Chain Reaction
Hosted by Larry Rubin and Aaron Stein and Nick Gvosdev and Aaron Schwartzbaum · FPRI
4.5from 67 ratings
- 201
- Episodes
- 78
- Transcribed
- 67
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About Chain Reaction
Chain Reaction is the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s flagship network of podcast series examining the political, security, economic, and social trends shaping our world. Throughout the year we are talking with experts about developments in Russia’s war in Ukraine, the new European security order, defense and geopolitical issues in the Baltic States, as well as current and future national security challenges and opportunities in the technology and space sectors. Join us each month for: Bear Market Brief, Behind the Front, Baltic Ways, Report in Short, and the Ties That Bind: NATO at 75 and Beyond. fpriinsights.substack.com (https://fpriinsights.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- FPRI
- Category
- news · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
78 of 201 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Translating Scholarship Into Statecraft
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Thinking About the Second Nuclear Century
23 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Architecture of Leadership
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Translating Scholarship Into Statecraft
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's a keen interest in your audience about the choices that you made in doing the work, the scoping of your research, the methodology, the data set, right, how you coded. Policymakers don't care about any of that. They're like, give me the bottom line, B-L-U-F, bottom line up front. So helping academics understand, skip like the first 20 minutes of your half hour talk and just get to the findings. And there are implications. And that's the second piece is it's not just the findings. It's what do the findings mean for you? Because without that, policymakers have a hard time kind of getting their hands around the importance or the relevance of the work. […]
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- Tamara Cofman Wittes
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- Rachel Whitlark
- John Tien
- Phil Wasielewski
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- 4.5 / 5
- 42 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.5 / 5
- 25 ratings
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- Engagement
- 92
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Larry Rubin and Aaron Stein and Nick Gvosdev and Aaron Schwartzbaum host the show. Published by FPRI.
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