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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 201417min
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 Nov 201446min
