative elections are scheduled to take place in the country on 1 March 2024.
Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

April 10, 2024

Genocide and Mass Atrocities
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide

Thirty years ago, Rwanda’s government began a campaign to eradicate the country’s largest minority group. This Why It Matters episode discusses how in just one hundred days, 800,000 people in Rwanda were killed, while the rest of the world sat on the sidelines.

Podcast Woman carrying her child reads the names of Rwandan genocide victims.
Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra, David J. Scheffer, and Claude Gatebuke Why It Matters

July 18, 2023

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Assessing the NATO Summit, With Ivo H. Daalder

Ivo H. Daalder, the chief executive of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss th…

Podcast Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, U.S. President Joe Biden, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the start of a meeting at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023.
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Ivo H. Daalder The President’s Inbox

May 25, 2021

Taiwan
U.S. Policy on Taiwan, With Robert D. Blackwill

Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, CFR’s Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and a member of Harvard Kennedy School’s Applied History Project, sits down with James M. Lindsay to dis…

Podcast Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen (2nd R) gestures to a US official (L) as US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar (R) and director of the American of Institute in Taiwan, Brent Christensen (2nd L), look on during their visit to the Presidential Office in Taipei on August 10, 2020.
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Robert D. Blackwill The President’s Inbox

January 11, 2021

Transition 2021
Transition 2021 Replay: Biden’s CIA Director Nominee on U.S. Diplomacy

President-Elect Joe Biden recently nominated Ambassador William J. Burns to serve as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In June of 2019, Ambassador Burns and James M. Lindsay discussed …

Podcast Then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns makes remarks at a session of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the State Department in Washington July 11, 2013.
Podcast by James M. Lindsay and William J. Burns The President’s Inbox