Can We Really End Extreme Poverty?
In September delegates at the United Nations will decide upon a set of Sustainable Development Goals to replace the Millennium Development Goals, which are expiring. The SDGs will almost certainly set...
14 Jan 201533min
Stories that will Drive the Agenda at the United Nations in 2015
2015 will be a big year for the United Nations. Richard Gowan of New York University and host Mark Leon Goldberg discuss the debates, events, and ideas that are going to drive the agenda at the United...
8 Jan 201524min
Name Your Favorite Foreign Policy Book of All Time
This is a special edition of Global Dispatches Podcast for the holidays! Leave me a voicemail at 202 780 5166 and tell me what book about the world inspired you the most? What book shaped your worldvi...
24 Des 20145min
How the Pope Helped Seal the Cuba Deal
Pope Francis and the Vatican played a key role in brokering the historic resumption of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States. This was high diplomacy, Vatican style. Father Thomas Re...
18 Des 201418min
Episode 45: Aaron David Miller
Aaron David Miller has been at the center of nearly every major Arab-Israeli peace initiative since the late 1980s. The historian and Middle East expert discusses what drew him to study the politics o...
14 Des 201437min
An Ebola Fighter Speaks
Time Magazine named Ebola Fighters as their 2014 Persons of the Year. Mark spoke with one of these health care workers, Dr. Joia Mukherjee of Partners in Health, literally as she was en route to Sierr...
10 Des 201417min
Episode 44: Samantha Nutt
Dr. Samantha Nutt is the founder of War Child, a group that assists children and their families in conflict affected countries around the world. Prior to founding War Child, Samantha Nutt was a humani...
7 Des 201443min
High Stakes Diplomacy at the Climate Change Talks in Lima, Peru
Delegates from around the world are in Lima, Peru for the latest round of international climate talks, known as "COP20." The climate change conference is not getting a tremendous amount of media atten...
3 Des 201417min
