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[South Korean President] Lee [Jae-myung] will want to signal to the US and the international community his willingness to engage with Japan on a range of issues including regional..."
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Tanvi Madan joined the Financial Times’ Rachman Review to assess what is next for India as the Trump-Modi friendship sours.
The Global Agora August 13, 2025
Vanda Felbab-Brown joins The Global Agora podcast to discuss the possibility of a U.S.-style fentanyl epidemic in Europe.
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Director - Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology @VFelbabBrown
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Tanvi Madan joined Carnegie’s Milan Vaishnav and AEI’s Sadanand Dhume to discuss U.S.-India trade tensions, the motivations behind Trump’s decision, India’s response to the crisis, and...
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Vanda Felbab-Brown joined the Talibanology podcast to discuss the Taliban Emirate’s factions, fiefdoms, and its fragile control
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Asia Society July 22, 2025
Mireya Solís examined the critical dimensions of U.S. trade policy under the second Trump administration’s and its impact on the future of U.S.-Japan relations at the Asia Society.
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Director - Center for Asia Policy Studies, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies
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Mira Rapp-Hooper broke down public opinion polling on waning U.S. influence in the world and rising Chinese influence on “Velshi” on MSNBC.
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Mira Rapp-Hooper joins the Bulwark’s “Shield of the Republic” podcast alongside Rebecca Friedman Lissner to discuss their recent Foreign Affairs article, “Absent at the Creation?:...
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Susan B. Glasser interviews Fiona Hill about Vladimir Putin’s long reign and Trump’s dismantling of American institutions on The New Yorker’s “The Political Scene”...
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The Foreign Affairs Interview July 10, 2025
Mira Rapp-Hooper and Rebecca Lissner joined “The Foreign Affairs Interview” to chart a path forward for the world after Trump and the future of U.S. foreign policy.
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