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NOV 14, 2017 Podcast

Elizabeth Economy on China, Climate Change, and the Environment

How does climate change play into Xi Jinping's larger strategy for China's economy and its role on the global stage? Xi has a vision for ...

NOV 9, 2017 Podcast

The Rise of Duterte in the Philippines, with Richard Heydarian

Duterte is part of an arc of populism in emerging market democracies such as Turkey and India, says author Haydarian, but unlike populist movements in ...

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NOV 8, 2017 Podcast

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? with Graham Allison

Thucydides is not saying that the inevitable frictions between a rising power and a ruling one will always lead to war, says Allison. The danger ...

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NOV 1, 2017 Podcast

Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities, with Kate Brown

Chernobyl is considered the greatest nuclear disaster of all time. But over decades America's Hanford plant and Russia's Mayak plant each issued almost four times ...

OCT 31, 2017 Podcast

Democracy and Its Crisis, with A. C. Grayling

Representative democracy in the UK has been corrupted by the three B's, says Grayling: blackmail, bullying, and bribery. There are similar problems in the United ...