FP Live

A new book by researcher Dan Wang makes the case that while China has become an engineering state obsessed with building, America has become a lawyerly society focused on procedures and blocking. On FP Live, Wang explored what the two countries can learn from each other.

Is the United States pivoting away from India, or will U.S.-India ties revert back to the positive trajectory of the last two decades? Former Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao joined FP Live to discuss what’s at stake.

Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, has a “war plan” to combat Trumpism. She sat down with FP’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss how the Democratic Party can win back voters and how she sees the role of U.S. power abroad.

Did the highly-anticipated meeting in Alaska alter the trajectory of the war in Ukraine? As dust settles on the summit, FP’s Ravi Agrawal chatted with a former CIA analyst focused on Russia, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and and Sergey Radchenko, a Cold War historian.

Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik argues that while Trump’s tariffs amount to economic war, unfettered globalization has long been under stress and was no longer a reliable growth model for developing economies. Rodrik joined FP Live to discuss how countries should navigate Trump’s trade policies.

FP columnist and realist scholar Emma Ashford joined FP’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss how Washington needs to think about its role in what she calls a “post-unipolar world.”

Britain, Canada, and France are moving to formally recognize Palestine, as Western populations push Israel to change the status quo in Gaza. But why now? And will it shift Israeli policy? FP’s Ravi Agrawal spoke with Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator.

European members of NATO recently agreed to invest 5 percent of their GDPs on defense-related spending. Jared Cohen joined FP Live to discuss how Europe can rearm—and the trade-offs that might entail.

Russian and Ukrainian envoys ended their peace talks in Istanbul last week after only an hour. And U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose “very significant” sanctions on Moscow. Michael McFaul, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, joined FP Live to explain the motivations guiding Presidents Trump, Putin, and Zelensky.

FP Live will take stock of the global implications of the second Trump presidency. Executive producer, Dana Sherne, will turn the tables on regular host Ravi Agrawal, who will also offer his impressions after his trip to China and India.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington on Monday to take stock of the attacks on Iran and the potential for a cease-fire in Gaza. Thomas Friedman joined FP Live to discuss his takeaways.

Live from The Hague, host Ravi Agrawal sat down with the defense ministers of Belgium, Latvia, and the Netherlands, as well as Turkey’s secretary of defense industries, to discuss the trans-Atlantic defense industrial base.