Foreign Policy Live

As the United States and Israel attack military facilities across Iran, Tehran has been retaliating. But it has attacked Gulf countries more than it has targeted Israel. Why? And how will the likes of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates respond? Will it shift their geopolitical alignment away from the United States?

Regional experts Mina al-Oraibi, the editor in chief of the National, and Firas Maksad, a managing director at the Eurasia Group, join FP Live to share their perspectives.

Khalid al-Jaber and Omar H. Rahman: Security Alliances With the U.S. Have Made Gulf States More Vulnerable

David Petraeus and Clara Kaluderovic: The Drone Attrition Trap

Macdonald Amoah, Morgan D. Bazilian, and Jahara Matisek: The First 36 Hours of War Consumed Over 3,000 U.S.-Israeli Munitions

Firas Maksad: The Middle East Has Two New Rival Teams

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: The Iran War Is Jeopardizing the Entire Global Economy
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On Saturday, Israel and the United States struck Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tehran has been responding with volleys of missiles aimed at Israel—and also at several other countries in the region. How will the conflict end? How long can Tehran sustain this fight? Iran expert Vali Nasr joined Ravi Agrawal for an emergency episode that ran live on the afternoon of Monday, March 3. 

Daniel Byman: 6 Questions About Operation Epic Fury

Barbara Slavin: Death Comes to the Dictator

Ali Hashem: Iran Is Built to Withstand the Ayatollah’s Assassination

Alireza Nader and Nik Kowsar: Khamenei Is Dead. Who’s In Charge of Iran?

Amos C. Fox and Franz-Stefan Gady: Iran, Israel, and the U.S. Are Racing the Clock

Anchal Vohra: Iran’s Proxies Are Out for Themselves for Now

Emma Ashford: Trump Is Betraying His Base by Waging War on Iran
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As U.S. President Donald Trump considers a military strike on Iran, what are the options on his table? What will his military advisors recommend he should and shouldn’t do? David Petraeus has often been in the position of providing such advice to the White House, and he joins FP Live to explain what could happen in the coming days. Petraeus ran U.S. and allied forces in the Middle East as the head of Central Command (CENTCOM) and later ran the CIA. 

Plus, One Thing from Ravi on the fourth anniversary of the war in Ukraine.

FP Contributors: Four Years of War in Europe

Marc Lynch: Four Scenarios for a Postwar Iran

Arash Reisinezhad and Arsham Reisinezhad: What War With Iran Would Look Like

Ali Hashem: The United States Is Dangerously Misreading Iran

Ali Hashem: Iran Dangerously Misunderstands Its Situation

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s China policy often seems deliberately ambiguous. Is that a virtue or a flaw? Kurt Campbell is a longtime China watcher who rose up to run Asia policy under the Biden administration. He was the original architect of the so-called “pivot to Asia” during the Obama administration. He joins FP Live to discuss Trump, former U.S. President Joe Biden, and the world’s most important bilateral relationship.  

Plus, One Thing from Ravi on Trump’s Board of Peace.

⁠Aaron David Miller: Billions in Pledges Expected for Trump’s Board of Peace but Doubts Persist⁠

⁠Mira Rapp-Hooper and Ely Ratner: Washington’s Silence in Asia Is a Gift to Beijing⁠

⁠New York Times: On China, Trump Is Rolling the Dice on America’s Future⁠

⁠Foreign Affairs: The U.S.-China Crisis Waiting to Happen⁠

⁠A. Wess Mitchell: The Grand Strategy Behind Trump’s Foreign Policy⁠

⁠Craig Singleton: China Grapples with Trump’s Radical Use of Power⁠

⁠Lili Pike: Did Biden Get China Right?⁠
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Is the age of nuclear nonproliferation over? There are certainly worrying signs. New START, the main nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia, recently expired. China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal. Talks to bring Iran back to the negotiating table seem to be at an impasse. And one increasingly hears about the possibility of South Korea or Japan going nuclear. What can the world do in response?

Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, sits down with Ravi Agrawal.

Rebecca Lissner and Erin D. Dumbacher: The Pillars of the Global Nuclear Order Are Cracking

Decker Eveleth: The Real Risk After New START Isn’t Arms Racing

Fareed Zakaria: The Post-Cold War Nuclear Era Might Have Just Ended

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: An Oil Deal for Trump Can Mean a Nuclear Deal for Iran
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