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Watching US Military Assistance in Africa Go up in Smoke

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Crashing the War Party
Coauthors

Elizabeth Shackelford and Emma Sanderson join the podcast to unpack a new report on why US-Africa policy isn't working.

Nigerian special forces and Chadian troops participate with US advisors in the Flintlock exercise
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US Foreign Policy

The Risk of Framing Geopolitics as Us vs. Them

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Jurist
Elizabeth Shackelford

Leaning into the binary distinction between autocracies and autocracies doesn't seem to serve US interests, Elizabeth Shackelford writes.

toy soldiers on a map
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US Foreign Policy

Food Systems Harm People and Planet - Here Is How We Fix That

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Devex
Ertharin Cousin

Food systems are just as culpable for the accelerating global planetary health, human health, and poverty crises as they are capable of generating the solutions necessary to fix them.

 Cattle are brought to the paddock for milking and watering.
ILRI/Sonja Leitner
Food and Agriculture

Diplomacy and Africa

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Security Dilemma
Elizabeth Shackelford

Elizabeth Shackelford joins the podcast to discuss conflict in Somalia, the coup in Niger, and tensions in Southern Africa.

Nigerien national guardsmen sit outside the customs offices in Niamey
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US Foreign Policy

Russia's War Crimes in Ukraine Have Devastating Consequences for Global Food Security

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Agri-Pulse
Dan Glickman

Russia intends to win its brutal offensive against Ukraine by any means necessary—even if those means condemn millions to hunger and starvation.

A dump track unloads grain in a granary in the village of Zghurivka, Ukraine.
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Food and Agriculture

Biden's Foreign Policy Looks an Awful Lot like Trump's

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

US foreign policy under Biden is being built on a foundation established by his predecessor, Paul Poast argues.

Biden stands in front of the NATO flag
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US Foreign Policy

Populist Candidate Javier Milei Offers Easy Answers to Argentina's Hard Problems

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Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

Milei’s appeal draws attention to an acute problem facing democracies around the world: Good governance and good politics don’t always align.

Javier Milei speaks during a rally in Buenos Aires
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Global Politics

Trump and The "Elites vs. The Deplorables"

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The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table
Daniel W. Drezner

What does wealth inequality have to do with support for former president Trump? Nonresident Senior Fellow Dan Drezner explores the issue.

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US Foreign Policy

GOP Candidates Spar over Funding the Ukraine War

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The Conversation
Jordan Tama

Will the Republican Party stand for international engagement, democracy and freedom? Or will Republicans adopt a narrower, inward-looking vision?

Republican presidential candidates stand onstage during the first Republican primary presidential debate on August 23, 2023.
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US Foreign Policy

Most Americans Don’t Know Much about Nuclear Weapons. But They Want to Know More

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Dina Smeltz and Sharon Weiner unpack results from a recent Council-Carnegie Corporation of New York Survey.

 a visitor to the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos, N.M. examines a replica of the gadget
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