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During the recent U.S. presidential campaign, railing against trade became a popular pastime. But it is nothing new. Today on the podcast, we’re looking at how efforts to weaken trade have played out in the past, and whether Trump’s proposed trade policies will do what he promises.
Featuring interviews with Eduardo Campanella, a Eurozone economist, discussing mercantilism in the past and Marc Levinson, author of An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy, on the outlook for Trump’s trade restrictionism.
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On the podcast today, Foreign Affairs continues its discussion on the power of populism. Since we recorded the last show, Americans have gone to the polls and elected Donald Trump as the next U.S. president. We’ll be discussing what his victory means for populism around the world, for Europe, and for Latin America. Featuring interviews with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose, Carlo Accetti, and Shannon O’Neil.
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On the podcast today, Foreign Affairs discusses the power of populism. Pankaj Mishra, author of “The Globalization of Rage,” takes a historical view of today’s unrest; Cas Mudde discusses the spread of populism in Europe; and Nadia Urbinati speaks on the best response to populism at home.
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This week, we provide an intimate look at the changing dynamics of Israel’s relationships with its Middle East neighbors, as many of them go through a period of intense conflict and turmoil. Featuring interviews with Middle East Experts Amos Harel, Steven Cook, and Grant Rumley and hosted by Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao.
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The age of global transparency is upon us. Whether you’re using mobile wiretaps, drones, or satellites, surveillance has become cheap and ubiquitous. And governments aren’t the only ones doing it. These days, almost anyone can peek into the lives of the world’s rich and powerful—and expose sensitive information, using new-fangled technologies or old-fashioned methods like leaks to the press.
In this episode of Foreign Affairs Unedited, we’re taking a closer look at what the end of secrecy really means for governments, politicians, and everyday people.
Guest-hosted by Deputy Web Editor Brian O’Connor and featuring guests Colonel Sean Larkin, Henry Farrell, and Thorgils Jonsson.
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In this episode of Foreign Affairs Unedited, we’re looking at Iran’s use of cyberwarfare after the nuclear deal, the coming Iranian succession crisis, and Iran’s generational struggle to reconcile enlightenment ideals with political Islam. Hosted by Deputy Managing Editor Katie Allawala and featuring guests Ilan Berman, Alex Vatanka, and Ervand Abrahamian.
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In part two of our Foreign Affairs Unedited series on Russia under Putin, we’re looking at the history of Russian aggression and the country’s recent military reform. Featuring Gideon Rose, Stephen Kotkin, and Demetri Trenin.
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Over the past decade and a half, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has been an economic dynamo and a basket case, an imperfect democracy and a tightening tyranny, a constructive diplomatic actor and a serial military aggressor—sometimes all at once. The only constant has been surprise, as the zigging and zagging has left outside observers, and even many Russians, scratching their heads.
Today on the podcast, we’re discussing Putin’s strategy of repression, the real state of the Russian economy, and whether Putin really has a clear foreign policy. Featuring interviews with authors Maria Lipman, Sergei Guriev, and Daniel Treisman.
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For the most part, when people think of crunching numbers, they imagine charts and graphs. Today on the podcast, we’re exploring unusual ways to look at—or rather, listen to—data. Sound can perhaps present information with more urgency and clarity than a visualization. Since this is Foreign Affairs, and we’re nottracking u-boats underwater, we decided to apply the data sonification technique to some somewhat obscure data sets - including the Cheeseburger Index. Listen in as Matt Kenney describes the creation process and Nick Colas dissects the numbers.
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Everyone knows that China’s economy is slowing. But is it still growing? That depends on what you measure. Today on the podcast, we’re talking with three experts, each with a different take on assessing the Chinese economy. Featuring interviews with recent authors Salvatore Babones, Eduardo Campanella, and Punkaj Ghemawat.
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In this episode, Foreign Affairs authors discuss how stagnation in Russia and China could lead to anarchy in Eurasia, the role that demographics play in economic stagnation, and what central banks can do to goose growth. Featuring interviews with recent authors Robert Kaplan, Ruchir Sharma, and co-authors Tom Hill and Ian Morris.
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With China slumping, energy prices collapsing, and nervous consumers sitting on their hands, growth has ground to a halt almost everywhere, and economists, investors, and ordinary citizens are starting to confront a grim new reality: the world is stuck in the slow lane and nobody seems to know what to do about it. Listen in as Larry Summers, Zachary Karabell, and Anne Kreuger discuss the dangers, risks, and opportunities of slow growth and what, if anything, there is to do about it.
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To learn more on the subject, check out the March/April 2016 issue on ForeignAffairs.com.
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Was the Arab Spring a mirage? Did it mean anything? Five years on, we’re looking at how the revolutions panned out in Tunisia and Egypt, and why Turkey lost the Arab Spring. Featuring interviews with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Brian Klaas, Marina Ottoway, Nathan Brown, and Merve Tahiroglu.
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Around the world, incomes and wealth for the majority have stagnated even as they have skyrocketed for those at the top. In part two of Foreign Affairs' coverage on inequality, we explore what works and what doesn’t, from Brazil’s Bolsa Familia, to new kinds of taxes, to Donald Trump’s and Bernie Sanders’ own economic proposals. Hear it from the experts themselves: featuring interviews with Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Jonathan Tepperman, British economist Anthony Atkinson, and political scientist Kimberly Morgan.
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In part one of a two-part series on inequality, we delve into the rise of economic inequality, when and why it matters, and what to do about it. Featuring Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, Allison Schrager, New York–based economist and writer, and Ronald Inglehart, professor at the University of Michigan.
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Part II of a two-part series highlighting the best Foreign Affairs Unedited podcasts of 2015, we revisit some of our favorite conversations on women and gender from around the world. Featuring interviews with Ira Trivedi on bride trafficking in India, Nadia Hashimi on Afghanistan’s female sons, and Adrienne Mayor on the myth and reality of the Amazons.
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Part I of a two-part series highlighting the best Unedited podcasts of 2015, we revisit some of our favorite interviews on Putin: his motivations, his strategy, and his ideology. Featuring interviews with Stephen Kotkin, Gregory Feifer, and Nussaibah Younis and hosted by Deputy Managing Editor, Katie Allawala. This podcast has been edited and condensed. Full transcripts are available athttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/browse/audio.
Part II of a two part series on the new Middle East—Gideon Rose, Dan Byman, Cyrus Amir-Mokri, and Hamid Biglari chime in on the United States’ response to ISIS after the Paris attacks, counterterrorism in the Middle East, and Iran’s post-sanction economy.
In this edition of Foreign Affairs Unedited, part one of a two part series on the new Middle East, Denise Natali, Natan Sachs, and Jared Cohen discuss who can replace the United States in the region, Israel’s strategy, and how to combat ISIS in the digital age. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com. Music credit FreeMusicArchive.org / The Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionisio, Podington Bear
Steve Hindy, co-founder and chairman of Brooklyn Brewery, talks about his Foreign Affairs article "Ancient Ales," as well as the future of craft brewing around the world.
The conflict in Syria has never been simple. From popular uprising, to civil war, to proxy war, the evolving conflict has left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. And now, with the addition of Russian airstrikes, things could get a lot more complicated.
Foreign Affairs editors speak with the experts - Gregory Feifer, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, Jeffrey Stacey, and Dr. Nussaibah Younis - to discuss Russia’s intervention in Syria, what to do about Putin, and how to prevent the next Cold War.
A panel of Foreign Affairs experts, Sebastian Mallaby, Péter Krekó, Tara Zahra, Sebastian Elischer, and Patrick Sykes, discuss the issues surrounding the ongoing global refugee crisis.
Neri Zilber, adjunct fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, talks with Sam Winter-Levy, Assistant Editor, about Abbas, the Palestinian authority and the possibility of a third intifada.
In this Foreign Affairs Unedited podcast, Ira Trivedi talks with Rebecca Chao, Deputy Web Editor, about gender politics and the bride trafficking business in India. Read the article, When When a Bride-to-Be Is a Bride to Buy on ForeignAffairs.com
Bret Stephens, columnist for The Wall Street Journal, debates Obama's foreign policy legacy with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses Ebola and what to do to prevent it from happening again with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
Kathleen McNamara, author of the recent book “The Politics of Everyday Europe” discusses who to blame for the Greek crisis and the future of the EU with Foreign Affairs Staff Editor Nikita Lalwani.
Antonio Patriota, Brazil's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, discusses Brazil’s role in the global order with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
Benjamin Duerr, a correspondent covering war crimes issues and the courts in The Hague, discusses the acquittal of Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O’Connor.
Nisid Hajari, author of Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition, discusses Indian partition with Foreign AffairsEditor Gideon Rose.
Gregory Feifer, author of "Russians: The People Behind the Power," discusses Russia and Vladimir Putin with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O’Connor.
David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, discusses humanitarian aid around the world with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose. Read the article: “Improving Humanitarian Aid.”
John McArthur discusses strategies to end world hunger and his recent article, "The Hunger Game,” with Foreign Affairs Staff Editor Nikita Lalwani.
Andy Nathan, professor of Political Science at Columbia University, discusses the future of China with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
Author Chris Walsh discusses the history of cowardice and his recent article, "The Coward’s Guide to History," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Managing Editor Katie Allawala.
Author Ian Bremmer discusses America’s role in the world, the Obama administration's record, and his new book SuperPower, with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
Author Christine Balling discusses Colombia’s minister of defense, Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno, with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao. Read the article at ForeignAffairs.com.
Author Harris Irfan discusses Islamic finance and conscious capitalism with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O'Connor. An excerpt of his book was recently featured on ForeignAffairs.com.
"Ancient historians and classical scholars have long argued that Amazons were purely imaginary ... we now have enough evidence, archaeological and otherwise, to call that into question," says Adrienne Mayor, research scholar at Stanford University. Mayor recently sat down with Foreign Affairs Deputy Managing Editor Katie Allawala to discuss her recent article "Warrior Women: The Myth and Reality of the Amazons.”
Author Amrita Narlikar discusses Doha, the WTO, and her recent article "The Power of the Powerless," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao.
Author and Middle East expert, Emma Sky, discusses Iraqi politics and her path to becoming the political advisor to U.S. General Ray Odierno in Iraq with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
In this edition of Foreign Affairs Unedited, author David Schenker discusses Jordanian politics and his recent article "In Jordan, Problems and Politics are Local," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao. Visit www.ForeignAffairs.com to read the article.
"In the battle over cultural heritage, repatriation claims based strictly on national origin are more than just denials of cultural exchange: they are also arguments against the promise of encyclopedic museums," writes James Cuno in his Nov/Dec 2014 article in Foreign Affairs. "Cultural property should be recognized for what it is: the legacy of humankind and not of the modern nation-state, subject to the political agenda of its current ruling elite." Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, recently sat down with Cuno to discuss his case against repatriating museum artifacts.
In this edition of Foreign Affairs Unedited, author Matthew Johnson discusses the British election and his recent article "Empire at Sunset," with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Brian O'Connor.
Foreign Affairs author Nadia Hashimi discusses the tradition of Bacha Posh and her recent article "Afghanistan's Female Sons,"with Foreign Affairs Deputy Web Editor Rebecca Chao.
Foreign Affairs author Jennifer Williams discusses al Qaeda's letters and her recent article "The Bureaucracy of Terror,"with Foreign Affairs Deputy Managing Editor Katie Allawala.
The Coin Center's Jerry Brito sits down with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose to discuss Bitcoin, one of the "currencies of the future."
"We live in a world now in which cross-group solidarities are being generated in ways that would've astonished our predecessors." Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses his recent article "Race in the Modern World" with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
The U.S. electrical grid has hardly changed since the 1880s, and its reliability, effectiveness, and affordability are increasingly being brought into question. To prevent disaster, regulators must abandon outdated electrical architecture and redesign the grid. Bloomberg Analyst Brian Warshay discusses his recent article "Upgrading the Grid" with Foreign Affairs Deputy Managing Editor Stuart Reid.
Despite all the grim predictions, the European Union is not on the verge of collapse. Quite the contrary: if European leaders act with resolve and persistence, the union could experience a rebirth. Professor R. Daniel Kelemen discusses his recent article "Europe Reborn" with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose.
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,"withForeign 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.
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.
The 1973 coup in Chile is often included in indictments of U.S. covert action during the Cold War. But Jack Devine, a former CIA operations officer who was stationed in Chile at the time, argues in the July/August 2014 issue that the CIA did not plot with Chilean General Augusto Pinochet to overthrow the country's democratically elected president, Salvadore Allende.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, recently sat down with Devine to get his take on U.S. involvement in Chile, the role of covert action in U.S. foreign policy, and Putin's playbook in Ukraine.
Original video interview published on ForeignAffairs.com on June 23, 2014
"Every now and then, the field of economics produces an important book; this is one of them," writes Tyler Cowen in his Foreign Affairs review of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century. "Piketty’s tome will put capitalist wealth back at the center of public debate, resurrect interest in the subject of wealth distribution, and revolutionize how people view the history of income inequality." But Cowen finds Piketty's main prescription, a proposal for the global taxation of wealth, "an unsatisfying conclusion to a groundbreaking work of analysis that is frequently brilliant -- but flawed, as well."
Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs, sat down with Piketty to discuss inequality and his controversial policy proposals.
Original video interview published on ForeignAffairs.com on April 23, 2014.
Anand Gopal, a former Afghanistan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, sits down with Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs.Gopal, whose latest book was reviewed in the November/December 2014 issue, talks about interviewing Taliban commanders, the prospects for Afghanistan's new leadership, and why ISIS is gaining followers. This video interview was published on ForeignAffairs.com on December 9, 2014.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, previews the new issue. Inside, you’ll find a special package on entrepreneurship including interviews with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Sprint’s Marcelo Claure, CyPhy Works’ Helen Greiner, Celtel founder Mo Ibrahim, venture capitalist Michael Moritz, and Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Elizabeth Economy, C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global reach: a Singapore on steroids. But there is no guarantee the reforms will be as transformative as the Chinese leader hopes.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Alexander Motyl, an expert on Ukraine who teaches political science at Rutgers University–Newark. "Putin has effectively lost Ukraine," says Motyl. "For the first time in the 25 or so years of Ukraine's independence, I'd say that virtually...the entire Ukrainian population, minus a bit of the Donbas, but even there wavering...is united against Putin, is united against Russia, and is united for Ukraine. That's never been the case. And Ukraine has Putin to thank for that."
Read Motyl's latest article at www.foreignaffairs.com
Original video interview published July 18, 2014.
"Despite its doubters and haters, the shale revolution in oil and gas production is here to stay," writes Ed Morse in the May/June 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs. And "in the second half of this decade," he continues, "it is likely to spread globally more quickly than most think." To further parse the implications of the shale boom, Morse recently sat down with Stuart Reid, senior editor at Foreign Affairs.This video interview was originally published on May 22, 2014.
Did U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke cause the Ukraine crisis? "You can certainly say that Bernanke was at least the butterfly wings that precipitated the crisis," argues Benn Steil, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of "Taper Trouble" in the July/August 2014 edition of Foreign Affairs. "I would argue that if the Fed had remained dovish, say for another six months or so, it is possible that Ukraine could have gotten over this hump and Yanukovych would still be in power today."
Steil recently sat down with Foreign Affairs Editor Gideon Rose for a wide-ranging conversation on the international consequences of Fed policy.
Original video interview published on ForeignAffairs.com on August 2, 2014.
"All countries struggle to square their histories with their self-images," writes Keith Gessen in the July/August 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs,"but over the past two decades, Russia has found the history of the Soviet era especially vexing and difficult to accommodate." Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs, sat down with Gessen, co-editor of n+1, to discuss how Russia is grappling with its Soviet legacy today. Original video interview published on July 1, 2014. www.ForeignAffairs.com
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Laura Secor, a journalist who has reported from Iran for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, to discuss the lasting legacy of the Iranian revolution.
Read Secor's recent review essay here.
Will Chinese economic development ultimately lead to political development? In Age of Ambition, the journalist Evan Osnos thinks he has found the missing link: the emergence in Chinese society of a search for dignity. Justin Vogt, deputy managing editor of Foreign Affairs, recently sat down with Osnos to discuss Chinese spirituality, Beijing's censorship of journalists, and President Xi Jinping's anticorruption campaign. For more books coverage, follow us on Twitter @FA_books and subscribe to our monthly Books and Reviews newsletter. This video interview was originally published on September 18, 2014.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, interviews Laurie Garrett, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the promise and perils of synthetic biology. Read Garrett's cover article here.
This video interview was originally published on January 15, 2014.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, interviews Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. Jervis discusses ongoing nuclear talks with Iran, the prospects for an agreement, how scholarship on nuclear weapons has evolved, and the possibility of an Iranian-Israeli nuclear standoff.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with Ray Kelly, former New York City Police Commissioner. Kelly describes setting up the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism bureau, its strategy for preventing terrorist attacks after 9/11, the department's diversity efforts, and its collaboration with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. He also comments on recent lawsuits against the department, the controversy surrounding its stop-and-frisk tactics, the decline in New York City's crime rate, and the legacy of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.