Episode 42: Howard French
The journalist Howard French spent a career covering West Africa and China for the New York Times. He stumbled into journalism somewhat accidentally while living in the Ivory Coast and has reported fr...
24 Marras 201446min
The Geopolitical Implications of an Iran Nuclear Deal
The USA and Iran may remake the geopolitics of the Middle East with a successful outcome of a nuclear deal. Failure to reach a nuclear agreement between the USA and Iran will come with its own set of ...
20 Marras 201413min
Episode 41: Kori Schake
Kori Schake is a Republican foreign policy advisor who served in various positions in the George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush Administrations before joining the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008....
17 Marras 201449min
The Rohingya of Myanmar
The Rohingya are a religious and ethnic minority in Myanmar that faces horrid abuse and discrimination by Burmese authorities. As the politics of Myanmar lurches toward representative democracy, this ...
12 Marras 201420min
Episode 40: Tom Hart
Tom Hart was at the center of the biggest international development debates of the last 15 years. Now serving as the US Director of the ONE Campaign, Hart lobbied for forgiving the debt of the world's...
10 Marras 201448min
The Foreign Policy Implications of the U.S. Midterm Elections
The foreign policy implications of the U.S. midterms could be profound. How might Republican control of the U.S. Senate affect the on-going and sensitive nuclear negotiations with Iran? How would it i...
5 Marras 201417min
Episode 39: Erica Chenoweth
Erica Chenoweth is a pioneering academic whose ground breaking study on strategic non-violence demonstrated that movements that use non-violent tactics when fighting for the over-through of a regime a...
3 Marras 201444min
What Ebola Reveals About Americans' Understanding of Africa
The ebola outbreak and its importation to the United States has unleashed a wave of panic in the United States that reveals the paucity of Americans' knowledge and understanding of Africa. I speak wit...
23 Loka 201414min
