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MAY 7, 2018 Podcast

Crime and Global Justice: The Dynamics of International Punishment, with Daniele Archibugi

Are we witnessing a new era of cosmopolitan justice or are the old principles of victors' justice still in play? Economic and political theorist Daniele ...

Qin Gao. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

MAY 3, 2018 Podcast

Poverty Reduction & Social Welfare in China, with Qin Gao

Professor Qin Gao, director of Columbia's China Center for Social Policy, explains the workings of the Chinese "Dibao" (limited income guarantee) system. "Dibao is doing ...

Robert Bank. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

MAY 2, 2018 Podcast

Promoting Human Rights in the Developing World, with American Jewish World Service's Robert Bank

Growing up in Apartheid-era South Africa, Robert Bank cared about social injustice from an early age. Today he travels the world for AJWS, working with ...

MAY 1, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

Disengagement meets the Army of None

MAY 1, 2018 Podcast

The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship, with Bruce Jentleson

What are the qualities and conditions that enable people to become successful peacemakers? At a time when peace seems elusive and conflict endemic, Bruce Jentleson ...

Indian infantry (58th Rifles) in Fauquissart, France, August 1915. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_infantry_in_the_trenches,_prepared_against_a_gas_attack_(Photo_24-300).jpg">H. D. Girdwood/British Library/Public Domain</a>

MAY 1, 2018 Podcast

The Living Legacy of WWI: Chemical Weapons from the Great War to Syria, with Zach Dorfman

"What you stopped seeing after World War I was great power conflict involving chemical weapons, and what you started seeing was asymmetric conflicts or regional ...

APR 25, 2018 Journal Online Exclusive

Ian Bremmer, Populism and Disengagement

Ian Bremmer responds to the question: "Is populism in the United States linked to support for American withdrawal or disengagement from the world? And is ...

Detail from book cover.

APR 25, 2018 Podcast

Us Vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, with Ian Bremmer

"The failure of globalism [an ideology of bringing people closer together] is very different than the failure of globalization," says Ian Bremmer. "I don't think ...

APR 24, 2018 Podcast

The Living Legacy of WWI: Jane Addams & Her Cosmopolitan Ethics, with Seiko Mimaki

"What distinguished Addams from other peace advocates was her strong emphasis on the crucial role of marginalized people, such as women, immigrants, and workers, in ...

APR 23, 2018 Podcast

The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It, with Yascha Mounk

Harvard's Yascha Mounk argues that liberalism and democracy are coming apart, creating new forms of illiberal democracy (democracy without rights) and undemocratic liberalism (rights without ...