The Assistant Secretary of State on the Summit of the Americas
Brian Nichols, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs brings us up to speed on the most pressing issues on the agenda for the upcoming ninth annual Summit of the Americas. Income ...
2 Jun 202231min
Climbing the Summit
The Summit of the Americas is coming up in ealry June. Who will be there? What's at stake? Is it a big party for all the heads of state of the Western Hemisphere or is it for democracies only? John F...
27 Mai 202246min
We Are Going to Win
The night before the war begain, a calm confidence prevailed in President Zelensky's office. Peter Van Praagh, President of Halifax International Security Forum, recently returned from Ukraine where ...
19 Mai 202242min
Enchiladas and Golumpkis
Assimilation is better than integration, counsels Ambassador Michael Polt of ASU's Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab. Assimilation says: "I really want you to be a part of us." Assimil...
13 Mai 202242min
Tweeting Is Not Acting
Immigration expert Eric Farnsworth is back to parse what he describes as our unilateral disarmament diplomatically in the Western Hemisphere, due to bipartisan failure to compromise. "We're doing it ...
5 Mai 202256min
Encore: Desiree Cormier – Africa and Tijuana
Bringing Europe and China to Africa and Granola Bars to Jail - originally posted in March 2018. Enjoy!
28 Apr 202229min
Threats to the Foreign Service
Overseas and at home, Foreign Service officers face danger to themselves and their careers, from Benghazi to McCarthyism to the Trump presidency. John Naland and Harry Kopp discuss these risks and why...
21 Apr 202231min
Countering Genocide
War crimes and genocide, from the Holocaust of World War II to Ukraine today, and many other places on earth. Moved by his experience of the civil rights movement as a youth in the South, Ed O'Donnel...
14 Apr 202237min
