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Walter Russell Mead

MAY 27, 2004 Podcast

Power, Terror, Peace, and War

"We are creating new and ever more dangerous problems for ourselves simply by doing what it is that we like to do," says Walter Russell ...

Book "State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century" by Francis_Fukuyama

MAY 19, 2004 Podcast

State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

According to Fukuyama, we know less than we think we do about building political institutions, designing constitutions, and bolstering civil society in failed or weak ...

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environmentby James Gustave Speth

APR 22, 2004 Podcast

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment

Environmental lawyer James Speth recommends steps towards sustainability ranging from creating a world environmental organization with the power to make treaties with teeth, to encouraging ...

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003 by Itamar Rabinovich

APR 21, 2004 Podcast

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003

Itamar Rabinovich discusses the current Palestinian-Israeli "war of attrition" following the failure of Camp David and the Oslo Process.

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003 by Itamar Rabinovich

APR 21, 2004 Podcast

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003

Itamar Rabinovich discusses the current Palestinian-Israeli "war of attrition" following the failure of Camp David and the Oslo Process.

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948–2003 by Itamar Rabinovich

APR 21, 2004 Podcast

Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003

Itamar Rabinovich discusses the current Palestinian-Israeli "war of attrition" following the failure of Camp David and the Oslo Process.

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

APR 13, 2004 Podcast

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

Joseph Nye's concept of "soft power" has become part of the international relations lexicon. In this 2004 book talk, he argues that hard power alone cannot ...

The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership

MAR 25, 2004 Podcast

The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership

To prevail in the war on terrorism and other looming geo-strategic crises, says Brzezinski, America needs serious allies, not just "coalitions of the willing."

MAR 1, 2004 Podcast

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Coll spotlights the interactions among the CIA, Pakistani intelligence (ISI), Saudi intelligence, and other hidden networks (particularly al Qaeda and its affiliates) decades before 9/11/01.

MAR 1, 2004 Podcast

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Coll spotlights the interactions among the CIA, Pakistani intelligence (ISI), Saudi intelligence, and other hidden networks (particularly al Qaeda and its affiliates) decades before 9/11/01.