A Past Podcast Guest is Reportedly Tapped for a Top State Department Post: Listening Back on the Paula Dobriansky Interview
In the hierarchy of the State Department the Secretary of State, of course, sits on top. Below the Secretary of State is the Deputy Secretary of State and below the Deputy Secretary is the number thre...
27 Huhti 201847min
How the US Can Get Its Multilateral Groove Back
My guest today, Paul Stares, is the author of the new book Preventative Engagement. How America Can Avoid War, Stay Strong, and Keep the Peace. The book identifies what Stares calls "the American pred...
25 Huhti 201826min
Venezuelans are fleeing their country in record numbers. This is Latin America's worst-ever refugee crisis
Latin America is experiencing its worst-ever refugee crisis. By most estimates, several thousands of Venezuelans are fleeing the country every single day. In recent weeks the pace and scale of this r...
20 Huhti 201833min
The View From Europe
We are in a period of profound domestic turmoil here in the United States. I clearly don't need to run down the list of everything out of the ordinary that is happening in DC -- you know full well thi...
18 Huhti 201831min
Episode 190: Suzanne DiMaggio
Suzanne DiMaggio specializes in what is called Track Two diplomacy with countries that have limited or no diplomatic relations with the United Stats. In practice, this has meant that she's spent count...
16 Huhti 201849min
What happened to Iraq's Oil Wealth?
What happened to Iraq's oil wealth? That is the central question of the book: Pipe Dreams: The Plundering of Iraq's oil Wealth by my guest today Erin Banco. Erin Banco is an investigative reporter a...
12 Huhti 201825min
Episode 189: Steve Coll
My guest today is the renowned journalist Steve Coll. He is a staff writer at the New Yorker, dean of the Colombia School of Journalism and former president of the New America Foundation think tank. ...
5 Huhti 201844min
Bosnia is Vladimir Putin's Next Target
A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a former high ranking US diplomat whose work focused on Russia and Europe. I asked him where he thought Vladimir Putin might target next to sow instability and ...
4 Huhti 201825min
