In the Room with Peter Bergen

"In the Room with Peter Bergen" is a new Audible podcast from Peter Bergen, New America Vice President and Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the Future Security Initiative at Arizona State University. The show debuted on May 16th, 2023 and covers foreign policy and national security issues.

Listen on Audible, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Episodes Include:

2025

• January 28, 2025: Is A New Nuclear Arms Race Inevitable?
• January 21, 2025: How the CIA Got into the Venture Capital Game
• January 14, 2025: What Can You Expect From President Trump’s Foreign Policy?
• January 7, 2025: Trump Wants a Loyal FBI and Justice Department. Here’s How He Plans to Get it.

2024

• December 31, 2024: Was Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Actually a Success?
• December 24, 2024: Being a Spy Can Be Pretty Stressful. The CIA is Trying to Help. (Rebroadcast)
• December 17, 2024: How Do You End An Endless War?
• December 10, 2024: Snatching Mega-Yachts and Blacklisting Banks: Do Sanctions Actually Work?
• December 3, 2024: Defund or Unleash: What Does Effective Policing Look Like?
• November 26, 2024: The FBI’s Love Affair with Hollywood
• November 19, 2024: What is “National Security” Anyway?
• November 12, 2024: The Alt-Right Was Once Just on the Fringes. Here’s How it Went Mainstream.
• November 5, 2024: How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency (REBROADCAST)
• October 29, 2024: In One Michigan County There’s a Republican Fighting to Restore Faith in Elections
• October 22, 2024: The Mass Shooting that Everyone Saw Coming
• October 15, 2024: Can Exposing American Secrets Make You Safer?
• October 8, 2024: There’s a Conspiracy Theory for Just About Everything, So Should You Be Worried?
• October 1, 2024: Revisiting the First MAGA President
• September 24, 2024: How Modern Autocrats Keep Each Other in Power
• September 17, 2024: The General Who Told Trump What He Didn’t Want to Hear
• September 10, 2024: On the Trail and Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden (Rebroadcast)
• September 3, 2024: The Right-Wing Plan for Trump-Friendly Spies
• August 27, 2024: How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work? (Rebroadcast)
• August 20, 2024: Why Anti-Democratic Populists Keep Winning Elections
• August 13, 2024: Chicago Prepares for Protests at the DNC, Hoping To Forget 1968
• July 9, 2024: Does the Pentagon (or the Cops) Know What Side of the Bed You Sleep On?
• July 2, 2024: How Tiny Qatar Became a Global Player
• June 25, 2024: The One Way Out of an Israeli-Palestinian Forever War
• June 18, 2024: The Rise, and Maybe Downfall, of Liberal Democracy
• June 11, 2024: The Right-Wing Plan for Trump to Root Out the “Deep State Department”
• June 4, 2024: How Women Became Central to the Central Intelligence Agency
• May 28, 2024: India’s Modi Will (Likely) Get the Most Votes in Human History. Why?
• May 21, 2024: The Man Who Led NATO is Trying to Frighten You
• May 14, 2024: The View from a Newsroom in the Middle East
• May 7, 2024: 1-on-1 With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• April 30, 2024: Is America Headed into a New Cold War?
• April 23, 2024: What Happened When the Migrant Crisis Came to Chicago?
• April 16, 2024: Where Did the Migrant Crisis Come From?
• April 9, 2024: What UFO Conspiracies Have to do with Jan. 6th
• April 2, 2024: Counterterrorism Chief Says Hamas Attack and Gaza War Have Reshaped Terror
• March 26, 2024: Can the U.S. Just Pull Out of the Middle East?
• March 19, 2024: How Does the US Government Get Detained Americans Home?
• March 12, 2024: A Friendly Warning for America
• March 5, 2024: You Should Worry About A.I., But Not for The Reason You Think
• February 27, 2024: Did Oppenheimer's Atomic Bomb Make the World Safer?
• February 20, 2024: China is Stalking its Dissidents - Even on U.S. Soil
• February 13, 2024: Why America's Biggest Terror Threat is Homegrown
• February 6, 2024: Hunting the Bidens
• January 30, 2024: Being a Spy Can Be Pretty Stressful. The CIA is Trying to Help.
• January 23, 2024: Is the Pentagon Really Hiding Crashed Alien Spaceships?
• January 16, 2024: As the Arctic Ice Melts, Could a New Kind of Cold War Be Coming?
• January 9, 2024: Yes, the United States has a Space Force. Stop Laughing.

2023

• December 19, 2023: The Americans Who Would Be on the Frontline of a War in the Pacific
• December 12, 2023: Who Controls America's Past?
• December 5, 2023: How to Beat the Russian Army
• November 28, 2023: Could Prosecuting the Former President be Bad for American Democracy?
• November 14, 2023: Is Israel Prepared for this Ground War?
• November 7, 2023: Turning Bad News Into a Great Read
• October 31, 2023: A General and a Military Historian Say Israel-Hamas War is Most Challenging Conflict Since 1945
• October 27, 2023: Can the Next Mass Shooting Be Prevented?
• October 24, 2023: How Does the Russian Propaganda Machine Work?
• October 17, 2023: You Should Worry About A.I., but Not for the Reason You Think
• October 10, 2023: The Future of War
• October 3, 2023: The War That Americans Forgot, Iraqis Can't - and Iran Won
• September 26, 2023: 1-on-1 With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• September 19, 2023: How Hackers Stole Half of Americans’ Private Information - and Why
• September 12, 2023: Lessons From the Man Who Got bin Laden
• September 5, 2023: On the Trail and Inside the Mind of Osama bin Laden
• August 29, 2023: China, Critical Minerals, and the National Security Threat in Your iPhone
• August 22, 2023: How Did a 60-Year Old American Veteran Wind Up Fighting in Ukraine
• August 15, 2023: What if There Were a 9/11 Commission for Covid?
• August 8, 2023: How Was Afghanistan Lost to the Taliban - Again? Ep. 2
• August 1, 2023: How Was Afghanistan Lost to the Taliban - Again? Ep. 1
• July 25, 2023: What Would a Second Trump Presidency Mean for the World?
• July 18, 2023: What Makes a Great Authentic Spy Novel?
• July 11, 2023: Can the Fentanyl Epidemic Be Stopped?
• July 4, 2023: Michael Flynn’s New War
• June 27, 2023: What on Earth Happened to Lieutenant General Michael Flynn?
• June 20, 2023: Does Anything Scare War Correspondent Clarissa Ward?
• June 16, 2023: Decoding the Trump Indictment
• June 13, 2023: Who Is Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — and What Does He Want?
• June 6, 2023: Stop Keeping Your Password on a Sticky Underneath Your Keyboard
• May 30, 2023: What Should the U.S. Do About Havana Syndrome?
• May 23, 2023: The CIA's Secret Museum
• May 16, 2023: Can You Trust the Pentagon About UFOs?
• May 16, 2023: What Keeps General David Petraeus Up at Night?
• May 16, 2023: Will Vladimir Putin Get Away with War Crimes?