Overview
Public Affairs hosted speakers who are prominent people in the world of international affairs, from acclaimed authors, to Nobel laureates, to high-ranking UN officials.
JAN 31, 2013 • Podcast
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
With a breadth and depth of knowledge spanning not only current geopolitics but centuries of history, Robert Kaplan shows us the crucial importance of geography ...
JAN 24, 2013 • Podcast
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons
What if everything we believe about nuclear weapons is wrong? "Reexamine the facts and you'll see that the arguments for nuclear weapons aren't powerful; they're ...
JAN 17, 2013 • Podcast
A Fragile New Burma
Back from a recent fact-finding trip to Burma, veteran Asia correspondent Barbara Crossette reports on the complex situation there. People have high hopes for more ...
DEC 14, 2012 • Podcast
The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics
In the Cold War, the path to nuclear war always led through Moscow and Washington. In the second nuclear age the triggers to nuclear war ...
DEC 13, 2012 • Podcast
Why Tolerate Religion?
Why do Western democracies single out religion for preferential treatment? For example, why can a Sikh boy carry a dagger to school while other children ...
DEC 12, 2012 • Podcast
Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion
"Talibanistan" is the nickname for the embattled territory from Kandahar in Afghanistan to Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas. Two experts explode ...
NOV 30, 2012 • Podcast
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines--and Future
Drawing on over 30 years of experience of reporting on Saudi Arabia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Elliott House takes us behind the scenes in this secretive ...
NOV 19, 2012 • Podcast
America in the 21st Century: A View from America
"Why is it that the political system today seems so gridlocked? Why is the issue of brinkmanship in America so incredibly debilitating and so very ...
OCT 27, 2012 • Podcast
Exit the Colonel: The Hidden History of the Libyan Revolution
The real story of the Libyan Revolution began not with the Arab Spring, but in 2003, when anti-Qaddafi sanctions were lifted. Former U.S. diplomat Ethan ...