The Trialogue

Federico Petroni: Italy’s National Interests

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:58:34 +0000

Federico Petroni, senior analyst at Limes, Italy's leading geopolitical journal, joins the Trialogue to discuss Europe’s anger over the U.S. attack on Iran, NATO’s fraught future, Italy’s Mediterranean strategy, and its regional rivalries with France and Turkey,

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*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

Timestamps:

00:04:01 How the Iran War is Hitting Italy
00:11:16 NATO's Uncertain Future
00:15:30 Why Europe is Risking a Transatlantic Crisis
00:20:22 NATO's Real Purpose: Keeping Europe's Peace
00:22:15 Italy's Defense Priorities
00:24:39 Italy and the American Empire
00:28:44 The Libya Intervention and Its Aftermath
00:33:16 Turkey: Rival, Partner, or Both?
00:38:13 Italy's Mediterranean Strategy
00:47:27 Italy, China, and the Limits of Economic Openness

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Zhao Hai: What Would China Do?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:54:46 +0000

Zhao Hai, Director of the International Politics Program in the National Institute for Global Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, returns to the Trialogue to discuss the impact of the US-Israeli war with Iran, the state of US-China trade relations, the future of international institutions, and the prospects of stabilizing cross-strait relations, among other subjects.

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Timestamps:

00:01:22 Beijing's View on the U.S. War with Iran
00:06:09 China's Interests in the Middle East
00:13:06 China's Regional Strategy Going Forward
00:20:15 State of U.S.-China Economic Relations
00:41:43 The Taiwan Question
00:51:32 Ukraine Peace Prospects and China's Role
00:55:59 China-Europe Relations and the Atlantic Rift

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Mathew Burrows: Forecasting the Next World Order

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 6 Mar 2026 13:04:17 +0000

Mathew Burrows, program lead of the Stimson Center's Strategic Foresight Hub, returns to the podcast for a forward-looking conversation. We discuss global demographic decline, the energy transition, the promises and limits of AI, the future of the transatlantic relationship, and China's role in a multipolar world.

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Timestamps:

00:02:18 Demographics & the Aging World
00:06:02 AI, Automation, and the Labor Question
00:08:15 Can Population Decline Be Reversed?
00:12:40 Aging, Housing, and Intergenerational Tensions
00:15:38 Energy Transition, Renewables, and Nuclear
00:19:43 AI, Inequality, and the Future of Work
00:25:23 The Human Role in an Automated Economy
00:29:05 The Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
00:33:27 Europe Without the American Umbrella
00:42:01 China and the Multipolar World
00:47:07 Free-Floating Alignments and Global Order
00:50:41 Why Greater Eurasia May Be Best Positioned

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Curt Mills: Conservative Anti-Interventionism

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:52:48 +0000

Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative magazine, joins the Trialogue to discuss the evolution of anti-interventionist thought on the American right. In this conversation we cover the origins of American empire, the extent of U.S. global commitments, the future of NATO, competition with China, and the strategic direction of U.S. foreign policy in Trump’s second term.

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Timestamps:

00:01:37 The Origins of The American Conservative and Anti-Interventionist Conservatism
00:04:30 From Iraq War Dissent to “America First”
00:09:07 American Empire, NATO, and the Case for Retrenchment
00:29:19 Russia, Iran, and the Limits of Threat Inflation
00:38:08 China as a Peer Competitor and Managing Great-Power Competition
00:45:18 Grading Trump’s Second Term: Wars, Trade, and Immigration

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Trialogue Live: The Expiration of New Start

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 6 Feb 2026 10:00:00 +0000

The expiration of New Start on February 5 marks the end of over half a century of bilateral efforts to advance strategic arms control. On February 3, the Stimson Center and the Oppenheimer Project convened leading nuclear experts from the US and Russia to imagine what comes next. The American speakers were Scott Sagan (Stanford University), Rita Guenther (The National Academies), and Matthew Bunn (Harvard Kennedy School). The Russian side was represented by Feodor Voitolovsky (Institute of World Economy and International Relations), Dmitry Stefanovich (Institute of World Economy and International Relations), and Anton Khlopkov (Center for Energy and Security Studies). This episode was recorded as a live online event.

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Time Stamps:

00:02:20 Russia’s Position on New START
00:10:50 Extending New START Limits
00:16:26 Technology and Strategic Stability
00:21:09 Track Two Dialogues
00:24:54 NPT Review Conference and Iran
00:28:51 Russia on Iran and North Korea
00:38:40 Verification and Data Exchange After New START
00:45:31 New Russian Nuclear Systems
01:03:29 Future of Arms Control

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Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia’s Place in the World

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, returns to the Trialogue at the start of an already-eventful year to take stock of Russian strategy amid dramatic U.S. intervention in Venezuela, crisis in Iran, and negotiations over the future of Ukraine.

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Time Stamps:

00:01:23 – Reaction to Trump Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
00:08:25 – The Case of Venezuela
00:16:02 – Possible U.S. Intervention in Iran
00:23:56 – A Year of Trump 2.0
00:28:44 – The Role of Europe
00:32:28 – Russian Objectives in Ukraine
00:49:44 – Balancing US-Russia Relations & Ukraine War Aims
00:55:55 – World Order in 10 Years

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Zhou Bo: What China Wants

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Zhou Bo, a retired senior colonel in the PLA and a senior fellow in the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, returns to the Trialogue to discuss China’s calculations about recent events, including the release of the U.S. National Security Strategy, tense Sino-Japanese relations, the situation in Taiwan, and negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

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Time Stamps:

00:01:53 – First Year of Trump 2.0
00:05:59 – The Role of Tariffs
00:11:36 – Beijing’s Response to U.S. National Security Strategy
00:16:12 – Trump’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
00:19:52 – Current Sino-Japanese Relations
00:29:22 – Strategy on Taiwan
00:33:12 – Ukraine War Negotiations
00:37:49 – China’s Relationship with the EU
00:42:53 – Looking to the AI Future

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Kuiken and Hodges: The China Commissioners

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:01:45 +0000

Mike Kuiken and Josh Hodges, two commissioners on the congressionally appointed US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, join us to discuss the recommendations of the Commission’s 2025 annual report and the state of US-China relations more broadly.

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Time Stamps:

00:01:18 What is the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission?
00:04:39 The China Problem
00:14:17 A Challenge to the Democratic World?
00:17:41 The Axis of Autocracy
00:26:33 Biden-Era Framework
00:31:52 Policy Recommendations
00:47:42 Necessary International Partnerships

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Glenn Diesen: Will Europe Survive?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 7 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Glenn Diesen, professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and host of the Greater Eurasia Podcast, joins us to discuss the current state of affairs in Europe, including the West’s approach to the war in Ukraine, the future of integration on the continent, and the militarization of Scandinavia.

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Time Stamps:

00:01:23 Glenn Diesen’s Background
00:03:14 Interest in Russia
00:10:23 Return to Norway and Analytical Perspective
00:14:22 What is Scandinavia?
00:15:59 From Neutrality to NATO
00:22:47 The U.S. Position
00:27:38 The Future of Europe
00:38:28 Will the EU Survive?
00:43:52 Nord Stream
00:48:44 Competition in the Arctic
00:55:25 An Opening for China in Europe?

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Mathew Burrows: A Life in the CIA

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Mathew Burrows, program lead of the Stimson Center’s Strategic Foresight Hub, joins us to discuss his career in the CIA and the National Intelligence Council, where he was the lead author of Global Trends, a non-classified report released every four years as an aid to incoming administrations. We also discuss transformative global events of recent decades, the mechanics of predicting trends, and what policymakers often get wrong in confronting the world.

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Time Stamps:

00:1:36 Mathew Burrows’ Early Biography
00:5:03 A Job at the CIA
00:14:12 The Collapse of the Communist Bloc
00:16:41 Move to the National Intelligence Council
00:22:20 9/11 and the Intelligence Community
00:27:21 Snowden Saga
00:28:54 Global Trends
00:31:41 China Prescience
00:39:16 Trump Admin. & Death of Global Trends
00:48:09 Enter the Policymakers

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John Mearsheimer: A World Tour

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:44:29 +0000

John Mearsheimer, world-renowned scholar of international relations, joins us to discuss the state of play in the Middle East, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. We also examine the relationship between realism and morality, the nature of the China threat, and the origins of “offshore balancing.”

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Leonard Benardo: Reexamining the “Open Society”

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 3 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Leonard Benardo, Senior Vice President at the Open Society Foundations, joins us to discuss OSF’s emergence and evolution, defining values of open societies, and heterodox thinking for turbulent times.

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Time Stamps:

01:29 – Lenny Benardo’s Biography
05:20 – Origins of OSF’s Name and Mission
09:23 – The “Wild East” and OSF’s Work in the Former Soviet Union
16:55 – OSF’s Approach to Russia, Post-Soviet States, and Eastern Europe
18:53 – Conceptualizing Human Rights
22:06 – Western Foundations, Domestic Politics, and the Case of Hungary
25:01 – Tensions Between Nationalism and Liberal Universalism
30:14 – Dynamics of EU Expansion
36:36 – “Open Society” as a Concept Today
38:42 – Ideas Versus Action
47:45 – Lessons Learned for Approaching China
50:43 – Future of Transatlantic Relationship
54:28 – The Status of American Empire

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Zhao Long: Beijing’s Balancing Act

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:50:10 +0000

Zhao Long, Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Strategic and Security Studies in Shanghai, returns to the Trialogue to discuss Beijing’s perspective on a slew of recent high-profile summits, in the context of China’s complex relations with Russia, the United States, India, and North Korea.

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Time Stamps:

01:13 – Beijing’s Take on Alaska Summit
07:38 – China as a Guarantor in Ukraine?
11:54 – SCO Summit & China-India Relations
17:05 – SCO’s Role & Non-Western Banks
23:17 – Russian Energy & Power of Siberia 2
30:11 – Putin, Xi & Kim Meet on Victory Day
36:58 – A Series of Trilateral Relationships

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Samuel Moyn: Can Multipolarity Save Liberalism?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 5 Sep 2025 10:10:37 +0000

Samuel Moyn, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, joins us to discuss the philosophical underpinnings of liberalism, its role in international relations, and the possibility of a multipolar liberal order emerging in a period of U.S. decline.

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Time Stamps:

01:15: The Liberal Order in Decline
03:47: Features of Liberalism
08:51: Liberalism in International Relations
11:15: The Intellectuals’ Abandonment of Liberalism
16:58: The Roots of Neoconservatism
20:43: Liberal Internationalists, Human Rights, and Intervention
27:41: Decolonization as a Liberal Project
32:41: A Coming Liberal Multipolar Order?
43:35: The EU’s Position in the Emerging Order

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Jana Kobzova: Europe’s Take on the Alaska Talks

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:34:31 +0000

Jana Kobzova, Director of the European Security Program at the European Council on Foreign Relations and former foreign policy adviser to the president of Slovakia, joins us to discuss the European perspective on the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, the Washington meeting between Trump, Zelensky, and top European leaders, and the future of the war in Ukraine.

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Time Stamps:

04:21 Domestic Dynamics in Ukraine and Anti-Corruption Agencies
11:28 Europe’s Reaction to Shifts in U.S. Policy Under Trump
17:00 Origins of Alaska Summit
20:24 European Red Lines
27:42 Europe’s Take on Alaska Summit Outcomes
30:03 European Shock Over Trump’s U-Turn on Ceasefire
37:57 Any Evolution in Ukrainian and Russian Positions?
43:02 Trump Administration’s Objectives
48:05 European Goals: What is the Alternative to Russia’s Proposals?
57:13 Possibility of Putin-Zelensky Meeting

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Dmitry Suslov: Russia’s Take on Alaska Talks

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:05:20 +0000

Dmitry Suslov, Deputy Director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, joins us to discuss the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska and Russia’s expectations for a settlement in Ukraine.

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Time Stamps:

01:30 US-Russia relations heading into the summit
03:26 Limits to future US-Russia cooperation
08:42 Failure of American pressure on India, China, Brazil
13:42 Witkoff’s visit to Moscow
17:07 Why Alaska?
19:31 Security guarantees
35:58 Russia-NATO
38:30 Likelihood of a Putin-Zelensky meeting?
43:48 EU membership for Ukraine?
47:24 “Denazification"

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Victoria Panova: Russia and BRICS

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:06:27 +0000

Victoria Panova, Vice Rector of HSE and Head of Russia’s BRICS Expert Council, joins us to discuss the history of BRICS, Russia’s attitude toward the association, and the differences between BRICS and other international formats, such as the G7 and the G20.

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Time Stamps:

02:01 Russia and the G7/G8
08:35 Origins of BRICS
09:50 Primakov and the idea of RIC
16:36 First meetings of BRIC in Russia
18:52 Adding South Africa to BRICS
21:34 China-India tensions
24:04 Changes in BRICS over the last 15 years
29:27 Global South, Global East, Global Majority?
31:31 How has the Ukraine war changed BRICS?
33:36 BRICS and the West
44:23 Could the US join BRICS?
45:55 BRICS expansion

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Curtis Yarvin (Part 2): The Empire of Love

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Sat, 2 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Curtis Yarvin returns to discuss the logic of the “empire of love” and the possibilities of an American “perestroika.” He calls on Washington to shutter its foreign embassies, withdraw from the UN, and dissolve the transatlantic relationship.

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Time Stamps:

01:38 What is the American Empire?
03:12 The centrality of the State Department
06:10 The significance of withdrawing from the UN
08:10 Eliminate US embassies
12:37 Recentering the national interest
14:10 Afghanistan as a self-licking ice cream cone
16:03 The importance of dominating outer space
18:41 End the pursuit of global order
19:52 We don’t care about your conflicts
22:23 Trade surpluses as the outdated assumption of the “empire of love”
25:10 Parallels with perestroika
30:30 Dissolve the transatlantic relationship

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Xiang Lanxin: Is Trump Good for China?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:00:34 +0000

Xiang Lanxin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center, joins us to discuss Trumpian “kayfabe,” the possibility of a grand bargain over Taiwan, and the US-Russia-China “grand strategic triangle,” among other subjects.

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Time Stamps:

01:27 China’s optimistic view of Trump 2
03:26 The promise of Trump 1
06:25 Danger during the Biden years
12:06 Trumpism as WWE
14:42 Trade negotiations
17:03 Grand bargain over Taiwan
23:52 Trump’s threat of 100% “secondary tariffs”
25:31 Iran-Israel
27:25 The US-Russia-China “grand strategic triangle”
31:15 China-EU relations
44:33 Modern-day McCarthyism
48:17 China doesn’t want to rule the world

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Sunjoy Joshi: The View from India

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:29:40 +0000

Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman of India’s Observer Research Foundation, joins us to discuss Indian philosophy, subtleties of the subcontinent, and India’s relations with the US, China, and Russia.

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Time Stamps:

01:29 What is the Observer Research Foundation?
05:21 Joshi’s government service
05:40 India’s vision of the world
11:50 The subcontinent
22:41 India-China
27:48 India-USA
43:57 India-Russia
52:57 BRICS

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Curtis Yarvin: The Empire of Love (Part 1)

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:04:43 +0000

Curtis Yarvin joins us to discuss the Anglo-American “empire of love,” the bohemian libertines of the ancien regime, Putin’s relative weakness, Xi’s advantages over Mamdani, and populism’s last chance.

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Time Stamps:

00:55 Alt-right? New Right? Modern Right?
02:36 Brief biography
06:26 From Westphalian order to Empire of Love
09:22 The tragedy of the French Revolution
11:04 Liberalism as an instrument of Anglo empire
17:55 Yarvin’s communist grandparents
20:51 Rebooting the US
23:00 The problem with populism
31:43 The potential strength of monarchy
34:41 Authority, popularity and prestige
40:30 The American Revolution is no longer sacred
43:08 Populism has one shot

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Samuel Charap: Russia Policy in Retrospect

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Samuel Charap, Distinguished Chair in Russia and Eurasia Policy at RAND, joins us to discuss US policy toward Russia since 2008, the war in Ukraine, and the prospects of a settlement.

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Time Stamps:

00:40 How did you get interested in Russia?
01:59 US-Russia relations since 2008
11:05 EU-Russia relations
15:41 The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
18:32 The Biden administration’s Ukraine policy
25:27 Should we have tried to negotiate sooner?
27:21 Has Trump made a deal more likely?
30:01 Is there a window for a deal in the fall?
33:16 How should negotiations be structured?
37:42 How far apart are US and Russian positions?
40:44 How to best combine carrots and sticks
44:04 Prospects of US-Russia normalization

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Maksim Suchkov: What Does Russia Want?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:37:03 +0000

Maksim Suchkov, Director of the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University in Moscow, joins us to discuss direct Russia-Ukraine talks, US-Russia relations, and Russia’s own “revolution of common sense”.

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Time Stamps:

01:08 Evaluate the Russia-Ukraine talks and the Trump-Putin phone call
03:17 Why does Russia oppose an immediate ceasefire?
08:08 What are Russia’s core objectives?
10:54 What kind of military caps does the Kremlin want to put on Kyiv?
13:56 Three scenarios for US policy
19:43 Russian and Chinese perspectives on Europe
23:05 Russia as a conservative “civilization-state”
26:00 A positive US-Russia bilateral agenda
35:27 How long will the Trump movement last?
42:40 Ukraine v US-Russia normalization
45:51 What kind of Europe does Russia want?
51:46 Predictions for the summer

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Emma Ashford: Where do American interests end?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

What is a foreign policy of restraint? Are the Anglosphere and Western Hemisphere key to American interests? Will the transatlantic alliance endure? Do Russia or China pose substantial threats to the United States?

Time Stamps:

01:38 What is the restraint movement in US foreign policy?
06:28 Is military overextension a product of liberal internationalism?
12:35 Restraint as a function of generational turnover
14:39 What do restrainers want in positive terms?
16:49 Progressive and nationalist visions of restraint
19:27 What is the influence of your Scottish origins?
20:42 A comparison of the British and American empires
23:10 The Soviet and Russian threat?
26:52 Advancing the US national interest as a Scot
29:06 The Anglosphere
33:08 A hemispheric foreign policy
36:46 Europe in or out?
40:44 Ukraine
54:42 China
1:02:12 Multipolarity

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Da Wei: Will the US and China Decouple or Rebalance?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 9 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Da Wei, Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, joins us to discuss tariffs, the prospects of a trade deal, Russia’s global role, and the coming multipolar order.

Time Stamps:

00:53 Was China prepared for Trump’s tariffs?
02:55 Does Washington want to decouple from China or rebalance trade?
08:49 Is the US improvising or following a plan?
11:57 What can China do to influence US policy?
15:49 Can China invest in the US?
20:46 Increasing domestic consumption in China
30:25 Can trade and Taiwan be linked?
35:20 Russia’s position in the world
43:26 What will multipolarity look like?

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Robert Agee: An American Businessman in Moscow

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Robert Agee, President of AmCham Russia, joins us to discuss American business in Russia since the 90s, who left and how after the start of the war in Ukraine, who suffered and benefited from Western sanctions, and the outlook for American (and Chinese) business in Russia going forward.

Time Stamps:

00:45 What is AmCham?
02:29 How did you end up at Xerox in Russia in the 90s?
04:58 American business in Russia until 2022
11:09 What businesses left after the start of the war and how?
21:12 Who benefited from the departure of Western companies?
25:11 The Chinese takeover of the Russian automotive sector
29:48 Business under sanctions
35:17 How changes should be made to US sanctions?
40:36 Is the Russian market actually all that enticing?
44:13 Should we let China dominate the Russian market?

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Dynkin and Voitolovsky: Welcome to Washington

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Alexander Dynkin and Feodor Voitolovsky, President and Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, join us to discuss their return to Washington, the war in Ukraine, and Sino-Russian relations, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:59 Returning to Washington for the first time since 2019
03:28 Will US-Russia relations improve under Trump?
09:39 The possibility of three-way strategic arms control among the US, Russia, and China
11:45 The future of bilateral US-Russia strategic arms control
15:00 The war in Ukraine
19:43 “Denazification” and Russian historical memory
23:18 Russia’s biggest mistake in Ukraine
25:46 Likelihood of future Russia-Ukraine reconciliation
29:57 Humanitarian issues related to a Ukrainian settlement
31:25 History of national borders in the former Russian empire
34:51 Sino-Russian relations

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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The Trialogue Live: April 8, 2025

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:00:00 +0000

This episode is a recording of a live event held online on April 8. Lanxin Xiang, Andrey Kortunov, and Emma Ashford joined me to discuss the state of theUS-Russia-China trilateral relationship.

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Reinhard Krumm: How Boxed In is Berlin?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:19:06 +0000

Reinhard Krumm of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung joins us to discuss Germany’s reversal on Russia and a new American Ostpolitik.

Time Stamps:

00:54 What is the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung?
02:00 How was Vance’s Munich speech received in Germany?
06:49 What is the future of the trans-Atlantic relationship?
16:45 Is Germany sovereign?
21:40 Nord Stream
26:17 German Ostpolitik since the 60s
31:23 Maidan and the Minsk agreements
39:22 Can Germany negotiate with Russia?
48:39 How real is the Russian threat to Europe?

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Christopher Caldwell: The Right since Reagan

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 4 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Writer Christopher Caldwell joins us to discuss the legacy of Ronald Reagan, the rise of a “New Right,” and the fate of the West.

Time Stamps:

00:56 What is the New Right?
12:53 Revisiting Reagan’s legacy
17:24 Trump’s revolution
20:43 US foreign policy since Reagan
25:55 Whither the West
33:43 Immigration in Europe and the US
38:10 Russia and China
42:16 The limits of American autarchy?

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Zhao Long: Is Beijing Worried about US-Russia Rapprochement?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Zhao Long, Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Strategic and Security Studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. We discuss the prospects of the US splitting Russia from China and China peeling Europe away from the US, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:55 Is Beijing worried about a US-Russia rapprochement?
24:36 Can China profit from a transatlantic rift?
34:24 What part will China play in a Ukraine settlement?
40:22 What lessons did Beijing draw from the Trump-Zelensky spat in the Oval Office?

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Anastasia Likhacheva: Surviving “sanctions from hell”

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Anastasia Likhacheva, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.

Time Stamps:

01:48 Studying sanctions since 2016
03:27 Nord Stream and the abrupt change in European attitudes after February 2022
6:22 Western companies leaving (and returning) to Russia after February 2022
8:52 Inability of both Western and Russian experts to correctly predict the trajectory of the Russian economy after the application of sanctions
13:40 “We started to pivot to the East before it was fashionable”
16:57 Sanctions don’t work if third countries don’t cooperate
21:23 The future of sanctions
24:04 Prospects of sanctions relief
32:10 Economic beneficiaries of external sanctions
34:24 Continued Russian tourism in Europe
35:46 A new generation of Russian elites
39:58 How do your students see the world?

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Fyodor Lukyanov: What in the world is the “world majority”?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 7 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, Professor at the Higher School of Economics, and Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club. What is it like to sit on stage with Putin? When did relations with the West go wrong? And what in the world is the “world majority”?

Time Stamps:

00:53 Moderating Putin’s Q&A sessions
06:24 Perestroika and the unresolved debate about Russia’s role
14:18 When did relations with the West go wrong?
20:58 How has your professional life changed since February 2022?
23:32 “World majority,” “multipolar world,” and “civilization state”
32:31 Islam, immigration, and downward demographic trends

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Andrew Roth: A decade of reporting from Russia

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Andrew Roth, Global Affairs Correspondent at The Guardian. We discuss the twists and turns of Andrew’s ten-year career as a reporter in Moscow.

Time Stamps:

03:12 Arrival in Russia in 2011
08:04 The 2012 protests
12:39 Foreign journalists in Moscow
23:02 Reporting in East Ukraine in 2014-16
35:25 Covering Zelensky
45:30 Edward Snowden
49:19 Evan Gershkovich
57:27 Washington’s China obsession

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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ZHOU Bo: How many military bases does Beijing need?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Zhou Bo, a retired senior colonel in the PLA and a senior fellow in the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University. We discuss China’s military presence in Africa, the Houthis, Ukraine, Taiwan, and the South China Sea.

Time Stamps:

00:44 Zhou Bo’s studies in England and Australia
03:23 Chinese military relations with Africa
07:04 The Houthis and the Red Sea
09:44 How many military bases does Beijing need?
21:19 Ukraine
26:31 Trump’s approach to China in his second term
30:03 Taiwan
39:20 The South China Sea

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Philani Mthembu: South Africa’s attitudes toward Russia, China, and BRICS

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Philani Mthembu, Executive Director at the Institute for Global Dialogue in Pretoria. We discuss the South African perspective on the war in Ukraine, China, and BRICS.

Time Stamps:

01:19 How many languages do you speak?
01:58 What is the purpose of the Institute for Global Dialogue?
03:29 What has changed since the ANC lost its majority?
05:12 To what extent are relations with the US and Russia shaped by the legacies of the liberation movement?
14:09 South African reaction to Ukraine’s rejection of its Soviet past
15:36 What is the South African attitude toward the war in Ukraine?
28:00 How is China perceived in South Africa?
36:46 Philani’s experience as a student in China
42:12 South Africa’s vision for BRICS
48:26 What is the logic of BRICS expansion?
53:20 How does BRICS seek to reform the international financial architecture?

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Dmitry Stefanovich: Nuclear deterrence during the war in Ukraine

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Dmitry Stefanovich, a research fellow at the Center for International Security at the Russian Academy of Sciences. We discuss recent revisions to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, deterrence during the war in Ukraine, Russian red lines, and the evolution of Chinese nuclear policy.

Time Stamps:

00:01:39 Dmitry’s Odesa origins and involvement in the Sochi Olympics
00:04:08 Deterrence during the Ukraine war
00:08:39 When were we closest to nuclear use?
00:11:30 Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine
00:20:05 US nuclear doctrine in the first Trump administration
00:26:05 What is the point of nuclear doctrines?
00:29:27 Karaganov and the Russian domestic debate about nuclear use
00:33:32 US and Russian mutual misperceptions
00:36:10 Russian red lines
00:40:42 China’s nuclear policy

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

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Daniel Bessner: The last days of liberal empire?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 3 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Daniel Bessner, Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington and non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. We discuss Trump, American empire, Washington’s Asian fixation, and the possibility of “mutual ruin of the contending classes” among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:01:12 Childhood interest in history
00:03:45 The US foreign policy ecosystem and the effectiveness of the Quincy intervention
00:06:48 Progressive foreign policy during Trump part two
00:09:30 Marxism and other influences
00:10:58 Origins of the American empire
00:11:56 The US was never isolationist
00:13:32 The US v other British settler colonies
00:14:54 Trump isn’t fascist, he’s a 1980s New Yorker
00:17:37 Has the state become too complex to control?
00:20:00 Why the US is an empire
00:21:34 American imperial decline and the “Pivot to Asia”
00:25:48 How are Russia and China seen from DC
00:27:23 Climate change and mutual ruin

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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ZHANG Xin: How real is Russia’s pivot to China?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Zhang Xin, Deputy Director of the Center for Russian Studies at East China Normal University. We discuss the history of Russia studies in the PRC, the Sino-Russian border area, and the logic of the US-China-Russia triangular relationship, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:00:51 Grad school at UCLA and interest in Russia
00:02:45 First visit to Moscow in 2005
00:05:04 History of Soviet/Russia studies in PRC
00:12:24 Impressions from most recent trip to Russia
00:14:35 Russian interest in creating new partnerships in China
00:17:47 Sino-Russian border area
00:24:10 Harbin
00:27:24 Resolution of Sino-Russian border disputes
00:31:33 The US-China-Russia Triangle
00:37:21 Difference in Chinese and Russian conceptions of Eurasian space
00:40:10 Global West - Global East - Global South

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Akram Umarov: Central Asia between Russia and China

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Akram Umarov, First Vice Rector at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy and Deputy Director of the Institute for Advanced International Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. We discuss Central Asian politics, Uzbekistan’s attitude toward the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the country’s relations with Russia, China, and the USA, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:01:00 Fluency in four languages as a child in Samarkand
00:02:54 Graduate studies in the West
00:06:43 Institute for Advanced International Studies
00:09:47 Japan’s interest in Central Asia
00:11:30 Relations among Central Asian countries
00:18:54 Shanghai Cooperation Organization
00:24:09 Uzbekistan’s relations with Russia
00:36:26 Uzbekistan’s relations with China
00:45:03 Will China and Russia compete in Central Asia?
00:48:03 Uzbekistan’s relations with the US

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Stephen Wertheim: Realism and restraint in US foreign policy

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Fri, 1 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. We discuss the origins of “isolationism,” historical hypotheticals, the United States’ relative interests in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, Ukraine and Taiwan, and an “America first” policy for the Democratic party, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:00:45 PhD in history and pivot to policy
00:07:38 Charges of “isolationism” from the 1930s through Trump
00:15:54 Should the US have done anything differently during WWII or the Cold War?
00:19:43 The collapse of the Communist bloc and American primacy unbound
00:25:00 Need to draw down in the Middle East
00:26:48 Let Europeans take greater charge of their own security
00:36:00 How should the US react to the rise of China
00:41:12 Taiwan and Ukraine
00:51:47 An “America first” policy for the Democratic party

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Dmitry Novikov: Russia’s Eurasian reorientation

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Dmitry Novikov, Deputy Head of the School of International Relations at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia. We discuss the difficulties of being an Americanist in Moscow, the sources of US-Russian conflict, and Russia’s future as a “Eurasian” power, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:00:38 What is like being an Americanist in Moscow right now?
00:04:22 Russian perceptions of US domestic politics
00:08:44 Russia’s “realist” understanding of international relations
00:10:51 Russia’s efforts to join the West
00:20:05 Russia as a Eurasian state
00:23:20 When did Russia begin to pivot East?
00:28:08 Russia as logistics corridor, security provider, and source of raw materials
00:39:17 Need for stabilization with the West
00:44:00 A new Russian identity?
00:49:13 The growing importance of Islam in Russia
00:53:00 The Cold War “lessons” that drive US and Russian elites

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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DA Wei: The advantages of limited decoupling

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 13:40:27 +0000

My guest today is DA Wei, Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University. We discuss Wei’s time at CICIR and Tsinghua, his recent visits to the US and Russia, Taiwan and the South China Sea, and the potential positives of partial decoupling, among other subjects.

Time Stamps:

00:00:49 What is CICIR
00:04:13 Tsinghua’s Center for International Security and Strategy
00:09:03 Impressions from recent trip to US
00:11:16 Potential consequences of Harris or Trump presidencies for China
00:14:26 Is chaos in the US good for China?
00:15:49 Sources of US-China competition
00:21:29 Impressions from recent trip to Russia
00:26:15 Comparison of US-China and US-Russia relations
00:30:35 Consequences of COVID
00:33:06 Potential positives of decoupling
00:40:0 Taiwan and South China Sea

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Charles Kupchan: Beyond isolationism and internationalism?

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 9 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. We discuss Charlie’s first visits to China and the Soviet Union, naiveté and NATO expansion in the 1990s, the dangers of the current conflict with Russia and China, the possibility of a new American foreign policy paradigm, global interdependence, and an endgame in Ukraine.

Time Stamps:

00:01:06 First trip to China in 1980
00:06:45 Trip to the Soviet Union and Poland in the early 80s
00:10:13 Naiveté in the 1990s
00:15:23 The dangers of current conflict with Russia and China
00:19:44 Pivot to Asia?
00:32:31 New US foreign policy paradigm?
00:43:10 Global interdependence
00:50:02 Maintain channels of communication with Russia and China
00:52:20 Endgame in Ukraine

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Alexander Pilyasov: The Russian Arctic

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Alexander Pilyasov, a professor of geography at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. We discuss the Russian Arctic, cooperation in the region with China, and growing competition with the United States. We recorded the conversation in Belgrade, following a “Trialogue” on American, Russian, and Chinese interests in the Arctic.

Time Stamps:

00:01:13 The Arctic in the Russian economy
00:17:38 Life in the Russian Arctic
00:23:56 Energy export from the Russia Arctic
00:26:52 Sanctions
00:32:41 China in the Arctic
00:40:29 Growing competition with the US in the Arctic

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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ZHAO Hai: Trump’s trade war and the war in Ukraine

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:47:57 +0000

This week, our guest is ZHAO Hai, Director of the International Politics Program in the National Institute for Global Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). We discuss US policy toward China, Sino-Russian relations, the war in Ukraine, and China’s vision of global order.

Time Stamps:

00:01:00 Zhao’s family connections to the PRC Navy
00:06:37 Zhao’s graduate study in Chicago
00:09:26 Chinese think tanks and the function of CASS
00:13:11 China’s reaction to Trump
00:22:57 China’s reaction to Biden
00:30:22 Sino-Russian relations before the Ukraine war
00:34:18 The war in Ukraine
00:47:52 China’s vision of global order

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Karl Eikenberry: Recollections of a retired general

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Karl Eikenberry, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, whose many titles include the defense attaché at the U.S. Embassy in China, Commander of the Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. Because General Eikenberry has had such a long and fascinating career and often occupied key roles at important pivot points in U.S. policy, we decided to devote the whole interview to an examination of his biography.

Time Stamps:

00:01:04 Childhood experience of the Cold War
00:06:42 West Point
00:10:21 Korea in the 70s
00:14:10 China in the 80s and 90s
00:35:11 NATO and the collapse of the Communist bloc
00:42:14 The Pentagon on 9/11
00:44:02 Afghanistan
00:51:51 NATO and Putin’s Munich speech
00:54:28 Afghanistan
01:10:34 Ukraine

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Andrey Kortunov: Four decades of Russian foreign policy

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week, our guest is Andrey Kortunov, the founding director of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Time Stamps:

00:01:00 Kortunov’s career before RIAC
00:09:22 RIAC’s origins and evolution
00:18:36 RIAC’s work on sanctions
00:25:40 BRICS and other international institutions
00:33:29 China-India relations
00:36:06 Russia-China relations
00:47:00 Russia-Western relations

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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XIANG Lanxin: China’s “rise” should not come as a surprise

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 4 Sep 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This week, we discuss China-US-Russia relations with Xiang Lanxin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and Professor Emeritus of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

Time Stamps:

00:01:17 The Xiang family’s four centuries in the Chinese military
00:07:38 Lanxin’s experience during the Cultural Revolution
00:18:00 Graduate school in the United States and the start of an academic career
00:23:01 A history of Western misperceptions of China
00:34:05 The recent decline in US-China relations
00:39:39 Russia’s relations with the West
00:47:55 Russia-China relations
00:51:56 Taiwan

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.

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Season 1 Trailer

the-trialogue-podcast@university.fm (Peter Slezkine) — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000

The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey presents the Monterey Trialogue podcast, a series that investigates the relationship among the United States, Russia, and China by engaging with experts from all three countries. At a time when even bilateral channels of communication have begun to break down, the Monterey Trialogue offers a new and necessary perspective on the defining geopolitical relationship of our time.

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