Public Affairs

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.

The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership

MAR 25, 2004 Podcast

The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership

To prevail in the war on terrorism and other looming geo-strategic crises, says Brzezinski, America needs serious allies, not just "coalitions of the willing."

Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy by Preston and Dillon

MAR 18, 2004 Transcript

Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy

Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon discuss Mexico's extraordinary democratic transformation.

Where is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him? by Robert Perito

MAR 10, 2004 Transcript

Where is the Lone Ranger When We Need Him? America’s Search for a Post-Conflict Stability Force

Perito argues the need for creating a new U.S. force that is trained to assist with post-conflict operations in places like the Balkans, Afghanistan, ...

The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century

MAR 4, 2004 Transcript

The UN Security Council: From the Cold War to the 21st Century

Malone points out that disagreements among the Permanent Five Security Council members have been confined to just three issues since the end of the Cold ...

MAR 1, 2004 Transcript

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Coll spotlights the interactions among the CIA, Pakistani intelligence (ISI), Saudi intelligence, and other hidden networks (particularly al Qaeda and its affiliates) decades before 9/11/01.

MAR 1, 2004 Podcast

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Coll spotlights the interactions among the CIA, Pakistani intelligence (ISI), Saudi intelligence, and other hidden networks (particularly al Qaeda and its affiliates) decades before 9/11/01.

MAR 1, 2004 Podcast

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Coll spotlights the interactions among the CIA, Pakistani intelligence (ISI), Saudi intelligence, and other hidden networks (particularly al Qaeda and its affiliates) decades before 9/11/01.

MAR 1, 2004 Podcast

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Coll spotlights the interactions among the CIA, Pakistani intelligence (ISI), Saudi intelligence, and other hidden networks (particularly al Qaeda and its affiliates) decades before 9/11/01.

FEB 26, 2004 Transcript

Universal Democracy? Prospects for a World Transformed

Diamond insists that the United States and the international community have a moral obligation, as well as a political opportunity, to encourage, foster, and promote ...

FEB 24, 2004 Transcript

Afghanistan: Between Hope and Abyss

Since the time of the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, much of the Afghan population has endured enormous hardship. Dr. Reinhard Eroes, the founder of Children's ...