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How AI is transforming warfare and the US military with Katrina Manson
Episode 400
Ian Bremmer's guest this week is author and Bloomberg defense tech reporter Katrina Manson, who spent years reporting on Project Maven for her new bo…
3 months ago
Cuba's Trump standoff and economic crisis with Michael Bustamante
Episode 399
Historian Michael Bustamante joins Ian Bremmer to discuss Cuba's economic freefall, Trump's end game, and the hopes of Cuban Americans.
This week, Ia…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
North Korea's nuclear gamble pays off, with the WSJ's Jonathan Cheng
Episode 398
North Korea has nuclear weapons, a succession plan hiding in plain sight, and a personality cult that has outlasted Stalin's and Mao's combined. Wall…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Assessing the Iran War's "structural damage" with Harvard economist Gita Gopinath
Episode 397
Rising energy prices, higher inflation, and growing economic uncertainty — a Harvard economist says the fallout from the Iran war is already being fe…
4 months ago
Viktor Orbán's last stand, and the future of Europe's far right with Ivan Krastev
Episode 396
Ian Bremmer sits down with Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and political scientist, to discuss Hungary's consequential up…
4 months, 1 week ago
Rahm Emanuel on Trump's Iran war “of choice” and midterm implications
Episode 395
Ian Bremmer and Rahm Emanuel discuss the deepening conflict in the Middle East, US foreign policy under Trump, and the upcoming midterms.
Rahm Emanue…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Unpacking Iran’s competing endgames with Brookings Institution’s Thomas Wright
Episode 394
Ian Bremmer sits down with Thomas Wright, Brookings Institution fellow and former Senior Director at the US National Security Council, to unpack the …
5 months ago
Tariffs: what comes next with Paul Krugman and Scott Lincicome
Episode 393
While Washington has become more hostile to globalization, Americans continue to buy foreign goods in record numbers. Lincicome notes that economic n…
5 months, 1 week ago
Iran at war with Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour
Episode 392
Ian Bremmer sits down with Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace to examine Iran’s precarious position on the global stage and the for…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
President Trump's power-first foreign policy with CFR's President
Episode 391
From sweeping tariffs to threats of military action and withdrawal from international institutions, Trump has demonstrated a willingness to break wit…
6 months ago