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Diplomatic Immunity Podcast

Diplomatic Immunity Podcast brings you frank and candid conversations with experts on the issues facing diplomats and national security decision makers around the world.

Hosted and produced by ISD’s Director of Programs and Research, Kelly McFarland, Diplomatic Immunity features current and former officials, scholars and analysts for conversations on the most pressing international issues.

Diplomatic Immunity is the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy’s (ISD) podcast. It is supported by funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Bridging the Gap Initiative. Requests for episode transcripts should be sent to diplomacy@georgetown.edu.

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Lifeline: The Story of PEPFAR | Interview with Journalist John Donnelly

In 2003, President George W. Bush proposed spending $15 billion to fight AIDS in Africa — a program that would go on to save more than 26 million lives. Journalist…

Headlines in History | Iran's Forever War, US-Canada Trade Fight, and a Nothingburger China Summit

In the first “Headlines in History” since spring, Kelly and Tristan dig into the global stories that refuse to go away. Iran — Months into the conflict, there’s still no…

America Is Losing the Influence Game | Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau and the Bush Presidential Center

A former US diplomat breaks down why soft power matters more than ever — and why the United States is ceding ground to China and other adversaries. From polling data…

Historian Stephen Kinzer on the Empire, Roosevelt, and Mark Twain

In this episode of Diplomatic Immunity, Kelly is joined by historian and journalist Stephen Kinzer to discuss his book The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of…

Historian Beau Cleland on How the Confederacy almost Survived, King Cotton and Queen Victoria

What if the Civil War’s most consequential diplomacy didn’t happen in London or Washington — but in the back offices of Bahamian merchants, the shipyards of Liverpool, and the harbors…

Historian Amy Greenberg on The Mexican-American War: America's Forgotten Conflict

In this episode of Diplomatic Immunity, our host Kelly McFarland sits down with Dr. Amy Greenberg, professor at Penn State and author of A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and…

Historian Lindsay Chervinsky on the Monroe Doctrine & John Quincy Adams

In this episode of Diplomatic Immunity, host Kelly McFarland sits down with presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky, executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, to explore one…

Iran Talks, Hungary's Election Surprise & the Shifting Global Order 

In this episode, Kelly and Tristan break down two major stories shaping the world right now – Iran and Hungary. Topics covered: The opinions expressed in this conversation are strictly…

Historian Tyson Reeder on James Madison and the War of 1812

In this episode of Diplomatic Immunity, host Kelly McFarland sits down with Dr. Tyson Reeder, assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University and author of Serpent in Eden: Foreign…

Historian Frank Cogliano on the Jeffersonian Legacies

In this episode of the Road to 250 series, our host Kelly McFarland sits down with Professor Frank Cogliano of the University of Edinburgh to explore Thomas Jefferson’s foreign policy…