Our Podcasts
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JUN 9, 2008 • Podcast
Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
"Almost every single important extremist leader is living on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan," says Ahmed Rashid. Compared to this threat, Iraq is a ...
JUN 3, 2008 • Podcast
When Principles Pay: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Bottom Line
Geoffrey Heal examines how social and environmental performance affects a corporation's profitability and how the stock market reacts to a firm's behavior in these areas.
MAY 29, 2008 • Podcast
Olympic Mettle: Business, Civil Society, and Politics During the Beijing Games
An expert panel discusses the ethics of engagement with China in the context of the Olympics. What lasting positive or negative effects, if any, will ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...