Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Przydacz | Live From the Aspen Security Forum
I caught up with Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Marcin Pryzdaz at the Aspen Security Conference in mid July. Poland is a front line state to the crisis in Ukraine and has been directly impacted by ...
25 Jul 202220min
Is the US Inflating The Military Threat From China?
Official and unofficial pronouncements from many sectors of the American foreign policy and political establishment routinely portray China as a major military threat to the United States --even claim...
21 Jul 202232min
Why There's a Resurgence of Armed Conflict in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
In November 2021, a rebel group known as M23 carried out a series of surprising attacks in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. By the spring and summer of 2022, M23 had captured even more te...
18 Jul 202228min
From "Pariah" to Partner: Why President Biden is Going to Saudi Arabia
Joe Biden is traveling to the Middle East for the first time as President, with stops in Israel, Palestine -- and most notably Saudi Arabia. As a candidate for president, Biden called the Saudi govern...
13 Jul 202220min
How to Stop the Global Food Crisis From Getting Worse | Sir Mark Lowcock
Food prices are soaring around the world, and along with it so are rates of food insecurity and the risk of famine. As my guest today, Sir Mark Lowcock explains, this is only partly due to Russia's i...
11 Jul 202225min
The Last Humanitarian Lifeline To Syria May Soon Be Severed | A view from Northern Syria and the United Nations
As the Syrian civil war escalated, the Syrian government began obstructing access to humanitarian relief in rebel held parts of the country. So, in 2014 the UN Security Council took the extraordinary ...
4 Jul 202236min
Hostage Diplomacy and the Case of Brittney Griner
Brittney Griner is an American basketball superstar. On February 17th, she was arrested in an airport outside of Moscow allegedly for possession of cannabis oil. She has been held in a Russian jail ev...
30 Jun 202231min
What Explains Turkey's Foreign Policy and Its Relationship With NATO?
Sweden and Finland have both formally requested to become members of the NATO alliance. To admit new members to NATO requires the approval of all existing NATO members and so far, Turkey is objecting....
27 Jun 202231min
