Deep Dish on Global Affairs

As COVID-19 continues to surge around the world,  CNN 's Fareed Zakaria joins  Deep Dish  to explain why today's crises are the product of the international system and how the quality, not quantity, of government is part of the solution. Tune in for the next episode of Deep Dish on December 3, 2020.

President-Elect Biden faces a divided country and a deadlocked Congress when he takes office on January 20, 2021. Author Rebecca Lissner joins  Deep Dish  to argue that while there are domestic challenges, Biden also has a unique opportunity to reimagine the US approach to foreign policy and focus on openness, rather than dominance.

Two days after Americans voted, it's still too close to call the 2020 election. As the world waits, American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake joins Council President Ivo Daalder and Deep Dish host Brian Hanson to examine how the results – whenever they arrive – will affect US foreign policy, global relationships, and national security. 

Last Sunday ,  an overwhelming 78 percent of Chileans voted to replace the country's existing constitution after a year of large-scale protests  driven by social movements and  economic  inequality.   P olitical scientist Claudia Heiss joins  Deep Dish  to explain  what t o watch  for   during the two-year drafting process and  examine  whether wide-spread change is possible for Chile.

Democrats and Republicans are in different worlds when it comes to evaluating critical threats facing the United States and preferred foreign policy approaches, according to findings of the 2020 Chicago Council Survey. Council polling experts Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura join Deep Dish to examine how public opinion matches up with the candidates' perspectives and whether issues like China's rise,...

From Iran in 1953 to Syria in 2011, the United States has relied on regime change as a core facet of Middle East policy -- with mixed results. Author and former White House Middle East advisor and expert Philip Gordon joins Deep Dish to explain that while regime change is a tempting policy option, in the long-term it leads to high costs, unintended consequences, and the spread of instability.

This week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with new Japanese Premier Yoshihide Suga, signaling both Japan's importance to the United States and both sides' fear of a rising China, analysts argue.  Stanford University's Michael Auslin  and  Teneo  Intelligence's Tobias Harris  join  Deep Dish  to explain how the 2020 election could influence US foreign policy towards Japan and whether Suga has t...

Last weekend, fighting broke out in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region, reigniting a frozen conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.  The New York Times ' Andrew Kramer and Chatham House's Laurence Broers Join  Deep Dish  to examine what the conflict could mean for the region and Russia's broader competition with Turkey for power.

With just 10 years remaining to reach the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, COVID-19 has undermined much of the existing progress toward the ambitious targets. As the UN General Assembly takes place this week, BP's Trine Mong and McDonald's Francesca DeBiase join Deep Dish  to explain how their companies are making strides towards sustainability to support the SDGs and revolutionize t...

An unprecedented hunger crisis is looming as the world grapples with COVID-19, the global economic downturn, stark inequality, and fractured political relationships. But 10 years after the launch of the US government's Feed the Future program, USAID's Jim Barnhart joins  Deep Dish  to explain why there's still hope for eradicating hunger within this generation.

This year, the murders of Ahmaud  Arbery , Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and other Black people  drove mass Black Lives Matter  protests against  racial injustice demanding communities defund  the  police.  Princeton  University 's Laurence Ralph  and  the Council on Criminal Justice's Thomas Abt  join  Deep Dish  to explain why police brutality is not a uniquely American phenomenon and argue the...

COVID-19 has exacerbated our society's extreme inequality in access to healthcare, economic opportunity, education, and the rights that protect some but not others based on race. Economist Thomas Piketty joins Deep Dish to examine the ideas that drive persistent global inequality and the solutions he believes will produce a more equitable future.

Inspired by Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement, Thailand's youth organized mass protests to demand reforms from the culturally revered monarchy. Political scientist Pavin Chachavalpongpun joins Deep Dish to explain how social media makes these protests different than past movements and why the United States should see Thailand as a foreign policy priority when negotiating a rising China.

Decades of political corruption and financial crisis in Lebanon came to a head in early August when an explosion decimated much of the country's economic hub, Beirut. Carnegie Middle East Center Director Maha Yahya and the International Institute for Strategic Studies' Emile Hokayem join Deep Dish to examine the ongoing protest movement, Hezbollah's role in the crisis, and how a system built on se...

This week, US intelligence released a report examining the threat of foreign influence in the 2020 presidential election from China, Russia, and Iran. The Alliance for Security Democracy's Laura Rosenberger and Stanford University's Jacob Helberg join  Deep Dish  to discuss digital interference, misinformation, and data privacy within the lens of geopolitics.

August 6 marks the 75th anniversary of the first time nuclear weapons were used in combat, when the United States bombed Hiroshima and later, Nagasaki. Former Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall and Stanford University's Scott Sagan join Deep Dish  to examine nuclear weapons today and what Americans can do as arms control regimes falter, modernization programs move forward, and n...

This week, the Pentagon announced a plan to remove 12,000 troops from Germany, a key US ally, claiming the country was "delinquent" on defense spending. The Council on Foreign Relations' Mira Rapp-Hooper joins  Deep Dish  to explain why the alliance system is still essential for America's global leadership – but must be remade to meet the challenges of the 21st century. 

The United States and China are locked in a tense global technology rivalry with significant geopolitical and national security implications. The Council on Foreign Relations' Adam Segal joins  Deep Dish  to explain the battles between China and the US over products like Huawei and  TikTok , their role in US foreign policy, and why US allies are choosing sides.  

Mali's mass political  protests against  President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita escalated over the last few weeks, prompting the government to clash with protestors and dissolve the constitutional court. This week on  Deep Dish , the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Judd Devermont and the  Financial Times ' Neil Munshi explain why Mali's instability is a threat to Africa's Sahel region —...

Israel's long-time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to annex the West Bank on July 1, at least for now. Former Netanyahu foreign policy advisor Jonathan Schachter and Brookings' Tamara Cofman Wittes join  Deep Dish to examine the bigger story — how Israel's foreign policy has changed and the way the country's relationships will shape the future.

From the controversial 2016 Muslim ban to recent efforts to dismantle DACA, immigration has been a key issue for President Trump's administration — but the legacy of punishing immigrants extends throughout US history. Lawyer and author Alina Das joins Deep Dish to share the stories that give a face to decades of legislation criminalizing immigrants and what we can do to begin to fix the system.

A July 1 presidential referendum will determine if Russia's President Putin can remain in power until 2036. Investigative reporter Catherine Belton joins  Deep Dish  to examine the people that surround Russia's enigmatic leader – and the financial ties to the West that makes the Kremlin's dominance possible. 

Brazil is poised to overtake the United States for most total COVID-19 infections and deaths globally — but far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is preoccupied with politics and discredits the pandemic's risk and response. The Igarapé Institute's Ilona Szabó and the Financial Times'  Andres Schipani join  Deep Dish  to examine the implications of social, political, and economic turmoil in South Amer...

The murder of George Floyd and the US government's reaction to national protests on racial injustice have raised concern over the demise of US global leadership. University of Wisconsin-Madison historian Brenda Gayle Plummer joins  Deep Dish to examine what the United States must learn from our past in order to fix our foreign policy. 

Ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, China's plan to implement a restrictive new national security law in Hong Kong prompted the United States to end decades of a special relationship with the city. Jamil Anderlini, the Financial Times' Asia editor, and Ambassador Kurt Tong, former US Consul General in Hong Kong, join Deep Dish  to examine what this means for the US-Chin...