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Introduction
Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
Show Notes
In this special edition, CFR.org Editor Robert McMahon, CFR's Director of Studies Jim Lindsay and Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy Gayle Lemmon start off the summer with a list of books that they will be reading in the weeks ahead. Listen in for recommendations from their reading lists.
Gayle's Picks:
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, by Mihir Desai
Code Girls, by Liza Mundy
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, by Souad Mekhennet
"Halt and Catch Fire" on AMC
"Berlin Station" on EPIX
Robert's Picks:
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones
Redeployment, by Phil Klay
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann
"All Things Considered," produced by BBC Wales
Jim's Picks:
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, by Dean Acheson
Profiles in Courage, by John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorenson
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden
"Dunkirk," dir. Christopher Nolan (U.S. release date: July 21, 2017)
Concerns grow over the widening Middle East conflict after Iran launches three hundred ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones at Israel; European Union (EU) leaders discuss how to bolster aid to Ukraine amid an uptick in Russian attacks and the situation unfolding in the Middle East; India kicks off the world’s largest democratic election—spanning more than forty-four days—where the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to win again; and warming water temperatures cause a mass bleaching of coral reefs.
Congress returns from recess and grapples with contentious agenda items, including reauthorization of a section of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and a Ukraine aid package; Sudan enters a second year of civil war with more than half of the country’s population in need of aid and millions more displaced; and Ecuadorian police breach international law by raiding the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas.
Rwanda marks thirty years since its genocide against the Tutsis; U.S. President Joe Biden hosts the first trilateral leaders’ summit with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Philippines President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.; music fans celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Swedish pop group ABBA’s Eurovision win; and Ekrem İmamoğlu is elected mayor of Istanbul, in a rebuke to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party.