World Review: Blinken's First Big Speech, Saudi Arabia, Iran
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World Review with Ivo Daalder
Kim Ghattas, Matt Kaminski, and Stefan Kornelius join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode
On this week’s episode of World Review, Council President Ivo Daalder talks with The Atlantic’s Kim Ghattas, POLITICO’s Matt Kaminski, and Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Stefan Kornelius about US Secretary of State Blinken’s first foreign policy address, the US-Saudi Arabia relationship, recent airstrikes in Iraq targeting Iran, and new US sanctions on Russia.
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About the Panelists
Contributing Writer, The Atlantic
After twenty years as a BBC journalist, Kim Ghattas is currently contributing writer for the Atlantic. She hosts the People Like Us Podcast and is author of the NYT notable book of 2020: Black Wave. She has been published in the New York Times, the Daily Beast, Time, and the Washington Post, and she regularly speaks on Middle East issues and American foreign policy.
Editor-at-Large, POLITICO
Matt Kaminski is the cofounder of Politico Europe and former editor in chief in Washington. He’s now writing a column on global affairs for POLITICO.
Head of Foreign Policy Department, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Stefan Kornelius has spent over 20 years at Süddeutsche Zeitung. Throughout his career, he has covered Germany's Christian Democratic Party, the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl, and defense issues in Europe. His biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, entitled “Angela Merkel, the Chancellor and her World,” has been translated into 13 languages.
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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.