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Each week on FP Live, our flagship current affairs podcast and video show, host Ravi Agrawal explores key global issues with politicians, policymakers, and academics.<\/p>\n
This year, European leaders joined the program to address Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, former foreign ministers from Iran<\/a> and India<\/a> took on the conflicts embroiling their nations, and human rights advocates<\/a> and United Nations officials<\/a> addressed humanitarian crises in Sudan and Gaza. FP Live also assessed U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s high-stakes meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>, and Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Each week on FP Live, our flagship current affairs podcast and video show, host Ravi Agrawal explores key global issues with politicians, policymakers, and academics.<\/p>\n This year, European leaders joined the program to address Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, former foreign ministers from Iran<\/a> and India<\/a> took on the conflicts embroiling their nations, and human rights advocates<\/a> and United Nations officials<\/a> addressed humanitarian crises in Sudan and Gaza. FP Live also assessed U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s high-stakes meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, Russian President Vladimir Putin<\/a>, and Chinese President Xi Jinping<\/a>.<\/p>\n FP Live continued to tackle what Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d agenda really means, with important conversations analyzing the Trump administration\u2019s policies on immigration<\/a>, trade<\/a>, and diplomacy<\/a>. Economists took on the major debates of our time: the strength of the dollar<\/a>, the impacts of globalization<\/a>, the role of tariffs<\/a>, and the longevity of artificial intelligence-driven growth<\/a>. Throughout the year, Agrawal also hosted discussions about shifting party politics with a leading Democratic senator<\/a> and a Republican influencer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here are five discussions worth watching (or rewatching). If you\u2019re an FP Insider<\/a>, you can read transcripts of them, too.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s posture toward Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine has evolved over the past year. On the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Agrawal asked Kaja Kallas, the European Union\u2019s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, how Brussels reads the United States\u2019 changing attitude on the conflict.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been very clear on our own plan. What we are doing is pressuring Russia with sanctions,\u201d Kallas said. \u201cWe are also helping Ukraine\u2014militarily, financially, also politically\u2014as much as we can. We are staying on that course. Anybody else who wants to join is welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n As Washington upends many long-standing alliances and shifts its trade policies, Europe is \u201ctrying to have more friends around the world,\u201d Kallas said. \u201cI must say that considering the big picture and the behavior of the world\u2019s superpowers, we are increasingly more popular.\u201d Read the transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n The global north and global south have diverged sharply in their opinions of Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. As just two examples, South Africa has called the conflict a genocide, while the United States considered the military campaign a justified response to Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel.<\/p>\n One reason for this disconnect, according to Indian writer and public intellectual Pankaj Mishra, is \u201cthe color line.\u201d Agrawal interviewed Mishra on his new book, The World After Gaza: A History<\/em>, to understand the links between colonization, race, and modern conflict.<\/p>\n \u201cThe color line, the racial divide, has long been a reality,\u201d Mishra said. \u201cAnd in many ways, it has created the modern world that we live in. Its memory has not vanished for the many people who still see themselves as living in a world made by and for white men. And obviously, that is going to manifest itself in geopolitical relations and in the way we look at events like Gaza.\u201d Read the transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Earlier this year, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance stunned the foreign-policy community with a speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he questioned Europe\u2019s democratic values and criticized its leaders\u2019 commitment to free speech.<\/p>\n Agrawal asked Finnish President Alexander Stubb to respond: \u201cThe good thing with free speech is that you can have different views. For me, free speech means responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cIt means fact-checking. It means an open dialogue between different ideologies and identities. And if that is what Vice President J.D. Vance meant, it\u2019s a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n Amid Europe\u2019s increasingly tense relations with the United States, Finland\u2019s perspective as a new NATO member is particularly interesting. At the time of this interview, the U.S. commitment to the alliance\u2014and to Ukraine\u2014was wavering. While Stubb applauded Trump for engaging with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he qualified that he does \u201cnot think you can have peace without Ukraine or Europe.\u201d Read the transcript<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n1. One-on-One With Europe\u2019s Top Diplomat<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n2. On Gaza and Morality<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\n3. FP at the Munich Security Conference: Finland\u2019s President Alexander Stubb<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
\n4. How Gen Z Thinks About Foreign Policy<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n