Episode 172: Agnès Marcaillou Leads the UN's Bomb Squad
Agnès Marcaillou is the director of the United Nations Mine Action Service. This is the UN agency that helps clear mine fields, defuse IEDs and clean up unexploded ordinance around the world. It is th...
29 Nov 201753min
Zimbabwe and the fall of Robert Mugabe, Explained
Zimbabwe has had exactly one leader in its entire 37 year history as an independent country. That was, until November 14th Robert Mugabe was deposed in an apparent coup. What happens next is still ver...
19 Nov 201736min
Can ISIS Face Justice for the Atrocities They Have Committed?
Over the last several weeks, ISIS has been systematically losing territory. Its last stronghold in Iraq, the city of Hawija, was liberated in early October. A few weeks later, ISIS' de-facto capitol i...
16 Nov 201730min
Episode 170: Peter W. Galbraith
Peter Galbraith helped uncover and confront two genocides. As a staffer in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1980s, Peter compiled evidence of Saddam Hussein's genocide against the Kurdish...
13 Nov 201751min
The Crisis in Yemen Takes A Turn for the Worse
Saudi Crown Price Mohammad bin Salman consolidated power in a pretty dramatic fashion by detaining would-be rivals and diminishing other power centers in the country. These moves coincided with an app...
8 Nov 201729min
How Trump's Radical Approach to "Sovereignty" is shaping International Relations
Donald Trump's approach to sovereignty is not unique in American history. There is a longstanding political tradition that seeks no compromise with the world and see's all interactions with allies and...
6 Nov 201725min
The International Relations of California
If California were a country, it would be the sixth largest economy in the world. Its population is greater than countries like Poland and Canada. So what happens in California can very much impact t...
2 Nov 201727min
Episode 169: Farida Nabouremba, Democracy Activist in Togo
Farida Nabourema spoke from an undisclosed location in West Africa, out of fear for her personal safety. Farida is a prominent Togolese activist and these are very tense times in Togo. Several people ...
27 Okt 201744min
