Foreign Policy Playlist

Each week, Foreign Policy’s Amy Mackinnon, will recommend one podcast from around the world, interview the host, and play an excerpt. This curated show is designed to help listeners interested in the things we are—great stories, compelling interviews, and cogent analysis on international affairs—sort through the overwhelming variety of podcasts out there and find the best ones. And occasionally you’ll hear audio from our own newsroom. FP Playlist replaces our flagship podcast First Person.

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The Ongoing Impunity of Mohammed bin Salman
U.N. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard on her investigation of the Khashoggi murder.
36 min
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Draft Episode for Mar 27, 2020
Waad al-Kateab’s film focuses on one of the hardest-hit cities in Syria’s ongoing civil war.
32 min
78
The Marie Antoinette of Shoes Returns
Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield on how Imelda Marcos engineered her second act in the Philippines.
31 min
79
Introducing: Don't Touch Your Face
From Foreign Policy, a new daily show about all things coronavirus.
19 min
80
Death of a War Correspondent
35 min
81
How Israel’s Netanyahu Uses Fear and Loathing t...
The Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer looks back at Bibi’s first general election campaign in 1996.
26 min
82
The Other Brexit
CNN's Max Foster on How Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Split From Britain's Royal Family
33 min
83
A Truce with the Taliban
Former U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan James Dobbins on a possible peace deal after more than 18 years of war.
30 min
84
The Filmmaker Who Took On Bolsonaro
An Oscar-nominated documentary examines Brazil's deep political fault lines
32 min
85
The President Who Played One on TV
Journalist Franklin Foer on the peculiar rise of Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine and his role in the Trump impeachment ordeal
33 min
86
Counseling John McCain
A former foreign policy advisor looks back at the 2008 presidential election campaign
33 min
87
The Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin
28 min
88
A Fateful Decision that Led to the 1979 Iran Ho...
Journalist David Kirkpatrick on how President Carter was pressured into letting the Shah of Iran into the U.S.
35 min
89
The Persian Puzzle: Iran, Iraq, and the United ...
Following the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Suleimani, we examine again what a trove of leaked intelligence cables tells us about Iran’s influence in Iraq.
26 min
90
The Truth About the U.S. War in Afghanistan
Former Pakistani ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani on how the Taliban won.
31 min
91
The Documentaries of 2019
On this episode, we look back at some of the documentaries we featured on the show in the past year.
28 min
92
The Books of 2019
On this episode, we look back at some of the books we featured on the show in the past year.
30 min
93
Corbyn and the Jews
How allegations of antisemitism in the Labor Party became a central issue in Britain’s election campaign.
23 min
94
An American in Mosul
Journalist Mike Giglio provides an eyewitness account of a key battle against the Islamic State.
34 min
95
Iranian Spy Games Revealed
What a trove of leaked Iranian cables tells us about Iran’s influence in Iraq.
26 min
96
Introducing I Spy
A new podcast from Foreign Policy featuring former intelligence operatives from around the world.
32 min
97
The Syrian Filmmaker Who Risked Her Life to Doc...
Waad al-Kateab’s film focuses on one of the hardest-hit cities in Syria’s ongoing civil war.
32 min
98
BONUS EPISODE: The Jerusalem Murder That Set Of...
Palestinian-Israeli filmmaker Tawfiq Abu Wael on the challenges of co-creating the HBO series Our Boys
16 min
99
The Jerusalem Murder that Set Off a War
An Israeli drama series on HBO about the 2014 murder of a Palestinian teen stirs compassion and controversy
24 min
100
And Now the Hard Part—How to Manage North Korea
Brookings senior fellow Jung H. Pak on why the United States has failed to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and what to do about it.
28 min