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The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

JUN 6, 2014 Podcast

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union

Serhii Plokhy presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months, which places Ukraine at the center of the drama. And by providing ...

Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings

JUN 1, 2014 Podcast

Sectarian Politics in the Gulf: From the Iraq War to the Arab Uprisings

It's tempting to see today's Middle East conflicts as the continuation of centuries-old sectarian divisions, but Frederick Wehrey cautions against it. "Sectarianism is really a ...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/134562672@N08/27544317025">Julia Berezovska/Press office NBU</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/">(CC)</a>

MAY 30, 2014 Podcast

Ukraine Update: The Presidential Elections and Beyond

David Speedie discusses the election of new Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko with University of Rhode Island's Nicolai Petro and University of Kent's Richard Sakwa, both ...

MAY 30, 2014 Podcast

A Conversation with Ezekiel Emanuel on Health Care Reform

A doctor, a former advisor to the Obama administration, and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Emanuel has spent a generation advocating on health ...

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MAY 22, 2014 Podcast

Corporations as Agents of Change

Can today's powerful multinational corporations be a force for social good? Should they be, and if so, how should this be implemented? Are they out ...

Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground

MAY 20, 2014 Podcast

Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices from the Internet Underground

Authoritarian governments try to isolate individuals from one another, but in the age of social media this is impossible to do. Online, people discover that ...

Age Of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China

MAY 19, 2014 Podcast

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China

In Chinese, the word for ambition is "wild heart" and for millennia individual aspirations were looked down on, as the group always came first. How ...

MAY 14, 2014 Podcast

Moral Imagination

David Bromwich draws upon thinkers such as Burke, Lincoln, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. to show that it is moral imagination which allows us ...

MAY 13, 2014 Podcast

Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the Front Lines

Journalists have always faced attacks on their freedom to report stories and often on their physical safety as well. Now they face a new threat: ...

MAY 13, 2014 Podcast

The Rise of the New Far Right in Europe and Implications for European Parliament Elections

This panel gives an excellent overview of the complexities of the rise of right-wing populism across Europe, focusing in particular on France, the UK, and ...