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MAY 31, 2018 Podcast

Why Ethics Matter in International Affairs

How can you ensure that ethics are a core component, not only of an international affairs education, but of graduates' performance once they go out ...

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MAY 24, 2018 Podcast

Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast, with Barbie Latza Nadeau

Rome-based journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau tells the horrifying story of the thousands of Nigerian women and girls duped into being trafficked to Italy, where they ...

Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. November 2017. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/37930256914">UK Department for International Development</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">(CC)</a>

MAY 22, 2018 Podcast

The Rohingya Crisis in Bangladesh, with BRAC's Muhammad Musa

Muhammad Musa is executive director of BRAC, which is working with the one million Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. He describes the problems ...

L to R: Nikolas Gvosdev, Adrian A. Basora, Maia Otarashvili. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

MAY 22, 2018 Podcast

Democracy Promotion in the Age of Trump

In this panel Adrian Basora makes a strong case for democracy as not only promoting American values but also serving U.S. interests, while Maia ...

American War Correspondent, Germany, 1915. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_War_Correspondent,_Germany_LCCN2014701695.jpg">Bain News Service/U.S. Library of Congress</a>

MAY 22, 2018 Podcast

The Living Legacy of WWI: The Legacy of American Press Censorship in World War I, with Charles Sorrie

The popular memory of WWI today was basically engineered through propaganda and censorship during the war itself, says Charles Sorrie. Those involved in any war ...

MAY 17, 2018 Podcast

Climate Change and the Power to Act: An Ethical Approach for Practical Progress

We are already living with climate change; and although countries have pledged to limit global warming to 2 °C, success seems highly unlikely. This panel explores ...

The Wall Street Bull. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/herval/51039207/">herval</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC</a>)

MAY 17, 2018 Podcast

Greed, Movies, and Capitalism with Ethicist John Paul Rollert

Every capitalist economy struggles with how to come to terms with greed, says John Paul Rollert, an expert on the intellectual history of capitalism. He ...

Pancho Villa Expedition. Column of 6th and 16th Infantry, between Corralitos Rancho and Ojo Federico, January 1917. <br>CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pancho_Villa_Expedition_-_Infantry_Columns_HD-SN-99-02007.JPEG">C. Tuckber Beckett/U.S. Department of Defense/Public Domain</a>

MAY 15, 2018 Podcast

The Living Legacy of WWI: Forgotten Aspects of the Western Hemisphere & WWI, with Richard Millett

"Unknown to the rest of America, we had one regiment of Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico which was totally integrated. The rest of the military ...

MAY 14, 2018 Podcast

From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia, with Michael McFaul

As Obama's adviser on Russian affairs, Michael McFaul helped craft the United States' policy known as "reset" that fostered new and unprecedented collaboration between the ...

MAY 10, 2018 Podcast

"End of an Era" in China, with Carl Minzner

"I'm not making an argument that Maoism is coming back; we're very far away from that. But the crucial thing to recognize is just what ...