Latest Foreign relations Podcast Episodes
How Warfare Evolves
Foreign Podicy - December 22, 2023 19:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGeneral David Petraeus joins the show to discuss his new book (co-authored by Andrew Roberts, our recent episode with him here), Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. Primarily through the lenses of Ukraine and Israel, Cliff and the General examine what has evolved into moder...
Dan Senor Calls Me Back
Foreign Podicy - December 11, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsPodcast host and author Dan Senor joins Cliff to discuss his new book, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World, and Israel's defensive war in Gaza. Among the complexities they ponder: How does Hamas continue to rain rocket fire across Israel — do...
Pizza, Policy, and Helicopters: A Conversation with Rep. Jason Crow
Foreign Podicy - December 08, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsCongressman Jason Crow (D-CO) represents Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, encompassing Aurora and adjacent areas. He's a former Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient who deployed to combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now in Congress, he serves on the important House Permanent Select Co...
What Hamas believes
Foreign Podicy - December 01, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsDuring its October 7 invasion, Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than one thousand civilians in Israel. Its horrific acts of terrorism on that day also included mass rape, pillaging, the desecration of corpses, hostage-taking, and other unspeakable atrocities. Hamas has openly stated that it ai...
ICFRC: Digital Democracy and Youth Empowerment
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDigital democracy uses digital technologies to promote and strengthen democracy, including accessing information, participating in political discussions, and holding elected officials accountable. Young people increasingly use digital technologies to participate in democracy, using social media...
Dispatches from the Ongoing 10/7 War
Foreign Podicy - November 24, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThough the fighting is paused, Israel’s defensive war against Hamas continues. FDD Chief Executive Mark Dubowitz and former Israeli National Security Advisor Eyal Hulata — now a senior international fellow at FDD — just returned from Israel. Host Cliff May asks them what they saw, heard, and lea...
How Hamas Co-opts the Media
Foreign Podicy - November 20, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAlthough six weeks have passed since Iran-backed Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and butchered more than 1,200 innocent civilians while taking hostage another 240, this is just the beginning of Israel’s multi-front defensive war. One key battlefield: the information space. Historically, the od...
Israel’s War on Terrorism
Foreign Podicy - November 17, 2023 19:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFor an update on Israel's ground offensive in Gaza, AKA Israel's War on Terrorism, host Cliff May is joined by FDD experts Jonathan Schanzer — FDD Senior Vice President for Research and author of Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War — and FDD Senior Fellow Jacob Nagel, who pr...
ICFRC: Latinos in Iowa: Planting Seeds of Prosperity, Power and Progress
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - November 15, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn honor of this year's Hispanic Heritage Month theme, Elizabeth Bernal, Marcela Hurtado, and Paola Jaramillo will speak to the progress Latinos and Hispanics have made over the last fifteen years in the Iowa City Area their personal experience as Latinas in lowa, organizing wins, and recent wor...
ICFRC: Climate Security as National Security - Climate Change and the Hawkeye State
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - November 14, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsClimate change is at the forefront of both foreign and domestic policy. While often discussed as an environmental issue, there are profound consequences for our national security, the military, and international relations. From an increase in severe weather events to food security and migration ...
Shattered Peace
Foreign Podicy - November 10, 2023 17:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe October 7 atrocities committed against Israel and by Hamas terrorists with support from the Islamic Republic of Iran has frozen the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, as the clerical regime in Tehran doubtless anticipated. Now, the future of Saudi-Israeli relations may well depen...
ICFRC: Surviving a Dictator, A Dictator Surviving
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - November 08, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsDuring the 2016 elections, refugees coming from Syria to the States were a topic that brought Syria back to the front page. But after that, it slowly faded into the background. That does not mean that all is quiet on that front. Living conditions have deteriorated poorly while the regime behind ...
The War to End All Wars Against Hamas
Foreign Podicy - November 03, 2023 20:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsNearly a month ago, Hamas invaded Israel and murdered over 1,400 men, women, and children. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since World War II, which was also a war against the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. The Israel Defense Forces are now in Gaza aiming to cripple Hama...
ICFRC: Border Imperialism: Control of Land and Bodies Through Colonial Violence
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - November 02, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWe note that the colonization of lands and Indigenous Peoples worldwide has resulted in the placement of foreign borders upon territories Indigenous peoples have inhabited since time immemorial. The results of these impositions adversely affect the nationhood and identity of Indigenous peoples e...
The (Against-the-Odds) Fight for Human Rights
Foreign Podicy - November 01, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsTwo of the world's top experts on human rights join host Cliff May to discuss the October 7 massacre in Israel — the atrocity carried out by Hamas and backed by Iran’s jihadi rulers — and about all that has followed since, in the Middle East, the US, Canada, and elsewhere. They discuss inactio...
Studying War Some More
Foreign Podicy - October 27, 2023 23:38 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIt is the opinion of your Foreign Podicy host, Cliff May, that Andrew Roberts is the world’s greatest living historian. In recent years, he has written groundbreaking biographies of Churchill, Napoleon, and King George. He’s a Bradley Prize winner, and Cliff is the one who nominated him. Howe...
ICFRC: Quality Education for All: UN Sustainable Development Goal #4
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - October 24, 2023 10:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsForeign Relations Council 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On UN Day this year we are honoring that historic agreement by emphasizing the rights of youth, especially the right to quality education. We are joined by UNA Global Goals Ambassador Virgil P...
Penetrating the Fog of Israel’s War
Foreign Podicy - October 20, 2023 23:20 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHamas' terrorist attack on Israel has led to war. We have to think that’s what Hamas and its patrons in Tehran expected and very likely wanted. Is that because they believe they can win on the Gazan battlefields? Does Hezbollah, Tehran’s Lebanese foreign legion, plan to open a second front? Or...
ICFRC: Writing Across the Sinosphere: an IWP-CAPS-ICFRC Collaboration
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - October 19, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Ul International Writing Program and the Center for Asian Pacific Studies hosts a bilingual reading featuring 2023 Fall residents Kevin Chen (Taiwan), Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Wong Yi Eva (Hong Kong), Li Kotomi (Taiwan & Japan), Shi Yifeng, Suo Er, and Wang Zhanhei (PRC), moderated by translato...
The 10/7 War
Foreign Podicy - October 14, 2023 03:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIsrael is at war with Hamas — a real war, not another “mow the grass” conflict. Hamas is one of the terrorist groups funded, armed, trained and instructed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. This war began on Saturday, October 7 when Israel was invaded by Hamas barbarians who mass-murdered young ...
ICFRC: Peoples Science: Community Response to Public Health Crises in Lagos, Nigeria
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - October 11, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsEbenezer Olamiposi Adeyemi is a PhD Candidate in the department of anthropology at the University of Iowa (UI), under the advisement of Professor Ted Powers. Ebenezer holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and a Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies -- both from the University o...
ICFRC: Jamaica: Holdin' a Vibe in a Textured Landscape
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - October 04, 2023 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsFrom Lorna Goodison's third world woman as mystic healer to Reggae and Dancehall pulsing through Kingston nights, Jamaica moves to its own drum beat, making a dance out of its troubles. It is a textured land with its own struggles, secrets and yet an almost inexplicable capacity for lifting the ...
Ukraine in the Balance: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander
Foreign Podicy - September 30, 2023 00:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmericans, our elected officials in Congress, and individuals aspiring to be the next U.S. president are debating whether the United States should continue to support Ukraine. Some Republican presidential candidates are arguing against aid for Ukraine, while several others warn that abandoning U...
ICFRC: Is Brazil at a Tipping Point? Democracy and Climate Change
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - September 27, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsAs an old saying has long held that, "Brazil is the country of the future - - and it always will be." But what future? Join Dr. Smith, an expert on both democracy and the environment in Brazil, to discuss Brazilians' hard work to control deforestation and shore up the country's democracy, before...
News Bulletin From Iran, 70 Years Late
Foreign Podicy - September 23, 2023 02:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratings“What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare informed us. But what if the past is misunderstood? Or misrepresented? What if policy makers are making policies based on false historical narratives? In 1979, host Cliff May went to Iran to report on the revolution that was then underway. Cliff admits t...
Guests of the Ayatollah
Foreign Podicy - September 18, 2023 20:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratings“Hostage diplomacy” is a term you’ll frequently see in the media, but it's a misleading term. What we’re really talking about: Dictators kidnapping and torturing innocent foreign civilians. In some cases, the leaders of free countries pay ransom to get them back. In some cases, the dictators a...
ICFRC: What Does it Mean to be a Good Citizen?
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - September 15, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsMeet members of the West Liberty Citizenship program. Carolyn Colvin an Associate Professor of English Education at the University of lowa, Dan Stevenson is an 8th grade social studies teacher and Erica Jennings is a high school English teacher. Nancy Gardner is a retired elementary principal in...
ICFRC: Cholera in Lebanon: An Old Disease with a New Comeback
Iowa City Foreign Relations Council - September 13, 2023 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 5 ratingsCholera has been a global public health problem that resulted in 7 pandemics since 1961. The first cholera case was reported in North Lebanon on October 4, 2022 in an informal settlement followed by spread across the country; this is the first cholera outbreak in the country since 1993. Despit...
The Polish Perspective
Foreign Podicy - September 08, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsVladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is illegal, immoral, brutal, and barbarian. And if you agree that there is no good alternative to American leadership of the world’s free nations and those that aspire to be, then it follows that it would be a terrible mistake — strategically and morally — for A...
Mexico Is Going South
Foreign Podicy - August 30, 2023 22:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHost Cliff May lived in Mexico in the late 1970s. Back then, there were reasons to believe Mexico was moving in the right direction. That’s no longer the case. Mexico’s narco-cartels are not only growing in power but also making common cause with Chinese Communists. One result: fentanyl-laced dru...
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