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.
MAY 22, 2008 • Podcast
A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
Looking back over the last 30 years, historian Sir Lawrence Freedman analyzes the complex politics of the Middle East and shows how America's policy choices in ...
MAY 16, 2008 • Podcast
Breathing the Fire
Kimberly Dozier, a veteran Middle East journalist who was critically wounded in a Baghdad bomb blast, talks about the difficulties of reporting from Iraq. It's ...
MAY 16, 2008 • Podcast
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State
In the West the idea of governance by Sharia law is radioactive, says Noah Feldman, yet for many in the Muslim world it represents their ...
MAY 6, 2008 • Podcast
Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World
Drawing on his background at the World Bank and as the first post-Taliban finance minister of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani (and co-author Clare Lockhart) develops a ...
APR 29, 2008 • Podcast
Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
Quil Lawrence tells the story of the Kurds, the only Iraqi ethnic group that want the Americans to stay. Divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and ...
APR 28, 2008 • Podcast
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
Americans ask, "Why do they hate us? Is this country pro or anti-American?" But what Khanna finds as he travels the world is that increasingly, ...
APR 15, 2008 • Podcast
Empire of Lies: The Truth About China in the Twenty-First Century
"There are not six million Tibetans in China," says Guy Sorman. "There are one billion." If the many Chinese who are not beneficiaries of economic ...
APR 11, 2008 • Podcast
The Conscience of a Liberal
How can we reclaim the relationship between America's government and its citizens? What will it take to achieve a new New Deal?
APR 7, 2008 • Podcast
Climate Change and New Security Issues
H.E. Dr. Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland, discusses how Iceland has successfully reduced its use of oil and coal, and how the fate ...
APR 4, 2008 • Podcast
Torture and Democracy
In his exhaustive study, Rejali traces the history of torture through the ages. "It's not so much that torture never works," he says. "The point ...