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The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

OCT 18, 2006 Podcast

The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future

Vali Nasr argues that the Shia Crescent--stretching from Lebanon and Syria through the Gulf to Iraq and Iran, finally terminating in Pakistan and India--is gathering ...

The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South

OCT 11, 2006 Podcast

The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South

Professor Philip Jenkins argues that by the year 2025, Africa and Latin America will have the largest number of Christians in the world. According to Jenkins, ...

OCT 5, 2006 Podcast

Making Globalization Work

Economist Joseph Stiglitz offers new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate, including a plan to restructure the global financial system, ideas for ...

SEP 26, 2006 Podcast

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

The twentieth century was by far the bloodiest in all of human history. How can we explain the astonishing scale and intensity of its violence ...

SEP 20, 2006 Podcast

Faith and Politics: How the "Moral Values" Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together

Senator John Danforth argues that religious people should engage in politics, but, he notes, "there is a difference between engaging in politics and transforming politics ...

Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America

SEP 15, 2006 Podcast

Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America

International resentment and lack of legitimacy is the high price that America is paying for its imperial ambitions, says Josef Joffe. To repair the damage, ...

SEP 13, 2006 Podcast

Can Cultural Values Save the Environment?

Drawing from the book "Forging Environmentalism," which focuses on China, India, the United States, and Japan, a panel of experts discusses the social and cultural ...

SEP 12, 2006 Podcast

The J Curve: A New Way To Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

Ian Bremmer describes the political and economic forces that revitalize some states and push others toward collapse.

SEP 12, 2006 Podcast

Devin Stewart Interviews Ian Bremmer

"The J Curve is the nonlinear relationship between openness and stability," says Ian Bremmer, and it is important to recognise that a sudden increase of ...

Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network

SEP 7, 2006 Podcast

Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of A. Q. Khan's Nuclear Network

"Khan has wreaked havoc on attempts to restrain the spread of nuclear technology," says Gordon Corera. "He has lowered the barriers of entry for the ...