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A weekly analysis of the complex policy issues driving the news.
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Joseph Majkut, director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, joins the podcast to discuss the intersection of AI and energy policy, AI’s huge energy requirements, and how to finance infrastructure development to meet these energy needs.
Watch CSIS’s recent event on the intersection of AI and energy policy here.
In this episode, we discuss what AI policy might look like under the second Trump administration. We dive into the first Trump administration's achievements (0:50), how the Trump campaign handled AI policy (3:37), and where the new administration might fall on key issue areas like national security (5:59), safety (7:37), export controls (11:27), open-source (14:04), and more.
Aspen Strategy Group executive director Anja Manuel joins the podcast to discuss issues surrounding AI and national security, and a new series of original papers and op-eds called “Intelligent Defense: Navigating National Security in the Age of AI.” The papers are authored by Aspen Strategy Group members including: Manuel, Mark Esper, General David Petraeus, David Ignatius, Nick Kristof, Steve Bowsher, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Yoshua Bengio, Senator Chris Coons, Kent Walker, Jennifer Ewbank, Daniel Poneman, Eileen O’Connor, and Graham Allison.
In this episode, Andrew Schwartz, Victor Cha, and distinguished guests discuss the Kremlin's motivations, the potential impacts on the battlefield in Ukraine, what North Korea is likely to receive in return, how Beijing may perceive this development, and more.
1Aram Nerguizian, CSIS senior associate and an expert on the Levant, joins the podcast to discuss the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah’s current political and military capabilities, and the impact of the conflict on the Lebanese people.
In this special episode, Andrew and Gregory C. Allen discuss the National Security Memorandum on AI the Biden administration released on October 24th, its primary audience and main objectives, and what the upcoming U.S. election could mean for its implementation.
Suzanne Spaulding, director of the CSIS Defending Democratic Institutions Project, joins a special crossover episode with CSIS’s Smart Women, Smart Power podcast to discuss election security, the role of election officials, and how to fight disinformation as early voting begins across the nation.
Charles Edel, CSIS Senior Adviser and Australia Chair, and Kathryn Paik, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Australia Chair, join the podcast to discuss their new Foreign Affairs article on how China is dominating foreign policy in the Pacific.
Read the article - The Peril of American Neglect in the Pacific
Seth Jones, President of the CSIS Defense and Security Department and Harold Brown Chair in Strategy, joins the podcast to discuss the data on increasing violence between Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran presented in a new CSIS publication.
Latest CSIS analysis on escalating war between Israel, Hezbollah, and Iran
CSIS's Jon Alterman, director of the CSIS Middle East Program, joins the podcast to discuss Iran's missile strikes in Israel, Israel's entry into Lebanon, attacks on Hezbollah, and more as the conflict in the Middle East continues to expand.
Tim Shriver, head of Special Olympics and host of the new podcast “Need a Lift?,” joins the show to discuss the importance of lifting each other up even as the world becomes more and more polarized.
CSIS’s Norman Roule, who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing significant programs relating to the Middle East, joins the podcast to discuss the war between Israel and Hezbollah and its wider implications for the region.
CSIS’s Eliot Cohen joins the podcast to discuss the latest in Ukraine’s war with Russia and Israel’s war with Hamas.
Navin Girishankar, president of CSIS’s new Economic Security and Technology Department, joins the podcast to discuss his experience working at the Department of Commerce, Bridgewater Associates, and the World Bank, as well as CSIS’s renewed focus on economic statecraft and technology to address 21st-century security threats.
Peter Bergen, Vice President at the New America Foundation, CNN national security analyst, and host of In the Room with Peter Bergen, joins the podcast to discuss the foreign policy of each presidential candidate ahead of the 2024 election.
CSIS Senior Vice President and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center J. Stephen Morrison joins the podcast to discuss the current surge of Covid-19, the newest variants of the virus, and the politicization of vaccines before the 2024 election.
CSIS’s Ryan Berg joins the podcast to discuss Nicolas Maduro’s claim that he won another term as Venezuela’s president, when the facts prove otherwise and the fallout is severe.
J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS Senior Vice President and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, joins the podcast to discuss the recent outbreak of a new, deadlier variant of Mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
CSIS’s Seth Jones and Ambassador Eric Edelman, vice chair of the Commission on National Defense Strategy and former U.S. Ambassador to both Finland and Türkiye, join the podcast to discuss the Commission’s newest report to Congress and the President and how to bolster U.S. defense in the modern era.
CSIS’ Norm Rule, who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing significant programs relating to the Middle East, joins the podcast to discuss Iran and what it may do in retaliation for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
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I have enjoyed this podcast for a while but, honestly, this episode was awful. The guest came across as an Israeli propagandist, making assertions that this was a "war" between "Israel and Hamas", as if we can't all see that this is a brutal massacre by Israel against the people and place of Gaza. the interviewer did not push back on ANYTHING that the guest said. I was so infuriated with this sycophantic trash that I couldn't finish the episode and may never return to the show. lost my trust.
this man lives in some kind of fantasy world concerning the actions of Israeli Jewish actions toward the Palestinians.. Palestinian leaders are not the only ones who need to take a pragmatic and realistic view of the situation before a peaceful solution can finally b discovered..
extremely broad spectrum of "white supremacy" conservatives? libertarians? or those who distrust big government.
your guest comes across as tedious pro censorship lefty.