Best Carnegie Endowment For International Peace Podcasts (2025)

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Energy Transitions and Climate Developments in Southeast Asia with Jenny Schuch-Page 30:08

10h ago30:08

30:08

Greg and Elina are joined by Jenny Schuch-Page to discuss regional energy transitions and climate developments after COP 30. Japhet and Lauren cover the latest from the region, from SCS naval drills to multifaceted cooperation from unlikely partners.By CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Rewriting India’s Education Story, One Girl at a Time 47:19

4d ago47:19

47:19

This year, the non-profit Educate Girls became the first Indian organization ever to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award—often called Asia’s Nobel Prize. The foundation recognized the group for its groundbreaking work enrolling out-of-school girls, improving learning outcomes, and shifting social norms in some of India’s most underserved communities.…

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Beyond the Raj: Recasting the India–UK Partnership 49:43

11d ago49:43

49:43

India and the United Kingdom have spent decades trying to define their post-colonial relationship—part partnership, part rivalry, and often, part courtship. Today, that relationship is being recast amid trade talks, tech cooperation, and geopolitical shifts. The two sides recently signed a landmark trade agreement and officials in London and New De…

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AI’s Biggest Skeptic Sees a Bubble 52:14

16d ago52:14

52:14

The AI boom is the biggest investment mania in decades, channeling trillions of dollars into data center infrastructure. If investors bet right, they may usher in technological breakthroughs that produce vast wealth. If they’re wrong, they could crash the U.S. stock market, trigger a recession, and spread financial contagion globally. Ed Zitron was…

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Interpreting the 2025 Bihar Verdict 47:46

18d ago47:46

47:46

Bihar has once again delivered a political drama worthy of its reputation—record turnout, sharp debates over the voter rolls, a decisive victory for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and a fresh round of questions about whether the opposition has what it takes to displace Modi and the BJP. The NDA—anchored by Nitish Kumar and his Janata Dal (…

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Trump and MBS: What’s in Store for U.S.-Saudi Relations? 47:06

19d ago47:06

47:06

Perhaps no country in the Middle East has attracted more interest of the Trump administration than Saudi Arabia. President Trump took his first foreign trip there during his first term and he remains focused on the possibility of Israeli-Saudi normalization as part of a regional peace agreement in pursuit of a Nobel Peace prize. The visit of Crown …

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Why Information Refuses to Be Controlled 43:12

23d ago43:12

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We’re living through an era of information disruption. Novel technologies like AI and social media are unleashing pent-up social and political energies—releasing floods of new information and triggering intense battles for narrative control. While most analysts focus on small pieces of this puzzle, Alicia Wanless is a pioneering “information ecolog…

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Unpacking the CSIS Global Alignment Index with Susannah Patton 34:11

22d ago34:11

34:11

Greg and Andreyka are joined by Susannah Patton to discuss the Southeast Asia Program’s upcoming Global Alignment Index report. Japhet and Rocio cover the latest from the region, from updates on U.S.-Cambodia ties to the Philippines assuming the ASEAN chairmanship.By CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Understanding South Asia’s “Ordinary Rebels” 57:15

25d ago57:15

57:15

How do non-state armed groups act when the state seeks not to crush them—but to tolerate their activities? This is the central question of a new book by the political scientist Kolby Hanson titled, Ordinary Rebels: Rank-and-File Militants between War and Peace. Kolby is an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University, and his new book l…

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Trump’s $200 Billion Tariff Showdown at the Supreme Court 36:34

1M ago36:34

36:34

On November 5, the Supreme Court heard the most globally consequential oral arguments in years as Trump’s trade war faces a final legal reckoning. The Court will either strike down most of Trump’s tariffs, undercutting him in trade talks, or else hand U.S. presidents previously unimagined new powers over the global economy. Peter Harrell is a top t…

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How India’s Women Are Redefining Politics 59:45

1M ago59:45

59:45

For much of India’s democratic history, the woman voter has either been invisible or ignored – at times she has been spoken for, but very rarely listened to. A new book by the journalist Ruhi Tewari argues that this is no longer the case and seeks to understand why women have emerged from the political shadows. What Women Want: Understanding the Fe…

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America at Home and Abroad: A Conversation with Nicholas Kristof 50:13

1M ago50:13

50:13

From covering the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and South Sudan, to examining America’s evolving status on the global stage, to mounting concerns about American democracy under the Trump Administration, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof has had plenty to cover throughout 2025. Kristof’s columns alwa…

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Pacific Airwaves - Rivalry, Resilience, and Regional Unity 11:07

1M ago11:07

11:07

Monica and Andreyka discuss great power rivalry in the Pacific, climate change, and domestic politics in Nauru and the Solomon Islands.By CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Trump at ASEAN with Brian Eyler and Prashanth Parameswaran 40:35

1M ago40:35

40:35

Greg and Elina are joined by Prashanth Parameswaran and Brian Eyler to discuss recent summits across the Indo-Pacific, including the ASEAN and East Asia Summits. Japhet and Lauren cover the latest from the region, from mass scam operations in Cambodia to Myanmar’s upcoming general elections.By CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies

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The Forgotten Partitions That Remade South Asia 59:07

1M ago59:07

59:07

As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait—were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the “Indian Empire,” or more simply as the British Raj. And then, in just fifty years, the Indian Empire shat…

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"A House of Dynamite” Writer on How Nuclear War Works 47:00

1M ago47:00

47:00

A House of Dynamite, a new Netflix film, may be the most realistic depiction of a nuclear crisis ever made. Screenwriter Noah Oppenheim partnered with Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) to capture the intimate details of the U.S. national security state as a president (Idris Elba) and his advisors confront th…

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Rethinking America’s North Korea Strategy 47:51

1M ago47:51

47:51

As President Donald Trump prepares for his upcoming trip to South Korea to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may be on the agenda. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung first suggested the meeting during his recent trip to Washington. Trump and Kim seem open to the possibility, with o…

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A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation 1:20:52

2M ago1:20:52

1:20:52

A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India's Development Odyssey is a landmark new book by the scholars Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian. The book is an audacious attempt to trace how India—uniquely and daringly—attempted four concurrent transformations—building a state, creating an economy, changing society, and forging a sense of nationhood under …

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Inside MS-13, the Gang That Swallowed a Country 42:28

2M ago42:28

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MS-13 brought El Salvador to its knees and has spread to a dozen other nations, doing battle with presidents as much as rival gangs. Yet despite its infamy, MS-13 is poorly understood: It has little in common with the cartels, traffickers, or mafias that it’s often lumped in with. What is the violent logic behind MS-13, and why has it grown steadil…

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Quick Deals, Lasting Dread: Trump 2.0 in Southeast Asia with Greg Poling 37:42

2M ago37:42

37:42

Greg and Elina discuss Greg’s section of the recent CSIS compendium, “Navigating Disruption: Ally and Partner Responses to U.S. Foreign Policy.” Japhet and Lauren cover the latest from the region, from protests to contaminated shrimp.By CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies

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The Court and the Republic: A Conversation with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud 1:03:59

2M ago1:03:59

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Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was the fiftieth chief justice of India. An alumnus of Harvard Law School, he served as additional solicitor general of India. He was appointed as a judge of the Bombay High Court in 2000 and became the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court in 2013. In 2016, he was elevated to the Supreme Court of India, …

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Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Aren’t What You Think 36:45

2M ago36:45

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The end of USAID was among the biggest early controversies of President Donald Trump’s second term. The world watched in horror as Elon Musk’s DOGE took a chainsaw to U.S. foreign assistance, placing millions of lives at risk with brutal across-the-board cuts. But few people realize how much has changed since then. Behind the scenes, aid money was …

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H-1Bs, India, and the Global Talent Wars 50:46

2M ago50:46

50:46

By Britta Glennon, Milan Vaishnav

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October 7th Two Years On: An Assessment 49:01

2M ago49:01

49:01

By Natan Sachs, Khalil Shikaki, Aaron David Miller

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Did the Bolsonaro Trial Really Save Brazil's Democracy? 35:45

2M ago35:45

35:45

Brazil’s Supreme Court has just convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup to nullify his 2022 election loss. The country’s judicial system and Justice Alexandre de Moraes, a polarizing figure whom the co-conspirators had sought to assassinate, acted boldly, sentencing Bolsonaro to twenty-seven years in prison. Brazil is now the…

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Thai Politics Update with Ken Mathis Lohatepanont 29:54

2M ago29:54

29:54

Greg and Elina are joined by Ken Mathis Lohatepanont to discuss the latest updates from Thailand, including the new Bhumjaithai-led government, the fate of the Shinawatras, and the snap elections scheduled in 4 months.By CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies

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Why Washington Is Wooing Pakistan 48:22

2M ago48:22

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One of the most surprising developments in Washington, if you’re a South Asia-watcher, is the surprising turn in U.S.-Pakistan relations. Having largely sidelined Pakistan over the past decade or more, the current U.S. administration has courted Pakistan with an enthusiasm that has caught many analysts off-guard. In June, Trump hosted Pakistan’s ar…

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Energy Transitions and Climate Developments in Southeast Asia with Jenny Schuch-Page 30:08

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Rewriting India’s Education Story, One Girl at a Time 47:19

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Beyond the Raj: Recasting the India–UK Partnership 49:43

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AI’s Biggest Skeptic Sees a Bubble 52:14

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Interpreting the 2025 Bihar Verdict 47:46

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Trump and MBS: What’s in Store for U.S.-Saudi Relations? 47:06

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Why Information Refuses to Be Controlled 43:12

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Unpacking the CSIS Global Alignment Index with Susannah Patton 34:11

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Understanding South Asia’s “Ordinary Rebels” 57:15

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Trump’s $200 Billion Tariff Showdown at the Supreme Court 36:34

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How India’s Women Are Redefining Politics 59:45

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America at Home and Abroad: A Conversation with Nicholas Kristof 50:13

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Pacific Airwaves - Rivalry, Resilience, and Regional Unity 11:07

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Trump at ASEAN with Brian Eyler and Prashanth Parameswaran 40:35

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The Forgotten Partitions That Remade South Asia 59:07

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"A House of Dynamite” Writer on How Nuclear War Works 47:00

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Rethinking America’s North Korea Strategy 47:51

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A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation 1:20:52

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Inside MS-13, the Gang That Swallowed a Country 42:28

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Quick Deals, Lasting Dread: Trump 2.0 in Southeast Asia with Greg Poling 37:42

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The Court and the Republic: A Conversation with Justice D.Y. Chandrachud 1:03:59

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Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Aren’t What You Think 36:45

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H-1Bs, India, and the Global Talent Wars 50:46

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October 7th Two Years On: An Assessment 49:01

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Did the Bolsonaro Trial Really Save Brazil's Democracy? 35:45

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Thai Politics Update with Ken Mathis Lohatepanont 29:54

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Why Washington Is Wooing Pakistan 48:22

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