Richard Haass on Foreign Policy in an Election Year

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As U.S. President Joe Biden increasingly turns his attention to the campaign trail, how will two major conflicts in Europe and the Middle East play into his foreign policy? How much will the White House adjust its thinking based on public opinion? Richard Haass is a former head of the State Department’s policy-planning team and led the Council on Foreign Relations for two decades. He joins FP’s Ravi Agrawal for a wide-ranging conversation about Biden’s foreign policy.

Former diplomat Richard Haass on Israel’s response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.

Haass, the Council on Foreign Relations’ president emeritus, on the generational split on Israel in the American electorate.

Haass explains how the lack of support for military assistance for Ukraine by factions of the Republican Party could shape larger geopolitics, like competition with China.

Richard Haass

President emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

Richard Haass is a former head of the State Department’s policy-planning team and led the Council on Foreign Relations for two decades.

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Ravi Agrawal

Editor in chief, Foreign Policy

Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy, the host of FP Live, and a regular world affairs analyst on TV and radio. Before joining FP in 2018, Agrawal worked at CNN for more than a decade in full-time roles spanning three continents, including as the network’s New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent. He is the author of India Connected: How the Smartphone Is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy.

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at a podium in the State Dining Room of the White House. The seal of the United States is affixed to the podium, and a gold-framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln is visible on the wall behind Biden's shoulder.

Biden’s Israel Stance ‘That of a Disappointed Uncle’

Former diplomat Richard Haass on the Middle East after Oct. 7

Insider  |  Ravi Agrawal

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