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NOV 17, 2017 Podcast

Marlene Laruelle on Europe's Far-Right Political Movements

What has led to the rise of far-right parties across Europe and how have they evolved over time? Is immigration really the main issue, or ...

Refugee camp in Rakhine State, Myanmar/Burma, September 2013. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/eu_echo/10015629093">Mathias Eick, EU/ECHO</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

NOV 16, 2017 Podcast

The Rohingya Crisis: "Myanmar's Enemy Within" with Francis Wade

Francis Wade, author of "The Enemy Within," a new book on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, explains the historical background to the persecution of the ...

NOV 15, 2017 Podcast

Trump, North Korea, China: War or Peace, with Gordon G. Chang

There is disturbing evidence that China is weaponizing North Korea, and it's time that Washington started asking Beijing some pointed questions, says Gordon Chang. The ...

NOV 14, 2017 Podcast

Elizabeth Economy on China, Climate Change, and the Environment

How does climate change play into Xi Jinping's larger strategy for China's economy and its role on the global stage? Xi has a vision for ...

NOV 9, 2017 Podcast

The Rise of Duterte in the Philippines, with Richard Heydarian

Duterte is part of an arc of populism in emerging market democracies such as Turkey and India, says author Haydarian, but unlike populist movements in ...

Graham Allison. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

NOV 8, 2017 Podcast

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? with Graham Allison

Thucydides is not saying that the inevitable frictions between a rising power and a ruling one will always lead to war, says Allison. The danger ...

NOV 3, 2017 Journal Online Exclusive

Collateral Displacement in War

Military strategists fail to consider collateral displacement in their in bello proportionality calculations, and that's a mistake.

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NOV 1, 2017 Podcast

Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities, with Kate Brown

Chernobyl is considered the greatest nuclear disaster of all time. But over decades America's Hanford plant and Russia's Mayak plant each issued almost four times ...

OCT 31, 2017 Podcast

Democracy and Its Crisis, with A. C. Grayling

Representative democracy in the UK has been corrupted by the three B's, says Grayling: blackmail, bullying, and bribery. There are similar problems in the United ...

OCT 30, 2017 Podcast

False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, with Steven A. Cook

Half a decade after Arabs across the Middle East poured into the streets to demand change, hopes for democracy have disappeared in a maelstrom of ...