
Is maximum pressure or diplomacy better for inducing change in Iran?
09/03/22 • 54 min
Episode Outline
Ramifications from the Ukraine War are being felt globally. Not merely by intensifying the potential for conflict in other regions, but also by undermining peace and mediation efforts. This is the case with the Iran Nuclear Deal, or JCPOA, which has been at risk and remains controversial to many, including Jason Brodsky. Questions covered this time include:
- Since the Ukraine War began, how have sentiments changed around the feasibility and desire for a renewed deal?
- Is there a genuine appetite for the Iranian Deal or have they been hoping to squeeze the US and others for concessions?
- How should we assess the Russian role and positioning in negotiations given their activities and interests elsewhere?
- Were efforts to renew any deal futile, what would be the best alternative - a new deal or a new sanctions program?
For this episode, your host Pyotr interviews Jason Brodsky, Policy Director of United Against Nuclear Iran, or UANI, since 2016. Previously, he was Research Associate and Advisor to Aaron David Miller at the Wilson Center & Senior Middle East Analyst at Iran International. Recorded on Twitter Spaces, Jason then takes questions from the live audience who challenge him on some of his points and perspectives raised during his conversation with Pyotr.
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Episode Outline
Ramifications from the Ukraine War are being felt globally. Not merely by intensifying the potential for conflict in other regions, but also by undermining peace and mediation efforts. This is the case with the Iran Nuclear Deal, or JCPOA, which has been at risk and remains controversial to many, including Jason Brodsky. Questions covered this time include:
- Since the Ukraine War began, how have sentiments changed around the feasibility and desire for a renewed deal?
- Is there a genuine appetite for the Iranian Deal or have they been hoping to squeeze the US and others for concessions?
- How should we assess the Russian role and positioning in negotiations given their activities and interests elsewhere?
- Were efforts to renew any deal futile, what would be the best alternative - a new deal or a new sanctions program?
For this episode, your host Pyotr interviews Jason Brodsky, Policy Director of United Against Nuclear Iran, or UANI, since 2016. Previously, he was Research Associate and Advisor to Aaron David Miller at the Wilson Center & Senior Middle East Analyst at Iran International. Recorded on Twitter Spaces, Jason then takes questions from the live audience who challenge him on some of his points and perspectives raised during his conversation with Pyotr.
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Are we entering a new cold war or multipolar world order?
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The parallels between Taiwan & Ukraine have been and are continually being made, despite the seemingly obvious differences, largely because of their symbolism in the fight for democracy vs autocracy. And one person, who's devoted a particular amount of focus to the themes of liberalism, democracy, and governance is Francis Fukuyama. Questions he covered with Pyotr include:
- How does one compare or apply the theories of liberalism and realism in the current geopolitical climate?
- To what extent should we be concerned by the growing disassociation between liberalism and democracy?
- What role, if any, does the nation-state have in influencing the issue and unpredictabilities surrounding Taiwan?
- How much does the West balance supporting Ukraine to uphold democracy vs alienating or compromising domestic unity and exacerbating polarization/isolationism?
- Should there be a Southeast Asian NATO (re)created like the previous SEATO?
- What should the USA's prevailing grand strategy be in this new multipolarity?
For this episode, your host Pyotr interviews a world-renowned figure in the form of Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History & the Last Man, but moreover, a political juggernaut who has influenced the discipline, foreign policy, and approaches to areas like international relations, geopolitics, or democratization. Professor Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy, and former Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of IPE at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS.
His latest book, Liberalism & its Discontent released in May 2022. He also has a blog, Frankly Fukuyama, on American Purpose.
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Is there too much reliance on humanitarian organizations in crisis and warzones?
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With the war in Ukraine set to continue, the impact on humanitarian conditions will persist, especially as the weather worsens. Within all the chaos, humanitarian organizations, charities, and NGOs have been central in trying to support refugees, asylum seekers and IDPs, in states like Poland. Of these, the ICRC has been a leading group as special guest Sebastian Stachowski, and returning expert, Professor Steven Schrage explains. Questions covered include:
- How have the conditions changed as the war progressed?
- What has been the response of Ukrainians entering Poland and also local populations receiving them?
- How has the reputation of some agencies been affected, in light of actions by some like the Red Cross or Amnesty?
- Is too much pressure or expectation put on NGOs, without substantial support from bigger donors like the UN or EU?
- Why hasn't there been better coordination between NGOs or relevant stakeholders and what lessons might we take forward?
Episode 16 sees your host Pyotr rejoined by Professor Steven Schrage - of the John's Hopkins SAIS's FPI and former Deputy Assistant Sec of State, and special guest Sebastian Stachowski, a senior officer in the Polish branch of the ICRC, to discuss the evolving humanitarian crisis and responses more broadly from within Poland. Recorded in the Ukraine Sitrep Room - the 24/7 longest and largest audio room in history, the guests then took a string of questions from the live audience on Clubhouse.
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