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World Review: Taiwan Tensions, Iraq Elections, and Energy Geopolitics

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

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

Xi Jinping clapping his hands while speaking
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

World Review: Post-Merkel Germany, Huawei, Evergrande, and Global Energy

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

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

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Reuters
US Foreign Policy

World Review: AUKUS, Blinken's Grilling, and Germany's Elections

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

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

Secretary Blinken before Congress
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

Fixing Our Bureaucracy Would Have Saved Afghan Lives

In the News
The Hill
Elizabeth Shackelford

"It may be too late for many of our Afghan allies, but we owe it to those we failed before and those who serve us in the future to fix this broken system," the Council's Elizabeth Shackelford writes with immigration lawyer Craig Richardson.

Afghans show documents to US troops in Kabul
REUTERS
Migration

World Review: How 9/11 Shaped Our World

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

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.

Names on the memorial of the 9/11 terrorist attacks
Reuters
US Foreign Policy

We Are Still at War, and the Costs Remain High for Some

In the News
Chicago Tribune
Elizabeth Shackelford

"Years of mounting civilian deaths, with little acknowledgment, apology or recourse, have directly undermined our efforts to fight terrorism," writes Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford.

smoke with children in foreground
REUTERS
US Foreign Policy

20 Years Later: 9/11 In The Public Memory

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, new polling finds that Americans still see international terrorism as a critical threat.

Water showing skyscrapers in reflecting pool of at the 9/11 memorial in NYC.
Reuters
Public Opinion

Was a Responsible Exit Possible in Afghanistan?

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

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.

US troops afghanistan exit
REUTERS
US Foreign Policy

Food Security and Climate Mitigation as Counterinsurgency

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Global Food for Thought by Julia Whiting

If left unmitigated, hunger- and climate change-induced suffering in both Afghanistan and Haiti will likely exacerbate current political instability and conflict.

Afghan woman receives a box of food.
Reuters
Food and Agriculture

The End of America's Longest War

In the News
WGN Chicago
Ivo H. Daalder

Council President Ivo Daalder discusses the end of the war in Afghanistan with WGN's Paul Lisnek.

WGN-9 Chicago
US Foreign Policy