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Shanghai, June 2018. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/46362496092">Trey Ratcliff</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

JUL 27, 2017 Podcast

Meredith Sumpter: The "G-Zero" World Hits Asia

"First and foremost, a G-zero is a world in which no one country has dominant power or can influence the international system of governance," explains ...

JUL 25, 2017 Podcast

General Donald Bolduc on the U.S. War in Afghanistan

In this inspiring interview, Brig. Gen. Bolduc discusses his time in Afghanistan and his assessment of the situation there as well as in Africa, where ...

JUL 21, 2017 Podcast

Alexander Klimburg on "The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace"

In the West we view cyber threats as largely a technical issue, while in Russia and China they see it in terms of propaganda, information ...

JUL 20, 2017 Podcast

Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"

Thucydides's Trap is the dangerous dynamic that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, explains Harvard's Graham Allison. So is war ...

Statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument, Pyongyang. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_statues_of_Kim_Il_Sung_and_Kim_Jong_Il_on_Mansu_Hill_in_Pyongyang_(april_2012).jpg">J.A. de Roo (CC)</a>

JUL 18, 2017 Podcast

Isaac Stone Fish: Facts and Fiction on North Korea

Asia Society's Isaac Stone Fish is working on a novel set in Pyongyang, but he's also looking for the truth in the "world's most opaque ...

JUL 13, 2017 Podcast

Mira Rapp-Hooper on "Subcontracting" U.S. Policy Toward Asia

The U.S. and China have fundamentally different priorities regarding the Korean Peninsula, explains Asia expert Rapp-Hooper. "So, by subcontracting North Korea policy to China," ...

JUL 12, 2017 Podcast

Pankaj Ghemawat on Global Strategy in the Age of Brexit and Trump

How should companies strategize in the age of "Brump" (shorthand for Brexit and Trump)? Should they think locally rather than globally? Are trade wars inevitable, ...

Otto von Bismarck, by George Gibbs. Cover of "Saturday Evening Post" Magazine, 1903. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturday_evening_post_1903_11_28_a.jpg">Public domain</a>.

JUL 11, 2017 Podcast

Conversation with Raymond Kuo: Can Trump be a Bismarck in Asia?

"This has happened before where we've had a great power who is essentially the leader of the international system taking a transactional approach. The closest ...

Brazos Wind Farm near Fluvanna, Texas. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenMountainWindFarm_Fluvanna_2004.jpg">Leaflet</a>

JUL 10, 2017 Podcast

The Earth Institute's Steven Cohen Offers Hope for a Sustainable Future

"I still believe that we're heading toward a renewable resource-based economy. I think that it's inevitable," declares Steven Cohen. How will we get there? A ...

JUL 6, 2017 Podcast

Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise

Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College, and this is a very ...