Our Podcasts
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OCT 28, 2009 • Podcast
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists, and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
After spending years in the Kingdom talking to people in all walks of life, Robert Lacey gives us a modern history of the Saudis in ...
OCT 28, 2009 • Podcast
Smallpox--the Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer
Real-life hero D.A. Henderson reveals how a small but fiercely dedicated team under his direction succeeded in eliminating smallpox, a disease which had killed ...
OCT 23, 2009 • Podcast
Troops in Afghanistan and Fighting Foreign Wars
When war is a foreign insurgency, balancing human risks and possibility of success is a fundamental ethical dilemma for leaders. What do you think should ...
OCT 20, 2009 • Podcast
David Speedie Interviews Baroness Shirley Williams: A View from the United Kingdom on Transatlantic Relations
In a wide-ranging conversation, Baroness Williams discusses the Obama administration's foreign policy; the situation in Afghanistan and in Iran; U.S. and British politics, including ...
OCT 16, 2009 • Podcast
Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy
How can America build partnerships and coalitions to solve today's global problems? Will the nation continue to dominate world affairs, or are we fast approaching ...
OCT 16, 2009 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: Award Achievement or Encourage Potential: The Nobel's Purpose?
When choosing Nobel Peace Prize winners, should the Nobel Committee think of the future, using the Nobel's prestige to encourage peace-making? Or should they identify ...
OCT 16, 2009 • Podcast
Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
Rwanda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Darfur, Congo, and more--since World War II, genocide has caused more deaths than all wars put together. Goldhagen analyzes how and why ...
OCT 13, 2009 • Podcast
The Science of War: Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Michael O'Hanlon explains how military modeling and planning are done, taking as examples Desert Storm, the Iraq War, and the decisions to be made now ...
OCT 9, 2009 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: When Your Island Sinks
By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. What should be done about ...
OCT 8, 2009 • Podcast
The Idea of Justice
The traditional theory of social justice is out of touch with practical realities, says Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. Instead he proposes a theory of comparative ...