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• Podcast
  • May 17, 2021
  Israeli-Palestinian conflict tests Biden team

  Pressure is building for President Joe Biden to do more to try to halt Israel’s assault on Gaza. Ilan Goldenberg, former chief of staff to the US special envoy for Israeli-Pal...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • May 16, 2021
  Biden Takes Muted Approach To Violence In Israel And Gaza

  Scott Detrow from NPR's Weekend Edition speaks to Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg about the escalating conflict in Gaza. Listen to the full interview fr...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • April 9, 2021
  Returning To The Iran Nuclear Deal Is Essential For Biden's Foreign Policy Agenda

  Ilan Goldenberg speaks with Franco Ordoñez about the importance of returning to the Iran nuclear deal for President Biden's foreign policy agenda. Listen to the full conversa...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • December 4, 2020
  How the US could return to the Iran nuclear deal

  The election of Joe Biden presents an opening to strengthen transatlantic diplomacy on Iran. Biden has already outlined his intention to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran, primaril...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • September 16, 2020
  Episode 118 | A Historic Day in Washington

  Following the formal ceremony marking the normalisation of relations between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain at the White House, Richard Pater speaks to Ilan Goldenberg, the Direc...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • September 11, 2020
  Looking Back At 9/11, Nineteen Years Later

  Today, we reflect back on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, 19 years ago. Nearly 3000 people died when hijacked passenger jets slammed into the World Trade Center and ...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • February 25, 2020
  Countering Terrorists From Afghanistan to Cyberspace

  From serving as a counterterrorism analyst for the Pentagon in Afghanistan to working on security issues at Facebook, Kara Frederick has spent her entire career confronting Am...

  By Kara Frederick & Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • February 18, 2020
  A Front Row Seat to China's Rise

  How have China's global ambitions sharpened under President Xi Jinping, and how should the United States respond? Dr. Kurt M. Campbell served in the Obama administration as th...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Kurt Campbell

• Podcast
  • February 11, 2020
  Grappling With the Costs of Combat

  Kayla Williams joins Ilan Goldenberg to discuss her time serving as an Arabic linguist in the U.S. Army and the human costs of armed conflict....

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Kayla M. Williams

• Podcast
  • February 7, 2020
  Politics of the US-Mideast Peace Plan

  Ilan Goldenberg, Director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security and Ellen Laipson, Professor and Director of the Center for Security Po...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • February 4, 2020
  Working Advance for the U.S. State Department

  When American diplomats travel abroad and meet with foreign leaders, who works behind the scenes to make sure everything runs smoothly? What negotiations go into preparing for...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Price B. Floyd

• Podcast
  • January 28, 2020
  Building the World’s Biggest Budget

  What do the Pentagon's decisions about military spending say about our priorities as a nation? What goes into the DoD's $700 billion budget each year? Former Pentagon official...

  By Ilan Goldenberg & Susanna V. Blume

• Podcast
  • January 24, 2020
  Ilan Goldenberg Recaps the Iran Crisis

  Ilan Goldenberg, Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Security Program at CNAS, joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the fallout from Qassem Soleim...

  By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • January 21, 2020
  Working National Security on John McCain’s Presidential Campaign

  Richard Fontaine spent years advising leading figures in American foreign policy, but working for the late Sen. John McCain was unlike anything he had experienced before. Now ...

  By Richard Fontaine & Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • January 17, 2020
  Stories from the Backchannel: Season Two Trailer

  Now more than ever, Americans are interested in the people working behind the scenes on consequential national security decisions. In Season Two of Stories from the Backchanne...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Richard Fontaine, Susanna V. Blume, Kayla M. Williams, Price B. Floyd, Kurt Campbell & Kara Frederick

• Podcast
  • January 9, 2020
  How Will Iran Punch Back?

  Last week, President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has promised rev...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • January 9, 2020
  What Comes Next Between Iran and the United States

  Ilan Goldenberg joins Mark Goldberg on the Global Dispatches podcast to discuss what's ahead in the latest round of heightened tensions between the United States and Iran. Li...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • August 2, 2019
  Ilan Goldenberg on Iran, Europe, and the United States

  CNAS Senior Fellow and Middle East Security Program Director Ilan Goldenberg joins Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend for an in-depth look at the current situation in the ...

  By Ilan Goldenberg, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Jim Townsend

• Podcast
  • June 24, 2019
  U.S. Officials Working To Build Up Maritime Coalition To Deter Further Iranian Attacks

  U.S. officials say they are trying to build up a coalition to deter Iranian attacks in the Persian Gulf. They are calling it the "Sentinel Program" to "help us have eyes on th...

  By Ilan Goldenberg

• Podcast
  • June 13, 2019
  Update: US blames Iran for Gulf of Oman explosions

  The US Secretary of State has blamed Iran for "unprovoked attacks" in the Gulf of Oman. Listen to Ilan Goldenberg's full conversation on BBC News....

  By Ilan Goldenberg