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Fault Lines

Fault Lines

A National Security Institute Podcast

National Security Institute

647 episodesEN

Show overview

Fault Lines has been publishing since 2019, and across the 7 years since has built a catalogue of 647 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 200 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence.

Episodes typically run ten to twenty minutes — most land between 9 min and 25 min — with run-times ranging widely across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language News show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 95 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 142 episodes published. Published by National Security Institute.

Episodes
647
Running
2019–2026 · 7y
Median length
11 min
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

Fault Lines, the National Security Institute’s flagship podcast, gets you quickly up to speed, three-times-a-week, on the national security and foreign policy debates shaking up America.Our regular cast of foreign policy experts includes NSI Founder and Executive Director Jamil N. Jaffer, NSI Advisory Board Member Lester Munson, and NSI Senior Fellows Morgan Viña, and Jessica Jones. Tune in to learn more about the issues dominating headlines and the news stories you may have missed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Latest Episodes

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Fault Lines Episode 635: Red Sea Rising: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the Houthi Offensive

Oct 7, 202615 min

Fault Lines Episode 634: B-1s Out of Britain

Oct 5, 202614 min

Fault Lines Episode 633: Rebound Diplomacy and the Pentagon's New Playbook

Oct 2, 202614 min

Fault Lines Episode 632: A Super Intelligence Summit

Sep 30, 202621 min

Fault Lines Episode 631: Strait Talk: Iran's Diplomacy Gambit and the Trump Ultimatum

Sep 28, 202616 min

Fault Lines Episode 630: UNGA, Multilateralism, and the Limits of Global Institutions

Sep 25, 202624 min

Fault Lines Episode 629: The New Fight for Greenland

Sep 23, 202619 min

Fault Lines Episode 628: Xi in Washington: Trade, Tech, Taiwan, and the Iran Wild Card

Sep 21, 202625 min

Fault Lines Episode 627: The Saudi Arabia Squeeze

Sep 18, 202619 min

Fault Lines Episode 626: Space, Deterrence, and the New Frontier of U.S. Defense

Sep 16, 202614 min

Fault Lines Episode 625: Pacing The Killer Robots — AI's Week of Reckoning

Sep 14, 202620 min

Fault Lines Episode 624: The Global War on Terror, 25 Years After 9/11

Sep 11, 202623 min

Fault Lines Episode 623: Graham's Gambit: Russia, Iran, and the Politics That Killed the Bill

Sep 9, 202614 min

Fault Lines Episode 622: The Barrel Gap & The Oil Deal— How Oil Has Taken Center Stage In The World’s Major Conflicts and How Long Before Prices Finally Skyrocket

Sep 2, 202652 min

Fault Lines Episode 621: Iran After the Strikes: Cut the BS

Aug 21, 202658 min

Fault Lines Episode 620: From Aid to Trade in Africa

Aug 14, 202644 min

Fault Lines Episode 619: The Latin American Pendulum

Aug 7, 202657 min

Fault Lines Episode 618: Trade War Evolution: U.S.-China Economic Strategy, Then, Now, and Next

Jul 31, 202649 min

Fault Lines Episode 617: The China Colossus: Understanding Beijing's New Mercantilist Economic Model

Jul 24, 202654 min

Fault Lines Episode 616: Anaconda or Armistice: The Squeeze on Tehran

Jul 17, 202652 min
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