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Why Should We Care about the Indo-Pacific?

SeaLight Director Ray Powell announces a new podcast with former diplomat Jim Carouso in which they unpack current Indo-Pacific events through the practical lens of, "Why should we care?"
Ray Powell | APRIL 6, 2024
Why Should We Care about the Indo-Pacific?

Ray Powell

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I've just launched a podcast series with my friend Jim Carouso, a former U.S. diplomat and current Senior Advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. We're calling it "Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?"

Jim and I put this podcast together with an emphasis on offering practical insights into current events, hence "Why should we care?" We bring the perspective of foreign policy practitioners, as do most of our guests.

Our first two podcasts are up, including our introductory pilot and our first with guests Chris Johnstone and Dindo Manhit, in which we answer the question, "Why Should We Care About the U.S.-Japan-Philippine Trilateral Summit?

We invite you to subscribe! Here's a taste of what you'll get:

Ray Powell

Ray is the Director of SeaLight and Project Lead for Project Myoushu at Stanford University's Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. He's a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and was a 2021 Fellow at Stanford's Distinguished Careers Institute.

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