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FEB 7, 2017 Podcast

Sensible Advice for Trump's Asia Policy

"Hopefully, 'America First' really means peace through strength; it means putting our economy and our economic policy at the forefront of our strategy; it means ...

FEB 6, 2017 Podcast

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

How exactly should we define populism?  What led to its current resurgence in Europe and the United States, on both the right and the left?  ...

FEB 3, 2017 Podcast

Freedom of Expression in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Beyond

Freelance journalist Ismail Einashe sees a dangerous backsliding of democracy and free media in sub-Saharan Africa, alongside an increase in Internet access and the influence ...

FEB 2, 2017 Podcast

Shalini Kantayya: The Intersection of Ethics, the Environment, & Economics

"I think we as a movement have not done a good job of making climate change a kitchen-table issue, of making this an economic issue ...

FEB 2, 2017 Podcast

Global Ethics Forum Preview: Islamic Exceptionalism with Shadi Hamid

Next time on Global Ethics Forum, Brookings Institution’s Shadi Hamid discusses the exceptionalism of Islam and what that means for law and governance. In ...

JAN 27, 2017 Podcast

Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union

To avoid disaster, the EU needs to become a real federation, argues Guy Verhofstadt. "That means a small, real European government controlled by two bodies, ...

Protest against now-impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul, October 2016. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tkazec/30021968224/">Teddy Cross</a><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"> (CC)</a>

JAN 25, 2017 Podcast

Instability on the Korean Peninsula and the Trump Administration

North Korea is one of the most serious security risks facing the new U.S. administration and South Korea has a political vacuum at the ...

A military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uwebrodrecht/22963490912">Uwe Brodrecht</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">(CC)</a>

JAN 23, 2017 Podcast

Will Trump be a "Madman" in Asia?

Are there advantages to Trump being seen as an unpredictable "madman" when dealing with Asia, as Nixon was once described in relation to Vietnam? Or ...

JAN 12, 2017 Podcast

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

From massive leaps in technology to ever-increasing globalization to the acceleration of climate change, workplace, politics, geopolitics, and ethics are all going through tectonic shifts. ...

Ian Bremmer. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni

JAN 10, 2017 Podcast

Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2017

The world is entering a geopolitical recession, i.e. an unwinding of the old global order, says political scientist Ian Bremmer, in his grimmest forecast ...