2026-04-16
1 小时 28 分钟I'm Dan Kurtz-Falen, and this is the Foreign Affairs Interview.
Even if America can intervene in these countries at relative low cost and do things like take presidents away,
Illegally, by the way, the sense is that the future for Latin America is not limited to the United States.
That if you want technology, if you want trade,
if you want foreign investment, the North Atlantic, the United States and Europe will not suffice.
That era of Asian states believing that the way to succeed is to become carbon copies of Western societies is dying.
And a new era is emerging.
Where none of these societies believe that they're going to succeed by becoming replicas of the West.
I'm Kanishk Tharoor, Deputy Editor of Foreign Affairs.
Dan is away this week.
The shockwaves of the ongoing war in Iran are being felt far and wide.
The continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sparked a global energy crisis,
one that could be accentuated by a U.S. Naval blockade.
Countries as disparate as Chile, South Korea and Zambia have been forced to take extraordinary measures
to deal with shortages and surging prices.
But the war's effects are not just material.
Washington's decision to attack Iran is accelerating a process already underway.
The receding of both the inspiration and the reality of American power.
That, at least, is the view of our two guests in this episode.
Matias Spector is a professor of politics and international relations based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.