World Politics Review

In this week’s podcast interview, WPR ’s Elliot Waldman talks with Sheila Smith about the evolution of Japan’s military strategy and how Tokyo is reevaluating its security posture in response to a militarily ascendant China, a nuclear North Korea, and ...

In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Frederick Deknatel and Laura Weiss talk about a recent Pentagon report documenting the Islamic State’s resurgence in Iraq and Syria. They also discuss a controversial abortion ca...

As officials in Beijing plan to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, they face a host of pressing challenges. In this week’s interview on Trend Lines, WPR’s Elliot Waldman is joined by David Shambaugh for a conve...

In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Frederick Deknatel and Laura Weiss talk about Donald Trump’s decision to postpone a new round of tariffs on China, the challenges facing Guatemala’s new president, and Matteo Sal...

Earlier this month, a w hite supremacist gunman opened fire at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. In this week’s podcast interview, WPR ’s Elliot Waldman talks with Daniel Byman and Colin Clarke about the growing threat of right-wi...

In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Frederick Deknatel and Elliot Waldman talk about North Korea’s recent string of missile tests, and the less- than-forceful response from the Trump administration. They also discuss the pro- democ...

In this week’s Trend Lines interview, WPR’s Elliot Waldman talks with Isabel Pereira and Kathryn Ledebur about the different approaches to coca cultivation in Colombia and Bolivia, and what role the U.S. should play to support a more constructive and s...

In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Elliot Waldman and Laura Weiss talk about the ASEAN Regional Forum in Bangkok, the mounting criticism over Venezuela’s human rights abuses, and a cease-fire in Mozambique that en...

Sudan’s ruling military council and the opposition movement reached agreement on a power-sharing deal earlier this month, but key details have yet to be worked out. In this week’s interview on Trend Lines, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman is joined ...

In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Frederick Deknatel and Laura Weiss talk about Boris Johnson’s investiture as the U.K.’s new prime minister. They also take a look at U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s four-co...

In this week’s Trend Lines interview, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman talks with Jake Sullivan, a former senior national security aide in the Obama administration, about the damaging effects of Donald Trump’s foreign policy and the challenges Democ...

In this week’s editors’ discussion on Trend Lines, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Frederick Deknatel and Elliot Waldman talk about changes in the way policymakers and experts in Washington think about America’s relations with the Middle East, Russia, China and...

Ursula Von der Leyen was narrowly confirmed as the next president of the European Commission this week. In this week’s Trend Lines interview, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman discusses the challenges facing the new EU leadership with Heather Conley ...

In this week’s editors ’ discussion, WPR’s Judah Grunstein and Elliot Waldman talk about the resignation of Britain’s ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, and what it says about the state of the “special relationship” between the U.S. and the ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s description of U.S. migrant detention centers as “concentration camps” has provoked a fierce backlash. For this week’s podcast interview, Elliot Waldman talks with Andrea Pitzer about the migrant detention camps, the con...

In this week’s editors’ discussion, WPR’s Judah Grunstein and Elliot Waldman talk about whether recent actions by President Donald Trump signal a shift in his approach toward foreign policy. Judah and Elliot also discuss the recent China-Japan summit m...

In this week’s podcast interview, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman talks with The Washington Post’s Anna Fifield about her new book, “The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un,” which aims to peel back the la...

The Democratic Party held its first presidential primary debates this week. In their editors’ discussion, WPR’s Frederick Deknatel and Elliot Waldman talk about how President Donald Trump’s divisive approach to foreign policy could play an outsized rol...

In this week’s podcast interview, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman talks with former top U.S. diplomat Susan Thornton about the prospects for restarting U.S. trade talks with China, as well as nuclear negotiations with North Korea. They also discuss...

In this week’s editors’ discussion episode of the Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s editor-in-chief, Judah Grunstein; managing editor, Frederick Deknatel; and associate editor, Elliot Waldman, talk about the latest escalations in the United States’ tense stan...

In this week’s podcast interview, Barry Posen joins WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman for a conversation about how Posen’s idea of a U.S. grand strategy based on restraint would look when put into practice. They also discuss the Trump administration’...

In this week’s editors’ discussion episode of the podcast, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Frederick Deknatel and Elliot Waldman discuss the emerging threats to liberal democracy around the world, and whether these democratic systems of government can meet the ...

In this week’s podcast interview, WPR associate editor Elliot Waldman talks with Suzanne Maloney about U.S.- Iran tensions. They discuss the Trump administration’s economic pressure campaign against Iran, recent responses from the leadership in Tehran ...

Has the West passed the apex of its global influence, and will the future be shaped by a rising China? In this week’s editors’ discussion episode of the podcast, WPR’s Judah Grunstein, Frederick Deknatel and Elliot Waldman discuss the extent to which C...

Is Vladimir Putin the most powerful man in the world? How much control does he actually have over Russia’s bureaucracy? And is there a grand strategic vision underpinning his foreign adventurism? In this week’s podcast interview, WPR associate editor E...