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Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

APR 13, 2004 Podcast

Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics

Joseph Nye's concept of "soft power" has become part of the international relations lexicon. In this 2004 book talk, he argues that hard power alone cannot ...

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."

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.

Backstory: Inside the Business of News by Ken Auletta

JAN 14, 2004 Podcast

Backstory: Inside the Business of News

Auletta explores four of "the deadliest sins of journalism": synergy, the clash of business culture and news culture, hubris, and bias.

SEP 3, 2003 Podcast

Teaching Environmental Values

How do you incorporate the environment into a curriculum on ethics and international affairs?

The Dust of Empire:The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland by Karl Meyer

JUN 24, 2003 Podcast

The Dust of Empire:The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland

Meyer talks about his recent book on Central Asia and how the imperial past matters in explaining the politics of the region today.

FEB 27, 2003 Podcast

The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century

International relations authority Charles Kupchan argues that America ignores Europe at its own peril.

FEB 20, 2003 Podcast

Turkey: Islamic Secularism or Secular Islam?

Does the election of an Islamist party in Turkey represent a challenge to the secular Turkish system? Council Fellow Ishan Dagi's take on ...