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MAY 22, 2008 Podcast

A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East

Looking back over the last 30 years, historian Sir Lawrence Freedman analyzes the complex politics of the Middle East and shows how America's policy choices in ...

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy

MAY 21, 2008 Podcast

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy

Michael Klare warns that the world's diminishing sources of energy may create a new arms race between the U.S. and China. It is essential ...

Breathing the Fire

MAY 16, 2008 Podcast

Breathing the Fire

Kimberly Dozier, a veteran Middle East journalist who was critically wounded in a Baghdad bomb blast, talks about the difficulties of reporting from Iraq. It's ...

MAY 16, 2008 Podcast

The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

In the West the idea of governance by Sharia law is radioactive, says Noah Feldman, yet for many in the Muslim world it represents their ...

MAY 16, 2008 Podcast

New Media and Chinese Nationalism

Journalist Thomas Crampton looks at how Chinese nationalism is being expressed in new digital media, including what he calls "user-generated propaganda" on YouTube and anti-foreigner ...

MAY 14, 2008 Podcast

David Speedie Interviews Jack Matlock

Senior Fellow David Speedie interviews former U.S. ambassador Jack Matlock on U.S. relations with Russia: how they evolved, current policy problems, and what ...

MAY 6, 2008 Podcast

Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World

Drawing on his background at the World Bank and as the first post-Taliban finance minister of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani (and co-author Clare Lockhart) develops a ...

APR 29, 2008 Podcast

Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East

Quil Lawrence tells the story of the Kurds, the only Iraqi ethnic group that want the Americans to stay. Divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and ...

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

APR 28, 2008 Podcast

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

Americans ask, "Why do they hate us? Is this country pro or anti-American?" But what Khanna finds as he travels the world is that increasingly, ...

APR 15, 2008 Podcast

Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the Twenty-First Century

"There are not six million Tibetans in China," says Guy Sorman. "There are one billion." If the many Chinese who are not beneficiaries of economic ...