Each week, Foreign Policy’s Amy Mackinnon, will recommend one podcast from around the world, interview the host, and play an excerpt. This curated show is designed to help listeners interested in the things we are—great stories, compelling interviews, and cogent analysis on international affairs—sort through the overwhelming variety of podcasts out there and find the best ones. And occasionally you’ll hear audio from our own newsroom. FP Playlist replaces our flagship podcast First Person.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 6 hours 56 minutes
recommended podcasts
On Travel Storytelling and Killing your Darlings
This week, Foreign Policy Playlist recommends: The Atlas Obscura Podcast. Host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Atlas Obscura founder and host of The Atlas Obscura Podcast Dylan Thuras on travel storytelling and why certain stories go untold. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Extremism and the German Military
Foreign Policy recommends: Day X This week, Foreign Policy Playlist plays a special episode of a new series — Day X by the New York Times. Host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Times Berlin Bureau Chief Katrin Bennhold on the infiltration of far-right extremism in Germany’s security services. Together, they take a deep dive into reporting on the subject and history of extremism in Germany. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices...
How Quality Child Care is Changing Lives for Women and Children in Kenya
This week we highlight FP's newest limited series: Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women or HER♀ for short. As FP Analytics highlights in its new report, “Elevating Gender Equality in COVID-19 Economic Recovery, there’s a dire global child care shortage, which the pandemic only worsened...
A Rhythmic Connection: Cuban Influences in Angola
Foreign Policy recommends: Hip Deep This week, Foreign Policy Playlist features Hip Deep, a podcast from Afropop Worldwide. This episode examines the influences — both political and musical — to come out of Cuba’s intervention in Angola. Filling in for Amy Mackinnon, FP Africa Brief writer Lynsey Chutel hosts Ned Sublette, one of the producers of the episode, as they discussed these influences on Angola. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page...
Ready, Set, Melt: The Race for Power in the Arctic
In this episode of FP Playlist, we feature an episode of Deep Dish, a weekly show produced by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. This episode focuses on the increasingly competitive nature between superpowers — and others — in the Arctic region. Host Brian Hanson interviews two scholars at the intersection of Arctic policy and the superpowers that wish to rule the day. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...
Ethiopia's Violence in Tigray
This week Foreign Policy Playlist features Ufahamu Africa, a podcast about life and politics on the African Continent. Hosts Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl introduce the podcast and one of their latest episodes which looks into the violence and unrest in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Kim speaks with Goitom Gebreleul a researcher in international and comparative politics of the Horn of Africa at Hatèta Policy Research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dispatches from Around the World
In this episode of FP Playlist, host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Pascale Harter, host of From Our Own Correspondent, a BBC staple and one of Amy’s favorite podcasts. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen on this page. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Course Correction: Hijab Bans and French Secularism
As a bonus this week, we share with you another episode from Season 2 of Course Correction.. Subscribe to Course Correction here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How John Kerry Plans to Tackle Climate Change
This week we feature Global Reboot, a new podcast from Foreign Policy in partnership with Doha Forum. Global Reboot explores how to rebuild a world upended by disruptive international events. FP’s editor in chief Ravi Agrawal engages with world leaders and policy experts to identify solutions to our greatest challenges. Host Amy Mackinnon speaks with Agrawal about the series' debut episode which features US Climate Envoy John Kerry who shares his plans for fighting climate change...
What Happened After El Chapo Was Arrested?
In our last Foreign Policy Playlist episode in May, we feature Vice News’ Chapo: Kingpin on Trial. It’s a miniseries that explores the impact of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán by sharing the stories of people who were caught up in the drug war between the United States and Mexico. Episode seven of Chapo follows the violence that followed after El Chapo was arrested and extradited to the United States...