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Category: International Affairs

Gen. Michael V. Hayden: The Assault on Intelligence

May 25, 2018 admin International Affairs, Public Policy

General Michael Hayden, former Director of CIA and National Security Agency — and author of “The Assault on Intelligence” — joined me for a conversation

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Ronan Farrow: War on Peace

May 4, 2018 admin International Affairs, Public Policy

Ronan Farrow, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, talked with me about

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Michael Isikoff & David Corn: Putin’s War on America

March 16, 2018 admin International Affairs, Politics

Michael Isikoff and David Corn, authors of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,  discuss how

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Steve Coll: Inside America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

February 20, 2018 admin International Affairs

I spoke with Steve Coll, author of the bestselling books, Directorate S and Ghost Wars. Subscribe via iTunes or Google Play to get new episodes automatically

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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt: “How Democracies Die”

February 9, 2018 admin International Affairs, Politics, Public Policy

Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt discuss their New York Times bestseller, How Democracies Die. It’s a discussion that could change the way you look

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Graham Allison: Are U.S. and China Headed for War?

July 21, 2017 admin International Affairs

That’s the provocative, timely, and somewhat scary question posed by one of America’s great authorities on international affairs: Harvard’s Graham Allison. Allison is the author

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Alexa Koenig: The Internet Can Help Stop Human Rights Abuse

March 29, 2017 admin International Affairs, Public Policy, Technology

Alexa Koenig is Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley, a 2015 winner of a prestigious MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective

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Dan Drezner: ‘Foreign Policy for Campaigns is Like an Unexploded Landmine’

September 28, 2016 admin International Affairs, Public Policy

Chris Riback spoke to political scientist Dan Drezner on Political Wire Conversations about social media and the impact of foreign policy on the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Retro Report’s Peter Klein: “The Sleeper Cell That Wasn’t”

November 24, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

From secret eavesdropping to surreptitious email gathering, we all have an increased sense of how far the government seems willing to go in the war

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Rana Mitter, University of Oxford: “Forgotten Ally: China’s WWII 1937-45”

September 12, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

When we talk today of the WWII Allies, many of us immediately think US, Britain and Russia. We forget, some of us at least, the

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Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution

August 1, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

With another round of sequester cuts pending, tensions over military budget cuts continue to grow. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined a stark choice: Maintain a

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Elizabeth Economy, Council on Foreign Relations

July 30, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Of all the destabilizing threats coming from China today – a slowing economy; military growth; computer hacking; relations with Japan – none may be a

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