Foreign Exchanges: the Podcast

Stories from Libya, Sweden, Peru, and elsewhere

Stories from Armenia, Ethiopia, Ukraine, and elsewhere

Stories from Syria, China, Ukraine, and elsewhere

Stories from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela, and elsewhere

Stories from China, Fiji, Nigeria, and elsewhere

Stories from Pakistan, Tunisia, Peru, and elsewhere

Stories from Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Slovakia, and elsewhere

Stories from Israel-Palestine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, and elsewhere

Stories from Qatar, Bangladesh, Kosovo, and elsewhere

Stories from the United Arab Emirates, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ukraine, and elsewhere

Stories from Iran, Tunisia, Russia, and elsewhere

Stories from Syria, China, Venezuela, and elsewhere

I’m joined by historian Michael Franczak, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Order at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House, to recap the COP26 summit. Michael covered the first week of the c…

This week I’m pleased to welcome back The Intercept’s Andrew Fishman for an update on Foreign Exchanges’ favorite world leader, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. We’ll talk about Bolsonaro’s crater…

I’m very grateful that the University of Florida’s Terje Østebø was able to make his third Foreign Exchanges appearance this week to talk about the rapidly changing situation in Ethiopia’s Tigray reg…

This week I’m joined by attorney and activist Elizabeth Beavers, who has just written a piece for Fellow Travelers titled “Ilhan Omar was Right: The Ugly Reality of International ‘Justice’” that delv…

This week I’m joined by Andrew Leber from Harvard's Department of Government and defense technology journalist Kelsey Atherton to talk about a new briefing book produced by their excellent Fellow Tra…

What happens when an Islamic Republic decides that the “Republic” part maybe isn’t such a big deal? Journalist and returning guest Séamus Malekafzali and Sina Toossi, senior research analyst at the N…

This week I’m very pleased to welcome back Annelle Sheline, research fellow at the Quincy Institute and scholar of the Arab world. She’s written a new piece for Foreign Policy titled “Washington Has …

Returning champion and Foreign Exchanges contributor Alex Thurston is here to discuss the apparent, though not yet totally confirmed, death of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and what it means for …