Foreign Affairs Focus: Recent Episodes
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Journalist Raksha Kumar speaks with Gita Aravamudan, author of Baby Makers: The Story of Indian Surrogacy, about commercial surrogacy in India.
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of the Economics of Innovation and author of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths speaks with Foreign Affairs editor Kathryn Allawala on the phone to discuss how and why government should take an active role in funding innovation--and what we have to gain.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vaunted “stability” has turned into spoliation. The methods he used to fix the corrupt, dysfunctional post-Soviet state have produced yet another corrupt, dysfunctional state—and unfortunately, there is no end to it in sight. Princeton University Professor Stephen Kotkin discusses his recent article, "The Resistible Rise of Vladimir Putin," with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
The civil war in Syria will soon enter its fifth year, with no end in sight. On January 20, Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus to discuss the conflict in an exclusive interview. Read the full interview here.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Haass had recently chaired talks in Northern Ireland that focused on disputes over flags, parades, and the past.
Original video interviewed published on January 29, 2014 on ForeignAffairs.com
It's "paradoxical" for the United States "to be so engaged with Russia and Ukraine, and be very passive in the Arctic," says Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, president of Iceland. And with Washington set to chair the Arctic Council beginning in 2015, "this will be a testing time." Grímsson sat down with Stuart Reid, senior editor at Foreign Affairs, to discuss ongoing developments in the rapidly melting Arctic.
Original video interview published on May 7, 2014 on ForeignAffairs.com
Washington simply doesn’t have the luxury of simply avoiding long wars against brutal insurgencies. Instead, it needs to figure out how to fight them better, argues Max Boot, Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the November/December edition of Foreign Affairs.Boot recently sat down with Gideon Rose to discuss how.
Original video interview published on October 27, 2014 on www.ForeignAffairs.com
Ananya Vajpeyi sits down with Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs. They discuss the rise of India's religious right, the campaign to suppress the work of Hinduism scholar Wendy Doniger, and what the election of Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist, will mean for Indian politics moving forward.
For more, read Vajpeyi's review essay, "The Triumph of the Hindu Right," in the September/October 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs. And to keep up with our books coverage, follow @FA_books on Twitter.
Original video interview published on August 26, 2014.
After more than a decade at war, what has Washington learned? Gideon Rose sits down with Richard Betts, Columbia University's Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, to discuss. For more, read Betts' recent article in the November/December 2014 edition of Foreign Affairs available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142205/richard-k-betts/pick-your-battles
Original video interview published on November 10, 2014 on ForeignAffairs.com
The shale revolution carries real environmental dangers, especially the release of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas. It still has the potential to benefit the environment as well as the economy, but only if industry and government work together to deal with the problems. To parse the potential risks and rewards, Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sat down with Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund.
For more on fracking and the environment, read Krupp's piece for the magazine.
Original video interview published on April 21, 2014
In the 20 years since it entered into force, the North American Free Trade Agreement has been both lauded and attacked. Few, however, question the treaty's lasting impact on the economies of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sat down with Carla Hills, the treaty's lead U.S. negotiator, to discuss its legacy.
For more, read Hills' essay on NAFTA at ForeignAffairs.com.
Original video interview published on June 6, 2014.