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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

OCT 15, 2014 Podcast

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

What are the requirements for a liberal democracy? It's not just voting, says Fukuyama. It needs a distinction between public and private interest; rule of ...

OCT 13, 2014 Podcast

Elite Perceptions of the United States in Europe and Asia

An interesting new report finds that political and business leaders in Asia value U.S. hard power while Europeans focus on American values. Both, however, ...

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OCT 8, 2014 Podcast

Data Threats: Hackers, Government Agencies, and Defending Data Online

Cybersecurity risks increases daily as more and more of our private information is stored online--and the biggest threat isn't necessarily hackers. This second episode in ...

OCT 6, 2014 Podcast

Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention

Why do international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential? Severine Autesserre discusses what makes an effective peacekeeping operation.

OCT 2, 2014 Podcast

A Conversation with Lieutenant-General Roméo A. Dallaire

In this inspiring conversation, Dallaire talks about his faith in the principle of R2P--"one of the great innovations of our time"--and how ...

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SEP 29, 2014 Podcast

Foreign Fighters in Syria

How is ISIS structured? Why are young Muslims from many countries going to Syria to join it? What is the nature and extent of the ...

SEP 23, 2014 Podcast

How to Prevent Another Great Recession

First, there will definitely be another recession, says Ay. As long as people make free economic decisions, they will make mistakes. But it's important to ...

SEP 22, 2014 Podcast

Podcast with Joel Rosenthal and Devin Stewart for Global Ethics Day

What is Global Ethics Day? "Our dream is that this becomes a global educational effort and that people come to learn from each other from ...

SEP 19, 2014 Podcast

Climate Change and the Future of Humanity

Climate change is already here. The seas are rising, the glaciers are melting, and the atmosphere is warming. How can we work together to set ...

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SEP 5, 2014 Podcast

Big Data, Virginia Woolf, and the Right to be Forgotten

As a society, we're still developing vocabulary to talk about data technology and the moral questions it raises. In this first of a series of ...