Three Questions
Three Questions
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Welcome to Three Questions—a podcast for a new era of global complexity and uncertainty. Three Questions breaks down key security, trade, energy, and technology challenges in an era of escalating competition among the world’s leading powers and rapid change in America’s approach to the world. Every two weeks, host Paul Saunders, President of the Center for the National Interest and Publisher of The National Interest, sits down with leading American and international experts to ask three focused questions that yield short and accessible perspectives on these critical issues. Three Questions cuts through the chaos to bring clarity on timely topics.
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The podcast emphasizes critical themes such as energy, security, trade, and technology amidst rising global competition, with episodes like 'Is America's Nuclear Renaissance in Trouble?' highlighting concerns about the U.S. nuclear energy sector's future and its implications for international standing.

Welcome to Three Questions—a podcast for a new era of global complexity and uncertainty. Three Questions breaks down key security, trade, energy, and technology challenges in an era of escalating competition among the world’s leading powers and rapid change in America’s approach to the world. Every two weeks, host Paul Saunders, President of the Center for the National Interest and Publisher of The National Interest, sits down with leading American and international experts to ask three focused questions that yield short and accessible perspectives on these critical issues. Three Questions cuts through the chaos to bring clarity on timely topics.
The ongoing peace negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine War have entered a delicate phase, with both Kyiv and Moscow signaling interest in talks even as fighting continues on the ground. Can Ukraine secure meaningful security guarantees without conceding territory? Is Russia seeking a genuine deal or merely buying time? And what would a workable endgame actually look like for a conflict that has reshaped global politics?
In this episode, Paul Saunders speaks with Andrew Kuchins, a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest in Washington, DC. Kuchins most recently served as president of the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Before that, he served as Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (2007-2015) and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2000-2003, 2006), where he also directed their Carnegie Moscow Center (2003-2005).

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