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Stratfor's Rodger Baker on the Rebalancing of World Politics and Asia
August 10, 2017 13:40 - 14 minutes - 16.4 MB"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 clear and concise policy from the administration. "Uncertainty, if the United States were just a small peripheral country, is manageable; uncertainty when the United States is such a large and impactful country becomes very difficult to manage."
Ziad Haider: U.S.-Asia Economic Ties Under Trump
August 08, 2017 13:21 - 27 minutes - 31.2 MBIn 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 the One Belt One Road, says Ziad Haider, former State Department special representative for commercial and business affairs. Nevertheless, we shouldn't fall into the narrative of "The United States and China are locked into competition." China's actions also offer opportunities for the U.S.
Scott D. Sagan on the Nuclear Necessity Principle
August 04, 2017 13:27 - 45 minutes - 52 MBMajor changes must be made if U.S. nuclear war plans are to conform to the principles of just war doctrine and the law of armed conflict, declares Stanford University's Scott Sagan. He proposes a new doctrine: "the nuclear necessity principle." In sum, the U.S. will not use nuclear weapons against any target that could be reliably destroyed by conventional means.
Michele Wucker on when the Gray Rhino Hits Asia
August 03, 2017 16:02 - 24 minutes - 28.5 MBMichele 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 metaphor for the big, obvious thing that's coming at you that you've got a choice to deal with or not." Why has this concept struck such a chord in China, Taiwan, and Korea, while Americans tend to be more in denial about their gray rhinos?
Amnesty International's Sarah Jackson on the Crisis in South Sudan
August 02, 2017 10:20 - 29 minutes - 33.5 MBSince South Sudan's civil war broke out in late 2013, soldiers on both sides have been using rape and other forms of sexual violence on a massive scale as a weapon of war, says Amnesty International's Sarah Jackson. The resulting refugee crisis is putting a severe strain on neighboring Uganda, a country with one of the most generous refugee policies in the world. What is at the root of this violence? How can governments and NGOs help?
George Friedman: The End of the International Order and the Future of Asia
August 01, 2017 14:28 - 25 minutes - 29.5 MBTired of conventional wisdom? Check out geopolitical forecaster George Friedman. The period that began at the end of World War II was a freak, he says. "We're returning to a more normal structure in which the nation-state is dominant, international trade is intense but managed by states for their own benefit, and where this idea that the nation-state is obsolete goes away." And find out why he's bullish on Japan and thinks we overestimate China.
Meredith Sumpter: The "G-Zero" World Hits Asia
July 27, 2017 14:10 - 17 minutes - 19.7 MB"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 political risk expert Meredith Sumpter. "We are amidst a transition to a multipolar world, a world that is marked by the relative rise and power of other countries, even while the United States continues to be the most powerful country."
General Donald Bolduc on the U.S. War in Afghanistan
July 25, 2017 14:17 - 29 minutes - 33.9 MBIn this inspiring interview, Brig. Gen. Bolduc discusses his time in Afghanistan and his assessment of the situation there as well as in Africa, where he was in charge of countering violent extremism. He also reveals his experiences with PTSD, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and multiple other physical injuries, explaining how he finally got help and how he is working hard to help others with the same issues.
Alexander Klimburg on "The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace"
July 21, 2017 14:01 - 17 minutes - 19.7 MBIn the West we view cyber threats as largely a technical issue, while in Russia and China they see it in terms of propaganda, information control, and influencing their domestic affairs, says Alex Klimburg. When we confuse these two narratives, we risk missing other nations' key strategies to push the Internet in unwanted directions. Indeed, almost without realizing it, we are contributing to something approaching an arms race in cyber.
Graham Allison on "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?"
July 20, 2017 15:03 - 21 minutes - 24.7 MBThucydides'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 between China and the United States inevitable? No, says Allison, but both nations will have to make "painful adaptations and adjustments" to avoid it, starting with U.S. policy adjustments regarding the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula.
Isaac Stone Fish: Facts and Fiction on North Korea
July 18, 2017 14:05 - 28 minutes - 32.7 MBAsia Society's Isaac Stone Fish is working on a novel set in Pyongyang, but he's also looking for the truth in the "world's most opaque country." Why does he think the North Koreans are acting rationally? What are the possible outcomes if tensions continue to rise between Kim and Trump?
Mira Rapp-Hooper on "Subcontracting" U.S. Policy Toward Asia
July 13, 2017 12:47 - 19 minutes - 21.8 MBThe U.S. and China have fundamentally different priorities regarding the Korean Peninsula, explains Asia expert Rapp-Hooper. "So, by subcontracting North Korea policy to China," she says, "I think the United States is evincing some amount of naïveté on how far Beijing is likely to actually be willing to go."
Pankaj Ghemawat on Global Strategy in the Age of Brexit and Trump
July 12, 2017 16:27 - 19 minutes - 22.3 MBHow should companies strategize in the age of "Brump" (shorthand for Brexit and Trump)? Should they think locally rather than globally? Are trade wars inevitable, and if so, how will they affect countries large and small? Don't miss this analysis from economist Pankaj Ghemawat.
Conversation with Raymond Kuo: Can Trump be a Bismarck in Asia?
July 11, 2017 14:10 - 28 minutes - 32.7 MB"This has happened before where we've had a great power who is essentially the leader of the international system taking a transactional approach. The closest example would be maybe Bismarck in the 1870s until the eve of World War I. There it worked quite well. . . . The drawbacks of this, of course, are that it is highly unstable."
The Earth Institute's Steven Cohen Offers Hope for a Sustainable Future
July 10, 2017 11:49 - 46 minutes - 53.7 MB"I still believe that we're heading toward a renewable resource-based economy. I think that it's inevitable," declares Steven Cohen. How will we get there? A combination of market forces as renewables become cheaper, better technology, and the sharing economy.
Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise
July 06, 2017 20:17 - 27 minutes - 31.9 MBAcross the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College, and this is a very dangerous trend. Donald Trump didn't create this, but he certainly weaponized it politically, just as Brexiteers did in the UK.
Amitai Etzioni on Avoiding War with China
June 29, 2017 13:27 - 23 minutes - 26.5 MBThe result of a war with China? "At best we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons nobody will use which are badly in need of nation building at home; at worst, we get into a war with a major power that has nuclear weapons."
Ali Wyne on the Risks of U.S. Disengagement from Asia
June 27, 2017 15:22 - 38 minutes - 44.4 MB"Unless we are able to overcome our strategic attention deficit disorder for lack of a better phrase, and unless we are able to not only compete anew economically in the region, but also shape a constructive economic agenda in the region, I fear that that perception of American disengagement will only intensify," says Atlantic Council Fellow Ali Wyne.
Soldiers and Civilization: How the Profession of Arms Thought and Fought the Modern World into Existence
June 23, 2017 14:47 - 34 minutes - 39.8 MBThe soldier "is at once the most and the least civilized of persons," says Carnegie Council Senior Fellow Reed Bonadonna. In this thoughtful conversation, he discusses his new book; military ethics through the ages; and the relationship between the army, the state, and the culture at large, both past and present.
Waleed Alhariri on the U.S. Covert Use of Lethal Force, and the Crisis in Yemen
June 21, 2017 18:03 - 24 minutes - 28.4 MBWaleed Alhariri of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies discusses the Center's new report on U.S. covert attacks against al Qaeda and other radical groups in Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen. He then focuses on Yemen, a nation suffering from internal conflict, intervention by a Saudi-led coalition, and a cholera epidemic. Humanitarian assistance is sorely needed, says Alhariri and explains what the general public can do to help.
Global Ethics Forum Preview: Connecting Ethics, the Environment, and Economics with Shalini Kantayya
June 15, 2017 18:47 - 4 minutes - 4.93 MBNext time on Global Ethics Forum, filmmaker Shalini Kantayya discusses her film "Catching the Sun" and the growing renewable energy industry in America. In this excerpt, Kantayya talks with journalist Stephanie Sy about the positive effect that solar power can have on the middle class in both red states and blue states.
Yvonne Terlingen on the UN Secretary-General Selection Process
June 13, 2017 16:10 - 32 minutes - 36.9 MBUntil very recently, the United Nations selected its secretary-general entirely behind closed doors. Yvonne Terlingen, of the 1 for 7 Billion Find the Best UN Leader campaign, explains how the system has been made much more transparent and democratic: for example, candidates' names and resumes are promptly made available, women are encouraged to apply, and there is even some civil society participation in the process.
Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
June 12, 2017 16:05 - 28 minutes - 32.5 MB"Oceans dominate the world," says Admiral Stavridis. After all, 70 percent of the globe is covered by water. In this masterly overview of the seven seas, he touches on the maritime battles that changed history; current geopolitics from the South China Sea to the Mediterranean; and the fact that environmentally, the oceans are "the largest crime scene in the world."
Global Ethics Forum Preview: The Intersection of Religion, Identity, and Peacemaking with Rev. Robert Chase
June 08, 2017 19:09 - 3 minutes - 3.92 MBNext time on Global Ethics Forum, Revered Robert Chase discusses his work with Intersections International, bringing people together across lines of difference. In this excerpt, Reverend Chase tells journalist Randall Pinkston how Barack Obama helped to inspire the founding of Intersections.
James Traub on Immigrants and Refugees
June 08, 2017 17:33 - 50 minutes - 57.5 MBWhat happens when Sweden, one of the most welcoming countries on Earth for migrants, simply runs out of beds? What are the unpleasant (and politically incorrect) truths about the difficulties of assimilation in Europe? How can we have honest policy discussions about this? Author James Traub has been spending time in Sweden, France, and Germany and has given these sensitive issues much thought. Don't miss his unflinching analysis.
Shades of Red and Blue: The Next Generation of Leaders: Better Politics for A Better Future
June 07, 2017 14:53 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBThis discussion brings together some of the brightest minds of the next generation of leaders and places them in the crucible of an imagined future that will test their thinking about the world vision they want to work towards.
The Soul of the First Amendment
June 05, 2017 21:21 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBIn this timely event, Floyd Abrams, a noted lawyer and award-winning legal scholar specializing in First Amendment issues, examines the degree to which American law protects free speech more often, more intensely, and more controversially than is the case anywhere else in the world, including democratic nations such as Canada and England.
The U.S. Navy's View on Security in Asia and Beyond
June 02, 2017 21:37 - 32 minutes - 37 MBCarnegie Council's Devin Stewart talks with Admiral John Richardson, the U.S. Navy's most senior-ranking officer. Topics include strategy; the security challenges the Navy faces today, focusing particularly on the Pacific; and the need for a bigger Navy. Admiral Richardson also discusses the Navy's core values: honor, courage and commitment.
Global Ethics Forum Preview: Toward Democracy with James T. Kloppenberg
June 01, 2017 18:44 - 4 minutes - 5.4 MBNext time on Global Ethics Forum, Harvard professor James T. Kloppenberg discusses the violent history of self-rule in Europe and the United States. In this excerpt, Kloppenberg explains the connection between Europe’s wars of religion in the 16th and 17th centuries and democracy in early America.
Shades of Red and Blue: Race, Religion, and Immigration
May 31, 2017 14:51 - 1 hour - 69.9 MBDiversity is a strength in some societies. In others, it is a source of unresolved tension that can erupt into fear, hatred, and violence. Hear from Lee C. Bollinger, Jelani Cobb, Paola Mendoza, Derryck Green, and Jhoshan Jothilingam. This program is part of the Shades of Red and Blue series, presented by The Ethics Centre, and co-sponsored by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and Bard Globalization and International Affairs program. This program was recorded on April 1...
Shades of Red and Blue: The Problem of Strangers
May 25, 2017 15:18 - 59 minutes - 68.5 MBThe hardening of America's borders is an essential part of Trump's agenda. But will this make the United States a safer and more prosperous nation? Hear from Jamil Dakwar, Sana Mustafa, Yael Eiesenstat, Oz Sultan, and Chadwick Moore. This program is part of the Shades of Red and Blue series, presented by The Ethics Centre, and co-sponsored by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and Bard Globalization and International Affairs program. This program was recorded on April 1,...
Asha Castleberry on Trump's Generals and the Fight Against ISIS
May 24, 2017 20:37 - 24 minutes - 27.6 MBAsha Castleberry, Fordham professor and U.S. Army veteran, gives detailed updates of the campaigns against ISIS in Mosul and Raqqa and the endlessly complicated Syrian Civil War. She also discusses the ups and downs of Trump's strategy in the Middle East and the influence of Secretary Mattis and National Security Advisor McMaster.
Global Ethics Forum Preview: Homo Deus with Yuval Noah Harari
May 18, 2017 19:29 - 4 minutes - 5.69 MBNext time on Global Ethics Forum, best-selling author Yuval Noah Harari discusses the ethical implications of the next phase of human development. In this excerpt, Harari explains how new technologies and intelligent design will have unintended consequences.
Crisis of the Liberal Order
May 18, 2017 15:32 - 59 minutes - 68.5 MBWhat explains the global resurgence of populism and the rise of political actors on the right? And what are the effects on longstanding alliances, international institutions, and accepted norms? Don't miss this lively conversation with Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, and international affairs expert Walter Russell Mead.
Shades of Red and Blue: State of the Union
May 17, 2017 15:28 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBWhen the Nixon administration fell into a chasm of disgrace, many felt that not only the Republican Party had been tarnished, but the presidency itself. Yet, the "ship of state" remained on an even keel. Can America still govern itself effectively?
Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West
May 12, 2017 17:52 - 1 hour - 80.1 MBFrom January 2015 to July 2016, 239 people in France died in terrorist attacks. In this gripping talk, leading French scholar Gilles Kepel explains the causes behind this new wave of violent jihad and discusses why Europe is the main target.
Global Ethics Forum Preview: China's Role in the World with Orville Schell
May 11, 2017 20:22 - 3 minutes - 4 MBNext time on Global Ethics Forum, Asia Society's Orville Schell discusses liberalism's decline, China-U.S. relations, and Xi Jinping's worldview. In this excerpt, Schell talks with journalist Stephanie Sy about his own background and how that has shaped his thinking on human rights in China.
Shades of Red and Blue: Global Security
May 10, 2017 15:04 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBFor more than half a century, the United States has shouldered a disproportionate share of global security burdens. As China rises and Russia reasserts its place in the world, can America control its destiny? Hear from Thomas N. Nichols, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Elmira Bayrasli, Walter Russell Mead, and James Ketterer. This program is part of the Shades of Red and Blue series, presented by The Ethics Centre, and co-sponsored by Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and Bard Global...
#Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media
May 09, 2017 15:31 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBHow is today's Internet driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism—and what can be done about it? Legal scholar Cass Sunstein shares the results of his research.