Red Sea Rivalries: A Conflict of Interests - Narrated by David Strathairn - Full Episode

More than one-tenth of global trade passes through a strait just 20 miles wide at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. Great Decisions examines a region where the world’s great powers can cooperate to create stability—or allow deepening rivalries to explode into conflict.

Executive Producer: MacDara King
Narrator: David Strathairn
Producer/Supervising Editor: David Heidelberger
Producer: Kaitlin Drape
Associate Producer: Deepshikha Vijh
Editor: Nam Tran

Guests:
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Alexis Crow, U.S. Advisory, Lead Geopolitical Investing Group, PwC
Elana DeLozier, Research Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Rush Doshi, Director, China Strategy Initiative, Brookings Institution
Shadi Hamid, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Payton Knopf, Africa Program Advisor, U.S. Institute of Peace
Rob Malley, President, International Crisis Group
David Miliband, President, International Rescue Committee
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute
Ben Rhodes, Dep. U.S. National Security Advisor (2009–2017)
Sen. James Risch (R-ID)
Amb. David Shinn, U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (1996–1999)
Yun Sun, Senior Fellow, Stimson Center
Susan Thornton, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2017–2018)
Amb. Frank Wisner, Former U.S. Ambassador to India, Egypt, the Philippines, and Zambia
Michael Woldemariam, Associate Professor of Int'l Relations, Pardee School, Boston University
Karen Young, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute