Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading fore...
Will Trump Actually Deport Millions of Unauthorized Workers?
Immigration was a top issue among voters in the 2024 U.S. election, with President-elect Donald Trump calling for the “largest deportation operation in American history.” And with the incoming administration expected to take action as soon as Trump returns to office, what are the possible ramifications of this policy? Edward Alden, author of the recent book When the World Closed its Doors: The COVID-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders, joins host Ravi Agrawal to share his insights.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Transcript: Will Trump Actually Deport Millions of Undocumented Workers
Edward Alden: When the World Closed Its Doors
Edward Alden: The Great Deportation of 2025
Howard W. French: The U.S. Can’t Afford to Be a Bad Neighbor
Christina Lu: What Trump’s Mass Deportations Would Mean for the U.S. Economy
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10 Conflicts to Watch
FP Live is joined by Comfort Ero, the president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, as she details the 2025 edition of “10 Conflicts to Watch.” From Sudan to Myanmar, Haiti, Ukraine, Iran, and beyond, why is the world facing so many crises at once, and how can it solve them?
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood: 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2025
Aaron David Miller and Lauren Morganbesser: Why the Gulf States Might Feature Prominently in Trump’s Foreign Policy
Raphael S. Cohen: China and North Korea Throw U.S. War Plans Out the Window
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Trump World
Pundits love calling President-elect Trump’s leadership “transactional.” But is that true? FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal shares his take in this audio essay from the upcoming print issue of Foreign Policy’s magazine. Take a listen.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Kori Schake: Why Biden’s Foreign Policy Fell Short
Raghuram Rajan: Isolationism Won’t Make Anyone Great Again
Adam Tooze: America Is Locked in a New Class War
Daniel W. Drezner: Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?
Ravi Agrawal: Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World
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Looking ahead to 2025
Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and the author of Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, sits down with host Ravi Agrawal to look ahead to 2025.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Fareed Zakaria Looks Back at 2024
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Inside Trump’s Defense Policy (Re-Air)
National security analyst and former Trump administration official Elbridge Colby joined FP Live earlier this year to share his take on what a second Trump term could mean for foreign policy. He was recently tapped to be the under secretary of defense for policy in the incoming administration. As such, he will be an integral part of Trump’s decision-making—making this episode newly relevant.
Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free):
Transcript: Decoding Trump’s Foreign Policy
Elbridge Colby, Mackenzie Eaglen, and Roger Zakheim: How to Trim the Defense Budget Without Harming U.S. Security (2020)
Elbridge Colby and David Ochmanek: How the United States Could Lose a Great-Power War (2019)
Elbridge Colby: How to Win America’s Next War (2019)
FP Staff: The Trump Transition Begins
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Each week, Foreign Policy Live will feature a substantive conversation on world affairs. Host and FP editor in chief Ravi Agrawal will be joined by leading foreign-policy thinkers and practitioners to analyze a key issue in global politics, from the U.S.-China relationship to conflict and diplomacy. FP Live is your weekly fix for smart thinking about the world.
Foreign Policy magazine subscribers can watch these interviews live and submit questions and suggestions by going to https://foreignpolicy.com/live/.
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