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JUN 11, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: U.S.-Russian Relations, Ukraine, & the G-20, with Nikolas Gvosdev

Following up on his talk with RAND analyst Ali Wyne on great-power competition, Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev gives an update on U.S.-Russian relations, ...

Secretary of State Pompeo & President Trump at NATO headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, July 2018. CREDIT: <a href=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Secretary_Pompeo_Participates_in_Press_Conference_With_President_Trump_at_NATO_(42456753975).jpg>U.S. Department of State (CC)</a>

JUN 10, 2019 Podcast

The American Public and U.S. Global Engagement: Mid-2019 Snapshot, with Ali Wyne

Looking ahead to the 2020 election and the role that foreign policy will play on the campaign trail, Senior Fellow Nikolas Gvosdev talks with RAND's Ali ...

JUN 6, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: A Firsthand Account of Electrification in Myanmar, with Christina Madden

Christina Madden, now a director at Criterion Institute, discusses her work on Myanmar's massive electrification project in 2013-2014. With less than one-third of the population ...

Meeting of leaders at the Belt and Road International Forum, May 2017, Beijing. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roundtable_meeting_of_leaders_at_Belt_and_Road_international_forum.jpg"> Russian Presidential Press & Information Office (CC)</a>

JUN 5, 2019 Podcast

China, Surveillance, and "Belt & Road" with Joshua Eisenman

Just back from China, Sinologist (and fluent Mandarin speaker) Joshua Eisenman discusses the pervasive camera surveillance and facial recognition systems there; the omnipresent power of "...

L to R: Henry Farrell, Stephen Del Rosso, Michael Desch. CREDIT: Billy Pickett.

JUN 5, 2019 Podcast

A Debate: Political Science is Lapsing into Irrelevance, with Michael Desch & Henry Farrell

What is the current state of the academic-policy gap and why should we care? What progress has been made in bridging this gap? What more ...