Scouted

Welcome to Scouted!Our series highlights new, provocative work in international relations and foreign policy.In this podcast, I sit down with one of the field’s most creative and influential voices, Professor Amitav Acharya, to talk about his new book, The Once and Future World Order (Basic Books, 2025).Spanning five thousand years of global history, the book challenges our conceptions of world order—and our diagnoses for its future. Acharya shows that ideas often credited to the West—e.g., property

Welcome! This is the first episode in our Scouted series, where we spotlight cutting-edge work in international relations and foreign policy.In this episode, we explore how countries around the world are navigating great power competition not by choosing sides between the United States and China—but by playing both.We’ve heard warnings about a new Cold War and a world hardening into rival blocs. But not so fast. From Hungary to Vietnam, Papua New Guinea to the UAE, governments are forging