Deep Dish on Global Affairs

Syria, Libya, and Iraq are the latest in a series of contentious US interventions. Forced to choose between leaving other countries alone or trying to run the world—Americans choose both, says author and journalist Stephen Kinzer. On this week's Deep Dish, Kinzer and career diplomat Cécile Shea discuss intervention done well, done poorly, and how the intervention debate has endured since the Spanish-American war.

A flare-up of violence in eastern Ukraine following a call between presidents Putin and Trump has many wondering what's next in the highly combustible situation. On this week's Deep Dish podcast, former US Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst joins Russia expert Samuel Charap to analyze Putin's goals and the likely outcome of a shift in Eurasian geopolitics.

President Trump's executive order suspending new refugee admissions and blocking travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries has sparked protests across the United States and shocked the world. Ian Tuttle says Trump's order is mostly right on substance but wrong on rollout, while Robert Pape says Trump is making ISIS great again. Listen to this episode of Deep Dish to hear two leading voices describe what's at stake.

In the aftermath of President Trump's pullout of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, trade experts Gary Clyde Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Council senior fellow on the global economy Phil Levy talk with Council vice president of studies Brian Hanson about presidential powers in international trade.

Talk from the incoming Trump administration on Asia is rattling allies in the region. Council experts Cécile Shea and Karl Friedhoff talk with host Brian T. Hanson about the return on US investment in Asia, what America stands to lose from disengagement, and how China could fill the vacuum created by a US abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

Millions of people attended the funeral procession for former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. In the latest Deep Dish podcast, the Council's visiting fellow for Iran policy, Saeid Golkar, explains why Rafsanjani was so beloved and how his death may position hardliners and "conflictualists" to seize the initiative in Iran's internal and external affairs.

As the US election and Brexit vote showed, the relationship between cities and their surrounding areas is fraught with conflicting interests. Council Distinguished Fellow Dick Longworth and the Financial Times' Edward Luce talk about where this relationship is headed in the latest episode of Deep Dish.

For some, social integration is a new challenge caused by globalization and cultural change. For others, inequality and segregation have long been strains on civil society. In this episode, Michael Nutter, former mayor of Philadelphia, and Kamal Al-Solaylee, journalist and author of Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone), discuss social inclusion in the 21st century with Deep Dish host Brian T. Hanson.

Anything that surprises people about President-elect Trump shouldn't surprise them too much, says Chinese entrepreneur and 2016 Scholl Fellow Victor Yuan. In the latest Deep Dish podcast, Yuan talks with Council experts about the potential points of conflict and consensus between the next US administration and China.

Washington Post chief correspondent Dan Balz sits down with the Council's Ivo Daalder, Brian Hanson, and Richard Longworth to discuss how Trump redefined the debate on globalization and what the 2016 election exposed about the US identity and its role in the world.

Trade and globalization seem to have played an outsized role in this year's election. On this week's episode of Deep Dish, Council vice president of studies Brian T. Hanson sat down with experts Phil Levy, Dina Smeltz, and Diana Mutz to discuss.

Following Donald Trump's surprising win, Council vice president of studies Brian T. Hanson sat down with Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss how US foreign policy and the organizing principles of the world order are likely to change under a Trump presidency.

In a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, US Secretary of State John Kerry said that solutions to climate change were staring us in the face. In this episode of Deep Dish, Council vice president of studies Brian T. Hanson sits down with resident climate and sustainability expert Karen Weigert to ask her about the latest developments and solutions to this critical global issue.

What's behind this year's populist explosion? In the latest episode of Deep Dish, Council vice president of studies Brian Hanson interviews John Judis, author of The Populist Explosion, to put the year's political movements—from Brexit to Trumpism—into historic context. Hanson then sits down with Council President Ivo Daalder and Chatham House Director Robin Niblett to discuss the implications of populism for the established world order.

In the latest episode of Deep Dish, resident global economy expert Phil Levy sat down with Council Vice President of Studies Brian Hanson to discuss one of this election's biggest issues: The TPP and trade deals like it. Phil breaks down the use of trade in foreign policy, what happened to the TPP that put it in critical condition, and what its odds are for recovery.

Immigration and national security have been salient topics in this year's election, but until now they've been conspicuously absent from the presidential debates. With both topics set for discussion in the third debate, vice president of studies Brian Hanson sat down with Council immigration expert Sara McElmurry and polling expert Craig Kafura to discuss common sense immigration reforms that could find consensus during the next administration.

With the 2016 Chicago Council Survey of American attitudes on foreign policy in hand, Vice President of Studies Brian Hanson sat down with Council polling experts Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura before Sunday's debate to find out how American public opinion compares with what the candidates are saying in the latest episode of our new Deep Dish podcast.

Meet the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' new podcast – Deep Dish. From now until election day, Council experts Craig Kafura, Phil Levy, and Karen Weigert will be dishing on global affairs topics that are critical to the election and our understanding of America's role in the world. Their first slice is a discussion following Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard's speech at the Council this week – where is monetary policy heading and has it become political? Listen here.