Interview
List of Interview articles
![A pencil illustration shows Gordon Sondland with his hands folded under his chin.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gordon-Sondland-Foreign-Policy-interview.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Advocate
Ukraine and the Europeans are vexed about how to deal with Trump. Gordon Sondland has a playbook.
![A pencil illustration depicts Jens Stoltenberg, in suit and glasses, gesturing.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jens-Stoltenberg-NATO-FP-interview-hp.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Steady Hand
Jens Stoltenberg has led NATO through a decade of war, chaos, and Trump. What comes next?
![An illustrated headshot of Doug Beck.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Doug-Beck-FP-interview-3-2_824fc0.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Bridge Builder
After more than a decade at Apple, Doug Beck is in charge of making sure the Pentagon doesn’t lose a tech race with China.
![An illustration shows British Ambassador to the United States Karen Pierce. Pierce is drawn in a photorealistic style from her head to her neck, whereas the lines of her shirt and jacket are merely outlined and unshaded. The illustration is on top of a gradient of orange to pink.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/United-Kingdom-ambassador-Karen-Pierce-FP-interview-article.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Optimist
Karen Pierce was the first woman to take up the U.K.’s seat at the U.N. Security Council, and likely the first person to do so in a feather boa.
![Illustrated portraits of Reps. MIke Gallagher, right, and Raja Krishnamoorthi](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/China-Committee-Mike-Gallagher-Raja-Krishnamoorthi-article.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Masterminds
Washington wants to get tough on China, and the leaders of the House China Committee are in the driver’s seat.
![An illustration of Nury Turkel, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nury-Turkel-FP-interview-site-3-2-–-1.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Witness
Why is global outrage about the Uyghur genocide muted? Human rights advocate Nury Turkel has some ideas.
![An illustration of John Bolton.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/John-Bolton-FP-interview-site-3-2-–-1.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Fighter
John Bolton was once the enfant terrible of the Republican Party. Is he now its conscience?
![Gerard-de-Graaf-FP-interview-site-3-2](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Gerard-de-Graaf-FP-interview-site-3-2.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Messenger
Gerard de Graaf is charged with making sure Silicon Valley plays by Europe’s rules—but Elon Musk isn’t answering his email.
![A drawing of Gina Abercrombie Winstanley, the State Department's chief diversity officer.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Gina-Abercrombie-Winstanley-FP-interview-site-3-2.png?w=800?quality=90)
The Reformer
From a cork-walled office at the U.S. State Department, diversity chief Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley reveals her plan to vanquish the oldest boys club.
![Finland's ambassador to the United States Mikko Hautala](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Mikko-Hautala-Finland-ambassador-FP-interview-site.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Russia Whisperer
Finland’s envoy to Washington once shared a sauna with the Russian president. Here’s what he thinks the West got wrong about Vladimir Putin.
![NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (R) and Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto (L) bump fists after holding a joint press conference after their meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Jan. 24.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/haavisto-stoltenberg-nato-finland.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Finland’s Foreign Minister on Why Helsinki Is Moving Toward NATO Now
Pekka Haavisto once spearheaded efforts to engage with Russia and broaden cooperation. Now he’s helping lead Finland toward NATO membership.
![Gen. Claudio Graziano after a visit to the national gendarmerie Carabinieri headquarters in Rome on Nov. 5, 2018.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/claudio-graziano-eu-defense.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Is an EU Army Coming?
Russia’s war in Ukraine is turning the European Union into a serious military player.
![Matt Zeller, U.S. veteran of the war in Afghanistan](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/matt-zeller-afghanistan-fp-interview-oriana-fenwick-illustration.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Escape Artist
In 2008, an Afghan interpreter saved Matt Zeller’s life. Now he wants to return the favor.
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‘Europe Runs the Risk of Becoming a Global Strategic Victim’
Retired British Gen. Richard Barrons warns that the United Kingdom and European Union can no longer simply rely on the United States for their security.
![Asad Majeed Khan speaks.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Asad-Majeed-Khan-GettyImages-1128709828.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Pakistani Ambassador: ‘Terrorism Is Our Concern as Much as It Is Your Concern’
Envoy says Washington and Islamabad now have a common interest in stopping the Taliban from exporting violence.