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JAN 23, 2019 Podcast

Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy, with George Magnus

China's economy has grown exponentially over the last four decades, but George Magnus, former chief economist at UBS, sees four traps that could derail its ...

Orange County Sheriff's deputies dumping illegal alcohol, Santa Ana, California, 1932. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orange_County_Sheriff%27s_deputies_dumping_illegal_booze,_Santa_Ana,_3-31-1932.jpg">Orange County Archives/(CC)</a>

JAN 18, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: Prohibition, Immigration, & the Klan, with Lisa McGirr

In the second podcast in The Crack-Up series, which looks at how 1919 shaped the modern world, historian Ted Widmer talks to Harvard's Professor Lisa McGirr ...

JAN 17, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: 1919 & the Modern World, with Ted Widmer

Historian Ted Widmer discusses his new Carnegie Council podcast series "The Crack-Up" and how 1919 has shaped the modern world. He and host Alex Woodson speak ...

Devin Stewart and Ian Bremmer. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

JAN 16, 2019 Podcast

Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2019, with Ian Bremmer

The wide array of global issues--more than 90 percent of them--that Eurasia Group follows are now headed in the wrong direction in 2019. Eurasia Group president Ian ...

Ian Bremmer and Tom Nichols. CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

JAN 16, 2019 Podcast

Ian Bremmer & Tom Nichols on Globalization, Populism, & American Politics

If populism is a reaction to a globalism that is viewed as unresponsive to the needs of citizens, can populism sustain any version of globalization? ...

JAN 14, 2019 Podcast

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age, with David Sanger

From the U.S. operation against Iran's nuclear enrichment plant, to Chinese theft of personal data, North Korea's financially motivated attacks on American companies, or ...

Mark Payumo in Manila last October with a Philippine National Police Officer, Pacific Fellow Tom Temprosa, & Devin Stewart. <br>CREDIT: Amanda Ghanooni.

JAN 10, 2019 Podcast

Securitizing Climate Change in the Philippines, with Mark Payumo

Now based in California, Mark Payumo previously served as a Philippine Army Special Forces officer. Reflecting on his recent Carnegie Council site visit to Manila ...

JAN 9, 2019 Podcast

Global Ethics Weekly: U.S. Defense Policy After Mattis, with Asha Castleberry

National security expert and U.S. Army veteran Asha Castleberry makes sense of a busy and seemingly chaotic time for the Department of Defense in ...

Teddy Roosevelt in 1910. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TR_smiling_in_automobile.tif">American Press Association / Public Domain</a>

JAN 8, 2019 Podcast

The Crack-Up: Teddy Roosevelt's Complicated Legacy, with Patty O'Toole

This podcast is part of "The Crack-Up," a special series about the events of 1919, a year that in many ways shaped the 20th century and ...

Detail from book cover.

JAN 8, 2019 Podcast

Technology Run Amok: Crisis Management in the Digital Age, with Ian Mitroff

Gold leaf tattoos that would act as a screen for our devices, chips implanted in our brains--these are some of the worrying technologies under development ...