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Podcasts
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Building a Different Middle East / Gilles Kepel
Over the last several months, there have been a series of extraordinary developments in the Middle East that could have almost as big an impact on...
Is India Back? / Milan Vaishnav
India had the world's largest economy until the 17th century but suffered almost 500 years of decline afterward. However, India is currently the...
Africa’s Arc of Misery: Sudan / Samah Salman
Samah Salman, a Sudanese businesswoman and civil society leader shares her insights on the situation and efforts for peace. Sudan is at war with...
Rising China Plants a Flag in the Middle East / Yasmine Farouk
Yasmine Farouk discusses the impact of China’s mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the Middle East and beyond. Early last month, there was an...
Reflections on the Guillotine / Pierre Lellouche
Macron’s dilemma: European sovereignty or alienating allies? Former French politician Pierre Lellouche analyzes Macron’s blunders and their impact...
Slouching Towards Texas (If Not Bethlehem)/ Amelia Frank-Vitale
Anthropologist Amelia Frank-Vitale discusses what it takes to walk from Honduras to Texas, and the tragedies along the way. Human history is a long...
Is This Any Way to Run a War? / Anna Wieslander
Anna Wieslander has had the temerity to point out that the West has no strategy to end the war in Ukraine. Listen as host Alan Stoga...
Needed: New Thinking about Africa’s Debt Burden / Bright Simons
Debt and mismanagement are hindering Africa's enormous potential despite its young, optimistic population and growing middle class. Hear from...