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Mexico and Migration, Most Important Diplomatic Issue of the 21st Century
American Ambassadors Live! Podcast - April 23, 2024 16:58 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratings"Migration issues are going be some of the most important diplomatic issues of the 21st century, whether we agree or disagree on them, I think we just have to at least start by acknowledging that they really are important, and that and it's going to be hard to talk about foreign policy without t...
How the Ukrainian Left Views the War
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - April 19, 2024 16:23 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe tremendous velocity of history that Ukraine has experienced since independence to the Maidan revolution to the catastrophic war brought on by Russia's aggression often tends to be sold and told in neatly packaged narratives to the West - a heroic tale of a plucky democracy breaking from from...
Assessment: Middle East Outlook
American Ambassadors Live! Podcast - April 12, 2024 15:27 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAmbassador Ryan Crocker presents a frank assessment of the situation in the Middle East after the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. He served as US Ambassador to 6 nations, (Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon). He serves today on the Afghanistan War Commission. Former Presi...
The Future of Taiwan's Silicon Shield
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - April 08, 2024 15:20 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt was just three years ago when the Economist magazine ran a cover story on Taiwan, describing it as "the most dangerous place in the world." With intensifying competition with China and deteriorating global security following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, there are many arguments that continue...
Episode 3: Beyond Borders: Navalny, Argentinean Election Result, Trump's Nomination, Potential French Intervention in Ukraine
Right of Reply - QIAA - Queen's University - March 15, 2024 00:00 - 17 minutesExplore the latest geopolitical shifts in our newest episode! Delve into Navalny's defiance, Argentina's political upheaval, Trump's resurgence, and the potential deployment of French soldiers to Ukraine .From political intrigue to international tensions, we unravel the complexities sha...
Understanding the Ukraine War through the Lens of Greek Tragedy
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - March 11, 2024 14:35 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs the war in Ukraine rages on into its second year, there remains little consensus or understanding of how the conflict could be resolved outside of military outcomes, and a persisting misunderstanding on behalf of the West regarding Ukraine's own internal preexisting social divisions. This w...
You can't understand the Soviet system without understanding the daily lives of its people
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - February 02, 2024 13:31 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFrom the Russian Revolution of 1917 to the chaotic disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, there is a dazzling and disorienting array of histories. While many books detail the lives and politics of Soviet leaders, Karl Schlögel invites us to better understand the experience of the country th...
The enduring legacy of the Great Arab Revolt
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - January 25, 2024 14:19 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThere is a strong argument to be made that the root of Palestinian identity can be traced back to the 1936-1939 Great Revolt, which united rival families and communities, melded urban with rural, and joined rich and poor together in a struggle against Zionism and the British Empire. This is th...
When China gave up on its peaceful rise
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - January 16, 2024 14:14 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFormulated by PRC think tanks in the mid-1990s, China's official slogan of the "peaceful rise" sought to calm Western fears regarding its blossoming economic, military, and political power as the nation resumed an outsized role in global affairs. However the mood did not last long, as in the lat...
The more a Canadian academic learned about China, the less the West wanted to hear
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - December 28, 2023 17:44 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs 2023 draws to a close, it has become increasingly clear that there are profound misunderstandings and misapprehensions running amok in Western media narratives regarding the pecularities of the current state in China. That's precisely why there should be a high level of interest in a book of ...
How a decade of street protests changed the world
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - December 20, 2023 15:44 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn June 2013, the journalist Vincent Bevins found himself covering a mass street protest in São Paulo, originally sparked by a rise in bus fares. As the tear canisters rained town and violent clashes with police began, the protesters began chanting "Love is over. Turkey is here," making a intent...
The US is trying to get the Cold War band back together
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - December 14, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFollowing the October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas terrorists, President Joe Biden began to refer to America's support for the Israeli offensive into Gaza as one that was equally aligned with US support for the war in Ukraine. This was a narrative that proposed that in both cases evil forces had...
The Economic Aims of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - December 01, 2023 15:44 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs Russia's conflict with Ukraine grinds deep into year 2, there are signals of impatience and exhaustion among the country's key supporters in the United States and Europe, and increasing chatter about "stalemate" and pushing Kyiv to the negotiating table. But even for the staunch isolationists...
An assassination, a coup, and thwarted independence in Congo, 1960
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - November 09, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThe early period of the Cold War in Africa includes some of the most shocking episodes of foreign intervention by the US Central Intelligence Agency, to the point that many of these histories would seem a bit too farfetched for Hollywood. Such was the chaos in 1960-1961, right around the time...
What does the post-neoliberal world order look like?
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - November 02, 2023 15:51 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn an increasingly complex and fractured international system, the norms and expectations of how nations and markets interact is changing from one era into the next before our very eyes. That is the main focus of inquiry for Gary Gerstle, whose new book, "The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal O...
Episode 2: Ghosts, Gavels, and Gaza: The International History of Halloween, Trump Trials and Gaza conflict
Right of Reply - QIAA - Queen's University - October 31, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutesIn this episode, we embark on a journey through the global significance of Halloween, delve into the latest headlines surrounding Trump's indictments, and approach the Israel-Palestine conflict with sensitivity and empathy. Our goal is to shed light on these complex issues, fostering un...
Crisis at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - October 24, 2023 12:55 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we're doing something different at Departures - Robert Amsterdam surrenders the host chair and joins as the interviewee to discuss Amsterdam & Partners LLP engagement on behalf of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which is facing an existential threat following the Rada's passage of Draft...
A dispatch from Israel
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - October 22, 2023 14:41 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn the weeks following the October 7 Hamas terror attacks against Israel, Departures with Robert Amsterdam welcomes special guest Prof. Ron Robin, the President of the University of Haifa in Israel, who provides an assessment and analysis of what the country is going threre and what paths we see...
Episode 1: Season 10 Premiere: Global Turbulence - India-Canada Tensions, US Debt Limit, and Russia-Ukraine Update
Right of Reply - QIAA - Queen's University - October 20, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutesWelcome to Season 10! This episode, meet your new Right of Reply co-hosts Sean and Charlotte and get ready for a dynamic and informative conversation about current pressing world issues. Our journey commences with an in-depth exploration of the recent India-Canada tensions, a continuo...
What We Know 50 Years after the Yom Kippur War
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - October 11, 2023 13:33 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn October of 1973, Israel's existence as an independent state was shaken to its core when Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed into the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, triggering a conflict of sprawling geopolitical scale. This week, in October of 2023, following an unprecedented series of vio...
The weaponization of memory and nostalgia in Russia
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - September 06, 2023 15:01 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs Russia's catastrophic war in Ukraine lurches its way toward another winter, an interesting debate is emerging regarding some of the fundamental ideas of Russian nationalism which has underpinned Vladimir Putin's casus belli, often including specifically misleading characterizations of history...
Balkans Mission: A Perspective on Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia
American Ambassadors Live! Podcast - August 30, 2023 15:07 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsJoin Ambassador G. Philip Hughes and Ambassador Thomas Riley on American Ambassadors Live! with host, Ambassador Jim Rosapepe in a debrief of the Council of American Ambassadors' recent Mission to the Balkans. The three countries visited during the Mission were: Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedo...
The fragile ties that bind Eastern Europe
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - August 23, 2023 14:33 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsEastern Europe, from the northernmost reaches of of the Baltics and down to the Balkan statelets strung along the Adriadic Sea, is one of the most perplexing, conflicted, and interesting regions of the world which still today remains the subject of myths and misunderstanding. Since the end of th...
The legal wasteland of UN sanctions
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - August 04, 2023 13:20 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIn the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, a sweeping transition took place across the international counter-terrorism space. Instead of responding to threats with law enforcement, numerous multilateral bodies instead respond with preemptive actions based on uncertain information - lists of names f...
The fallacy of empires
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - July 17, 2023 17:57 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFor more than one thousand years, the Roman Empire ruled over a vast territory that was unprecedented in both scope and scale. When it finally did fall under pressure from barbarian invasions and internal political divisions (among many other factors), many historians argue that the Romans sowe...
Inside the mind of George F. Kennan
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - June 29, 2023 18:09 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsGeorge F. Kennan is arguably the most important American diplomat of the modern era, whose "long telegram" and strategy of containment shaped the Cold War and postwar period. And yet, at critical moments later in his career, he was cast aside and shut out by the institutions he once led. In hi...
Is China challenging the world order or contributing to its stability?
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - June 09, 2023 12:07 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAs China and the U.S. increasingly compete for power in key areas of U.S. influence across the Middle East and African continent, competition has grown in linear succession, and is increasingly adversarial. Often cynical of Chinese involvement and intentions, the U.S. points to blunders of the B...
MAGA Stands for 'Make Attorneys Get Attorneys'
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - June 02, 2023 15:40 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThere is no historical precedent for a former US president who is facing a more complicated web of both civil and criminal liabilities than Donald Trump, let alone for a former president who again intends to run in the upcoming election. To help sort through this mess and understand what the cas...
Russia's fragile but important presence in Africa
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - May 26, 2023 15:13 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAmid a slew of headlines highlighting Vladimir Putin's efforts to expand Russia's footprint in Africa since the beginning of the Ukraine war, a certain narrative is emerging regarding Moscow's aims, tactics, and results in this crucial but often neglected region. Is Russia's presence in Africa...
The brazen deceptions of wartime collaborators
Departures with Robert Amsterdam - May 17, 2023 11:55 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt takes a certain kind of person to become a collaborator for Axis powers during World War II - a level of self-delusion and survival instinct that is off the charts. In Ian Buruma's latest book, "The Collaborators," he paints in-depth portraits of three such figures - Felix Kersten (masseur ...
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