{"podcast":{"title":"The Foreign Affairs Interview","slug":"the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628","podcast_index_feed_id":5444628,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/foreignaffairsmagazine/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.foreignaffairs.com/","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/13951093/FAI_Logo_2023.jpg","author":"Foreign Affairs Magazine","episode_count":100,"summary":"Foreign Affairs invites you to join its editor, Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, as he talks to influential thinkers and policymakers about the forces shaping the world. Whether the topic is the war in Ukraine, the United States’ competition with China, or the future of globalization, Foreign Affairs’ weekly podcast offers the kind of authoritative commentary and analysis that you can find in the magazine and on the website.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628"},"episode":{"title":"Does Trump Have a Strategy? A Conversation With A. Wess Mitchell","slug":"does-trump-have-a-strategy-a-conversation-with-a-wess-mitchell","published_at":"2026-05-21T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628/does-trump-have-a-strategy-a-conversation-with-a-wess-mitchell","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628","url":"https://foreignaffairsmagazine.podbean.com/e/does-trump-have-a-strategy-a-conversation-with-a-wess-mitchell/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zaxsf2emti8everz/260518_FAI_A_Wess_Mitchell_v4_Mix6j4e4.mp3","summary":"Both of Donald Trump’s presidential administrations have prompted sharp debates about the direction of U.S. foreign policy. But how to discern a strategic logic behind Washington’s approach, and whether it’s even possible to do so, have been particularly vexing questions since Trump returned to the White House. A. Wess Mitchell helped shape these debates as assistant secretary of state in Trump’s first term, and he has been uniquely interested in shedding light on them since, including in a number of essays for Foreign Affairs. Dan Kurtz-Phelan spoke to Mitchell on Monday, May 18, about how he understands the strategy driving Trump’s second-term foreign policy, and where, after Trump’s meeting with Xi Jinping and with wars in Iran and Ukraine far from settled, he thinks that strategy should go from here. You can find sources, transcripts, and more episodes of The Foreign Affairs Interview at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/foreign-affairs-interview.","meta_description":"Both of Donald Trump’s presidential administrations have prompted sharp debates about the direction of U.S. foreign policy. But how to discern a strategic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3972,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628/episodes/does-trump-have-a-strategy-a-conversation-with-a-wess-mitchell/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-foreign-affairs-interview-5444628/does-trump-have-a-strategy-a-conversation-with-a-wess-mitchell.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}