On this episode of American Prestige, headlines from around the globe.
Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan in the vehicle, chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council and commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces SAF, departs from the Presidential Palace in Khartoum, Sudan, on March 26, 2025.(Tariq Mohamed / Xinhua via Getty Images)
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On this week's news roundup from American Prestige: the IDF seizes more territory in Gaza (1:01) and the Israeli government forms a “voluntary emigration bureau” (5:19), while protests against Hamas break out in the Strip (7:53); there’s unrest in Turkey over the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor (10:27); a court in South Korea overturns the impeachment of PM Han Duck-soo (13:31); in Sudan, the military makes major gains in Khartoum and kills scores in a Darfur airstrike (15:17); South Sudan VP Riek Machar is arrested, stirring up further unrest (18:40); the proposed ceasefire is in limbo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (21:29); in Ukraine-Russia, talks make progress on matters including energy and the Black Sea (23:40); Trump pushes an expanded minerals deal with Ukraine (25:52); Canada schedules an April 28 election (28:20); Greenland is concerned by JD Vance’s visit (30:00); Trump unveils a “sixth generation” fighter, the F-47 (32:15); the Signal leak fallout involving Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg continues (34:37).
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On this week’s news roundup from American Prestige: The IDF seizes more territory in Gaza (1:01) and the Israeli government forms a “voluntary emigration bureau” (5:19), while protests against Hamas break out in the Strip (7:53); there’s unrest in Turkey over the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor (10:27); a court in South Korea overturns the impeachment of PM Han Duck-soo (13:31); in Sudan, the military makes major gains in Khartoum and kills scores in a Darfur air strike (15:17); South Sudanese VP Riek Machar is arrested, stirring up further unrest (18:40); the proposed ceasefire is in limbo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (21:29); talks between Ukraine and Russia make progress on matters including energy and the Black Sea (23:40); Trump pushes an expanded minerals deal with Ukraine (25:52); Canada schedules an April 28 election (28:20); Greenland is concerned by JD Vance’s visit (30:00); Trump unveils a “sixth-generation” fighter, the F-47 (32:15); the fallout from the Signal leak involving Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg continues (34:37).
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Danny and Derek are joined by Shadi Hamid, columnist at The Washington Post and author of The Case for American Power, to talk about American hegemony and Hamid’s argument for it as a morally preferable and potentially reformable force in international politics. They discuss Gaza and the crisis of liberal internationalism, democracy and self-correction, American decline, China and Russia, intervention and restraint, the Middle East exception, Libya and “humanitarian war,”and whether it is possible to separate the “good” uses of American power from the bad.
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Daniel BessnerTwitterDaniel Bessner is an historian of US foreign relations, and cohost of American Prestige, a podcast on international affairs.
Derek DavisonDerek Davison is a writer and analyst specializing in international affairs and US foreign policy. He is the publisher of the Foreign Exchanges newsletter, cohost of the American Prestige podcast, and former editor of LobeLog.