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“Pod Save America” cohost Tommy Vietor thought foreign policy was boring and complicated until he got the education of a lifetime working for President Obama’s National Security Council. On “Pod Save the World,” he and former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes break down the latest developments and bring you behind the scenes with the people who were there. New episodes every Wednesday.
Spies don’t talk—it’s the cardinal rule of the business. But on Foreign Policy’s podcast I Spy, we get them to open up. We hear from the operations people: the spies who steal secrets, kill adversaries, and turn agents into double agents. Each episode features one spy telling one dramatic story.
The United States is in the midst of a dramatic political realignment with shifting views on national security, economics, technology, and the role of government in our lives. Saagar Enjeti and Marshall Kosloff explore this with thinkers, policymakers, and more.
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Journalists, policymakers, diplomats and scholars discuss under-reported news, trends and topics from around the world. Named by The Guardian as “One of 27 Podcasts to Make You Smarter” Global Dispatches is podcast about foreign policy and world affairs.
Since 2010, siblings and journalists Abby Martin and Robbie Martin have been doing Media Roots Radio, a political podcast with a critical eye on US foreign policy, political partisanship and what people can do to fight back. Conversational, controversial, passionate and explicit, Media Roots stands apart from the majority of podcasts coming from a similar point of view. Listen to all previous episodes on soundcloud, itunes, spotify and stitcher. All $5 and up patrons get an exclusive bonus e ...
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War and Peace is a new podcast series from the International Crisis Group (https://www.crisisgroup.org/). Olga Oliker and Hugh Pope interview experts about all things Europe and its neighborhood from Russia to Turkey and beyond. Their guests shed new light on everything that helps or hinders prospects for peace. A podcast member of the EuroPod:https://www.bullemedia.eu/europod production network.
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Small bites on Transatlantic Security, NATO, the EU, Russia, and all things Europe. Hosted by Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend at the Center for a New American Security.
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Hosts Melanie Marlowe and Christopher Preble debate their way through some of the toughest and most contentious topics related to war, international relations, and strategy. This podcast is brought to you by War on the Rocks.
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The world’s number one government-affiliated think tank. ADBI is the think tank of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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Ep 406 | Moral Order AND Social Justice? | Guest: Justin Giboney
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Where injustice exists, is it possible for Christians on both the Left and Right to agree to find solutions? Justin Giboney, Democrat and founder of the AND Campaign, joins us to offer his view on ways to pursue bipartisan agreement on today’s hot-button political and social issues. --- Today's Sponsor: Annie's Kit Clubs has the perfect subscriptio…
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Around The Empire
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Ep 214 Fiasco in Alaska, US/China Relations feat Peter Lee
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Guest: Peter Lee. We talk about the Fiasco in Alaska aka the Alaska Summit talks between the US and China on March 18th where Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security advisor Jake Sullivan met with top Chinese diplomats including Yang Jiechi, the Director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office in China. The preaching by the…
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New Books in World Affairs
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Christopher R. Dietrich, "A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present" (John Wiley & Sons, 2020)
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The field of US foreign-relations history is not what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. Earlier historians narrowly defined the field as diplomatic history and kept vast swathes of the United States’ interactions with the world from being explored. In the middle of the 1990s, for example, even the very consideration of gender in the history…
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New Books in South Asian Studies
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Kama Maclean, "British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947" (NewSouth, 2020)
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Commonwealth, curry and cricket: now that explains India and Australia! Not really, and not according to today's guest. Kama Maclean discusses her book British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, Intercolonial Relations and the Empire, 1901-1947 (NewSouth, 2020). In contemporary bilateral relations, great emphasis has been placed on India and…
Omnicom's global diversity, equity and inclusion officer stops by to discuss DEI, the #StopAAPIHate movement, April Fools' Day stunts and more. From PRWeekBy PRWeek
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The President's Inbox
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The U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan, With Max Boot
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Max Boot, CFR's Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow in national security studies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss President Biden's recent announcement to completely withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan before September 11, 2021.By Council on Foreign Relations
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Quiggin Report
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EP #133 | Why Their Jihad Ends in Genocide
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Once Islamists gain limited power, such as they have done in Nigeria, violence levels increase and widespread killing begins. When the Islamists gain absolute power, they become genocidal, as has been seen with the multiple cases of genocide attempted by ISIS. This is the nature of any ideology that considers itself as a supremacist ideology. Eithe…
This episode features a discussion with retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges. He served until 2017 as the commanding general of US Army Europe and now holds the pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis. Listen as he shares his insights on the topic of European defense—including a range of issues that make it especially …
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The China in Africa Podcast
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The U.S.'s Blue Dot Network vs. China's Belt & Road Initiative
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In the run-up to last Friday's U.S.-Japan summit at the White House, there had been a lot of talk that President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga would announce a new initiative to challenge China's Belt and Road Initiative. In the end, it turned out that the two leaders did not address infrastructure development in their summit's joint …
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New Books in South Asian Studies
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N. S. Hawley and S. S. Pillai, "Many Mahābhāratas" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai's book Many Mahābhāratas (SUNY Press, 2021) is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in…
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The Realignment
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118 | Dr. Kevin Sabet: 4/20 Special: America’s Decriminalizing Drugs, What’s Next?
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Email us your thoughts about this episode, or any episode, at realignmentpod@gmail.com Buy a book using our bookshop link: https://bookshop.org/shop/therealignment Dr. Kevin Sabet, President and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and author of Smokescreen: What the Marijuana Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know, joins The Realignment to reflect on t…
What are China's international ambitions and how does Beijing seek to achieve them? Johns Hopkins professor Daniel S. Markey joins the show to discuss how the People’s Republic of China has pursued evolving strategies in discrete regions and to explore what strategic options are open to the United States in response. Daniel S. Markey bio Daniel S. …
In this podcast, the University of Chicago’s Anjali Adukia presents her research on the link between school sanitation infrastructure, education growth, and development in India. Adukia describes the importance of latrine construction in schools for driving primary school enrollment, particularly among girls. She also discusses the policy implicati…
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Lowy Institute: Live Events
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Dave Sharma and Peter Khalil on Australia’s Place in the World
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On Monday 19 April, Peter Khalil MP and Dave Sharma MP had a discussion about Australia’s place in the world with Lowy Institute’s Director of Research Alex Oliver. They covered: what Australia should be doing in the world as an engaged middle power, Australia-China relations, and the fight against climate change.Peter Khalil is the Federal Labor M…
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Global Security
The health of Alexei Navalny is becoming a question of diplomatic urgency. The Russian opposition leader is on a hunger strike in prison — and his health deteriorating. "We have communicated to the Russian government, that what happens to Mr. Navalny in their custody is their responsibility and they will be held accountable by the international com…
Will we remember early 2021 as a key escalatory moment in offensive cyber operations? Three top experts join us to unpack the implications of two major recent cyber operations — the SolarWinds hack attributed to Russia and the Microsoft Exchange hack by China. What does it all mean? What should the United States do? What should it have done differe…
China today is undergoing tremendous domestic changes while it is adopting a bolder foreign policy giving rise to Sino-American competition. At the center of it all is Xi Jinping– the general secretary of the Chinese Community Party, the president of China, and the paramount leader for nearly 10 years. What changes to China have Xi Jinping made? Do…
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Ep 405 | Glorifying God Through Singleness & Dating | Guest: Jonathan Pokluda
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Today we're talking to Pastor Jonathan Pokluda of Harris Creek Church in Waco, Texas. We'll be discussing the world of dating and relationships within Christianity. Jonathan has insight on whether Christians should use dating apps, as well as encouragement for those who may not know that God calls many people to remain single in their lives. --- To…
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Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
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With American Troops Departing, What Comes Next For Afghanistan?
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On April 14th President Biden announced that American Troops will be leaving Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, formally ending US military engagement after twenty years of war. What contributed to this decision? What impact will it have on internal dynamics in Afghanistan and does this mean the Taliban will gain control? On the line with me to dis…
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The Strategy Bridge
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The U.S. Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 with John McManus
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By the summer of 1945, 1.8 million American soldiers were serving in the war against Japan in the Pacific and Asia. This included 21 U.S. Army infantry and airborne divisions plus independent regimental combat teams and tank battalions. In this episode of the Strategy Bridge Podcast we talk with Dr. John McManus about the role the Army played in th…
Bro History Origins of the Russo-Ukrainian War On today’s episode, we explain how the circumstances set by the end of Cold War led up to the current crises between Russia and Ukraine. Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brohistory #191 Origins of the Russo-Ukrainian War szamotahBy Russia
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GZero World with Ian Bremmer
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Can we fix the planet the same way we broke it? Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert on extreme climate solutions
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In a wide-ranging interview with Ian Bremmer, Pulitzer Prize-winning climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert assesses the current state of the climate crisis and answers a simple question: how screwed are we? And as the climate continues to warm at a record pace, she unpacks some of the more extreme climate solutions that some increasingly desperate n…
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Alison McDowell: In The Great Reset’s New World Empire, Humans Have Become Minable Commodity
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Alison McDowell discusses the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s (Great Reset) goals of a post-human and transhumanist world. The powers of global financial capital seek to create a mechanized planetary computer using blockchain technologies, digital identities, sensor networks, AI, AR, geofencing, human capital bonds, and so forth to classify, tag, tr…
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Alison McDowell: In The Great Reset’s New World Empire, Humans Have Become Minable Commodity
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Alison McDowell discusses the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s (Great Reset) goals of a post-human and transhumanist world. The powers of global financial capital seek to create a mechanized planetary computer using blockchain technologies, digital identities, sensor networks, AI, AR, geofencing, human capital bonds, and so forth to classify, tag, tr…
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Global Security
Fifty years ago this week, the first official American delegation in decades was invited to China to play pingpong. The games led to former US President Richard Nixon’s visit to China the next year — and the normalization of US-China relations. Those games have never been forgotten. And now, original players are calling for renewed diplomacy as ten…
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with Hilary Matfess (a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and a Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace), and Robert Nagel (a postdoctoral research fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Secu…
In January, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on the World Health Organization to fully investigate the possibility that the COVID-19 virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. He cited new U.S. intelligence that raises troubling questions. But China’s rulers have not been forthcoming. Is the World Health Organization making a serious attem…
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Brussels Sprouts
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NATO, China, and Russia: A Balancing Act? with Sara Bjerg Moller and Ian Brzezinski
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Sara Bjerg Moller and Ian Brzezinski join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the future of NATO and its ability to balance security challenges from both China and Russia.Sara Bjerg Moller is an Assistant Professor at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University, where she directs the International Secu…
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Polar Geopolitics
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Assessing the future of Arctic shipping in the wake of the Suez Canal incident
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Could the incident of the Ever Given running aground in the Suez Canal, disrupting global trade for six days, be a turning point that leads to an expansion of container shipping along the Northern Sea Route and other Arctic passages? Or will the risks and costs associated with Arctic shipping, even when taking climate change and geopolitics into co…
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Undercurrents
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Episode 77: The post-pandemic gig economy, and China's 14th five-year plan
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This week the Undercurrents team dive into two critical issues for the global economy. Amrit speaks to Chris Sabatini from the US & Americas programme about his latest briefing on how governments and economic institutions can protect informal workers in the post-pandemic gig economy. Then Ben is joined by Yu Jie from the Asia-Pacific Programme, who…
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Graham Smith, "Can Democracy Safeguard the Future?" (Polity, 2021)
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Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term. In Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? (Polity Press, 2021), Graham Smith, a leading scholar of democratic …
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Policy, Guns & Money
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Australia’s WPS National Action Plan, work in intelligence, Covid-19 response in the Pacific
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Earlier this week, Australia’s second WPS National Action Plan outlines how Australia will take forward our national commitments to the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Emilia Currey is joined by Lisa Sharland, ASPI’s Deputy Director of Defence, Strategy & National Security and Head of International Program to discuss the plans strategic outcomes,…
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The China in Africa Podcast
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How Chinese Business Practices Are Disrupting the Kenyan Fishing Industry
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Chinese seafood buyers are reportedly cutting out Kenyan middlemen and working directly with local fishermen for lobsters and other fish products, according to a report in the East African newspaper. Fishermen, for their part, aren't complaining. They're getting to work directly with customers wh provide access to an enormous consumer market back i…
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks on the considerations schools face in terms of reopening, taking into account their individual needs as well as public health and CDC recommendations. Jacob Carpenter, education reporter at the Houston Chronicle, discusses best practices for framing stories related to this t…
Wilson talks about working with the Detroit Youth Choir on multiple projects, social justice, working at an independent agency and more. From PRWeekBy PRWeek
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Media Roots Radio
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Draconian Police State Overreach Against Left Activist, Starving Yemen, Criminalizing the Poor
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Abby and Robbie Martin go over headlines in the first part of the show, including Biden's increasing the already massive Pentagon budget, criminalization of the poor and the protesters going on hunger strike to call attention to the US-backed starvation of Yemen. At 45 minutes, they are joined by leftist activist Ryan Wentz to discuss the real stor…
Chris, Zack, and Melanie discuss Hal Brands and Charles Edel’s article “A Grand Strategy of Democratic Solidarity.” Is it possible, and is it wise, to construct a grand strategy of democratic solidarity to counter China and Russia? How might the United States and other countries implement this strategy in practice? Should President Joe Biden host a…
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#228: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency (Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes)
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President Joe Biden is approaching his 100th day in office, yet his ultimate win against incumbent Donald Trump was never a foregone conclusion. In their new book, “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,” political reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes recount Biden’s perilous journey to the White House — from initial primary losses to …
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Overwatch
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E53: What Happens When Iran’s Supreme Leader Dies?
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The struggle to succeed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is growing intense. Its outcome will have significant consequences for Iran, the Middle East, and the US. Khamenei’s health has been failing for years, and his retirement or passing seems increasingly imminent. Current indicators suggest that his successor will be more hardline and less wi…
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Ep 404 | Should Christians Get Botox? | Q&A
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Today we'll be answering audience-submitted questions! We'll talk about whether Christians can or should get Botox treatments, whether Christians should follow the crowd and put pronouns in their bios, what the future of America holds for all of us, and a few other great topics as well. --- Past Episodes Mentioned: Ep 335 | Understanding the Biblic…
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New Books in East Asian Studies
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Jürgen P. Melzer, "Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jürgen Melzer’s Wings for the Rising Sun: A Transnational History of Japanese Aviation (Harvard UP, 2020) traces the history of Japanese aviation from its origins with hot-air balloons in the 1870s until the end of the Pacific War in 1945. Melzer’s narrative centers around three themes: transnational technology transfer and Japan’s efforts to attai…
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New Books in East Asian Studies
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Jonathan Chatwin, "Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China" (Manchester UP, 2019)
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Changan Jie, or Long Peace Street, stretches across central Beijing. Along it are several critical historical sites, including Zhongnanhai, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City: all important to Beijing’s history as the center of Imperial, Republican and then Communist China. Jonathan Chatwin, in his book Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern Chin…
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New Books in European Studies
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David Hosaflook (trans.), "The Siege of Shkodra: Albania's Courageous Stand Against Ottoman Conquest, 1478" (2017)
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Mehmet the Conqueror shook Europe to its foundations when he captured Constantinople in 1453 and, over the next decades, the Ottoman sultan continued his westward advance through the Balkans and the Mediterranean. But one Albanian fortress became an “unexpected bone in Mehmed’s throat” (xviii). David Hosaflook’s The Siege of Shkodra is the first En…
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New Books in European Studies
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Dana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Political Theorist and activist Dana Mill’s latest new book, Rosa Luxemburg (Reaktion Books, 2020), is part of an extensive series of books published by Reaktion Books, Ltd, which focuses both on the ideas or creations and the lives of many leading cultural figures of the modern period. These volumes are not long, but they are thorough, and they he…
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The Realignment
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117 | Elliot Ackerman, Part II: What Would a War with China Look Like?
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Subscribe to The Realignment’s Substack, now released on Thursdays: https://therealignment.substack.com/Check out Elliot and Admiral Stavridis’s Bookshop recommendations on the U.S. and China, foreign policy, and warfare: https://bookshop.org/lists/2034-admiral-james-stavridis-and-elliot-ackerman-book-recommendations Elliot Ackerman, co-author of 2…
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Essential Geopolitics: Understanding Spain’s Economic Rollercoaster
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In this episode of the Stratfor Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks to Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor’s Senior Europe Analyst at RANE. This month, the Spanish government announced a plan to spend some 70 billion euros in EU funds in the next three years. Spain had one of the worst-performing economies in the world in 2020, contr…
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Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
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How the Course of Human History Has Been Shaped by Infectious Disease | Charles Kenny
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The COVID-19 pandemic is just the latest iteration of what Charles Kenny calls an unending war between humanity and infectious disease. His new book "The Plague Cycle" documents and describes how the course of human history has been shaped by infectious disease from thousands of years ago to early 2021. Guest: Charles Kenny, senior fellow with the …
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Leveraging Technology for Early Warning of Spreading Infectious Illness.
The rapid rate of infection in the ongoing pandemic is catalyzing technological innovation to prevent the next potential pandemic from ever reaching a global scale. Technology is the essential tool for early testing, detection, and tracking. Through the use of modern data science techniques to develop epidemiological forecast models and personal te…
