Show Notes
The Trump administration is pursuing a transactional style of U.S. foreign policy, leaving friends and adversaries uncertain about what Washington wants. This week on The Spillover, host Rebecca Patterson and Jim Steinberg, dean of SAIS at Johns Hopkins University, unpack how Washington’s deal-making approach is playing out in Ukraine, Taiwan, AI governance, and the Iran war, and what could replace the U.S.-led global order that has persisted for the past eighty years.
Host:
Rebecca Patterson, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Guest:
James Steinberg, Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University
Mentioned on the Episode:
Stephen Sestanovich, “Trump’s ‘Diesel Deal’ With Russia Was Just the Start,” CFR.org
Thomas Graham “Trump’s Putin Overtures Deserve Criticism. But Outrage Won’t End the Ukraine War.,” CFR.org
Liana Fix and Daniel Fiott, “Europe’s Defense Dilemma,” CFR.org
Michael Froman, “The Victory of Asymmetry in the Iran War,” CFR.org
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