
2025: The Year in Diplomacy
Guest: Marc Grossman, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs and ambassador to Turkey The world looks very different at the end of 2025 compared to the beginning of the year. How did diplomacy contribu

Hosted by Nicholas Kralev · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
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Guest: Marc Grossman, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs and ambassador to Turkey The world looks very different at the end of 2025 compared to the beginning of the year. How did diplomacy contribu

Guest: Kate Byrnes, former U.S. ambassador to North Macedonia and deputy chief of mission in Greece The Institute of International Education reported last month that new enrollments of foreign students at U.S. colleges a

Guest: Charles A. Ray, former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia and Zimbabwe and former deputy assistant secretary of defense. The U.S. military and the Foreign Service are two parts of the same national-security apparatus, bu

Guest: Tom Countryman, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation The Trump administration has done an excellent job inundating us with all kinds of news, pronouncements and

The Trump administration has won much praise for brokering a deal between Israel and Hamas to stop the war in Gaza. The ceasefire has proven very fragile, and three senior U.S. officials are currently in Israel to bolste

Educated everyday people, not members of the elite or foreign-policy experts, share their views. The United States still receives more attention by the world’s media than any other country, and the average citizen on eve

Guest: Michael O'Hanlon, chair in defense and strategy at the Brookings Institution. Understanding the relationship between diplomacy and military force is essential in designing and implementing national security policy

Guest: Gabrielius Landsbergis, former foreign minister of Lithuania. The relationship between the United States and Europe has been quite shaken in the last seven month — from diverging worldviews to disagreements about

Guest: Elizabeth Saunders, professor of political science at Columbia University. The U.S. Supreme Court surprised many constitutional lawyers last summer, when it granted presidents “absolute immunity” for their officia

Guest: Chas Freeman, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and assistant secretary of defense. No other country in history has achieved the level of soft power the United States enjoyed for decades, with a peak in the e

What do the collapse of U.S. policymaking and gutting the NSC mean for Americans' safety? The Trump White House has slashed the staff of the National Security Council, whose role is to coordinate policymaking, by more th

Rare insight from one of the architects of U.S. post-Cold War policy in Europe. As the Russia-Ukraine conflict risks becoming the latest forgotten war, a major reason is the deadlock in diplomatic efforts to end it. On t

Guest: Janice Jacobs, former U.S. assistant secretary of state for consular affairs and ambassador to Senegal. The Trump administration has launched an unprecedented attack on international students. Harvard students fac
Danielle Pletka
distinguished senior fellow in foreign policy and defense studies · American Enterprise Institute
1 appearance on this show
Gabrielius Landsbergis
former Minister of Foreign Affairs · Lithuanian government
1 appearance on this show
Elizabeth Saunders
professor of political science · Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
1 appearance on this show
Chas Freeman
former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and assistant secretary of defense
1 appearance on this show
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