Overview
Asia Dialogues advanced cross-cultural dialogue and offered critical insights on how to reimagine the international system.
AUG 30, 2017 • Podcast
Heidi Grant on U.S. Air Force Global Partnerships
George Washington understood that building capable partners during peacetime can actually prevent war, says Heidi Grant. She is deputy under secretary of the Air Force, ...
AUG 17, 2017 • Podcast
Joshua Eisenman on "Chinese National Socialism"
Under Xi Jinping, China is stepping up a crackdown on freedom of expression, including in universities, reports China expert Joshua Eisenman. Is this the beginning ...
AUG 15, 2017 • Podcast
Scott Kennedy of CSIS: Worst Case Scenarios for China's Economy
After four decades of stellar growth, where is China's economy headed today? "In the last few years not only has the economy slowed down, but ...
AUG 10, 2017 • Podcast
Stratfor's Rodger Baker on the Rebalancing of World Politics and Asia
"I think the biggest impact of Donald Trump's presidency, particularly in Asia-Pacific, has been the concept of uncertainty," says Baker, citing the lack of a ...
AUG 8, 2017 • Podcast
Ziad Haider: U.S.-Asia Economic Ties Under Trump
In this post-TPP world where the U.S. has taken a step back from Asia, the vacuum is being filled by China's initiatives, such as ...
AUG 3, 2017 • Podcast
Michele Wucker on when the Gray Rhino Hits Asia
Michele Wucker describes a gray rhino as the "love child of the black swan and the elephant in the room." In other words, "it's a ...
AUG 1, 2017 • Podcast
George Friedman: The End of the International Order and the Future of Asia
Tired of conventional wisdom? Check out geopolitical forecaster George Friedman. The period that began at the end of World War II was a freak, he ...
JUL 27, 2017 • Podcast
Meredith Sumpter: The "G-Zero" World Hits Asia
"First and foremost, a G-zero is a world in which no one country has dominant power or can influence the international system of governance," explains ...
JUL 25, 2017 • Podcast
General Donald Bolduc on the U.S. War in Afghanistan
In this inspiring interview, Brig. Gen. Bolduc discusses his time in Afghanistan and his assessment of the situation there as well as in Africa, where ...
JUL 20, 2017 • Podcast
Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"
Thucydides's Trap is the dangerous dynamic that occurs when a rising power threatens to displace a ruling power, explains Harvard's Graham Allison. So is war ...