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Israel's New Government, Afghanistan Peace Process, US-Iran Confrontations

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.
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About This Episode

The New York Times' Carol Giacomo, Financial Times' Gideon Rachman, and the Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman join Council President Ivo Daalder to analyze Israel new government and the unlikely partnership between Gantz and Netanyahu; whether the Afghanistan peace process will solve the United States' longest war; how global strongmen are abusing or ignoring the COVID-19 emergency; and if tensions will escalate between the US and Iran. 

About the Panelists
Columnist and Editorial Writer, Chicago Tribune
Steve Chapman
Steve Chapman is a columnist and editorial writer at the Chicago Tribune.
Steve Chapman
Freelance Journalist
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Carol Giacomo was a member of The New York Times editorial board from 2007 to 2020 writing opinion pieces about all major national security issues including nuclear weapons, Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Prior to this role, she was a former diplomatic correspondent for Reuters in Washington for more than two decades. She served as a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics in 2020.
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Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
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Gideon Rachman is the Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator at the Financial Times. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington, and Bangkok.
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CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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