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Karen DeYoung, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories, from Afghanistan to the upcoming German elections.

Ravi Agrawal, Catherine Philp, and Gideon Rachman join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Steve Erlanger, Nirmal Ghosh, and Halley Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Reporters from leading media outlets join the Council to discuss the Kosovo-Serbia relations, Japan, the Navalny poisoning, and much more.

Susan Glasser, Ryan Heath, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss what went wrong and what went right for US foreign policy after the September 11 attacks.

Journalists Karen DeYoung, Matt Kaminski, and Gideon Rachman joined Council President Ivo H. Daalder to discuss this week's emerging global stories.

Kim Ghattas, Bobby Ghosh, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Carol Giacomo of the New York Times, Stefan Kornelius of Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Edward Luce of the Financial Times joined Council President Ivo Daalder to analyze global news.

Matt Kaminski of POLITICO, Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times, and Carla Anne Robbins of the Council on Foreign Relations joined the Council’s Ivo H. Daalder to analyze global news.

The Washington Post's Karen DeYoung, The New York Times' Carol Giacomo, and Süddeutsche Zeitung's Stefan Kornelius join Brian Hanson to discuss global news.

Karen DeYoung, Steven Erlanger, and Bobby Ghosh join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Anton La Guardia, Catherine Philp, and Yaroslav Trofimov join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Stefan Kornelius, Catherine Philp, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Bobby Ghosh, Gideon Rachman, and Susan Glasser join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Kim Ghattas, Philip Stephens, and Julian Barnes join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Journalists from some of the world’s leading media outlets join Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss Russian bounties on US soldiers, what’s next for Hong Kong, and US isolation as travel bans exclude Americans.

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Deborah Amos, and Yaroslav Trofimov join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Ivo Daalder talks with reporters from some of the world's leading media outlets about the week's most important global affairs news.

Laura Barrón-López, Catherine Philp, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Ivo Daalder, James Harding, Gideon Rachman, and Carol Giacomo examine the week's most important global affairs news.

Ivo Daalder, Steven Erlanger, Susan Glasser, and Philip Stephens examine the week's most important global affairs news.

Council President Ivo Daalder discusses emerging global stories with The New York Times’ Carol Giacomo, POLITICO’s Matt Kaminski, and the Financial Times’ Philip Stephens.

Bobby Ghosh, Steve Erlanger, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Steve Erlanger, Bobby Ghosh, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Jamil Anderlini, Catherine Philp, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, Carol Giacomo of The New York Times, and Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times joined Council President Ivo Daalder analyze the week's global news.

Stefan Kornelius, Peter Spiegel, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top global news stories.

Karen DeYoung, Steve Erlanger, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

What role should the United States play in the Middle East after leaving Afghanistan?

Twenty years after the war began, the United States' forces will officially leave Afghanistan on September 11, 2021. What's the argument to leave and why has it taken so long?

Elizabeth Shackelford joins WGN 9 to explain why it's the right time for the United States to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict.

Bronwyn Bruton and Paul D. Williams join Deep Dish this week to explain what the United States is doing in Somalia and why al Shabaab is a target.

Ambassador David Scheffer shares his reactions on John Bolton's recent comments on the United States' relationship with Afghanistan.

Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay discuss their new book "The Empty Throne: America’s Abdication of Global Leadership"—a revealing look at Trump’s foreign policy.

After ten months of Biden in office, new public opinion data show Americans support most, but not all, of his foreign policy strategy.

Earl Anthony Wayne, a former US ambassador to Mexico, joins Deep Dish to discuss what can realistically be done about migrants.

Just a few weeks after announcing the exit, the United States is already making progress withdrawing troops and resources from the site of America's longest war.

The Council's Elizabeth Shackelford and Virginia Tech's Amanda Demmer explain how lessons from US military evacuations in South Sudan and Vietnam resonate with the current chaos in Afghanistan.

Experts Laurel Miller and Andrew Watkins join Deep Dish to unpack Afghanistan’s economic collapse.

The recent ICC arrest warrant for Putin has sparked global attention, but what about the children abducted during conflict?

Harvard University's Stephen M. Walt joins Deep Dish to explain America's foreign policy failures since the end of the Cold War.

Ryan Crocker, who served as a US ambassador, joins Deep Dish to discuss America’s relationship with Iran and Iraq.

Why are governments across Africa working with the Wagner Group and what does this mean for peace and stability on the continent? Elizabeth Shackelford and Federica Saini Fasanotti discuss.

Will Biden shift Saudi Arabia from a “pariah” to a partner – should he? Experts Martin Indyk and Sarah Leah Whitson join Deep Dish to discuss.

Pakistan's military leaders lauded the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan this week. But will Pakistan's domestic threats—from a shaky economy to a rise in domestic terrorism—threaten the country's stability as a result of new leadership next

Robert Ford and Tamara Cofman Wittes join the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Deep Dish podcast to dissect the Trump administration’s withdrawal from Syria.

"The Diplomat" is Hollywood's take on the foreign service. Deep Dish explores the significance with a career diplomat and TV producer.

Authors Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai join Deep Dish to discuss the relationship between Iran, Russia, and China.

The University of Chicago's Robert Pape joins Deep Dish to help us understand the right -and wrong- ways to end the United States' longest war.