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September 28, 2023

Health Policy and Initiatives
PEPFAR Reauthorization Struggle, Banned Books Week, Slovakia Democracy Test, and More

Important provisions of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could expire due to partisan divisions, threatening a widely successful initiative; libraries take part in U.S. Ba…

Podcast U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on PEPFAR at World AIDS Day event in Washington, U.S. on December 2, 2022

March 16, 2023

Iraq War
The UN in Afghanistan, Twenty Years Since the U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Black Sea Grain Initiative, and More

The UN Security Council decides whether to renew the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan; on its twentieth anniversary, Americans and Iraqis take stock of the U.S. invasio…

Podcast U.S marines and Iraqis are seen on April 9, 2003 as the statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is toppled at al-Fardous square in Baghdad, Iraq.

December 16, 2021

Biotechnology
Can Biotech Be Harnessed?

Richard Haass and Michelle McMurry-Heath, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Institute, discuss the future of biotechnology and its potential impact on food production, climate change,…

Podcast Scientist holds up a microchip

May 3, 2017

Nigeria
UN Humanitarian Operations in Nigeria

In this episode of Africa in Transition, John Campbell speaks with Edward Kallon and Peter Lundberg, of the United Nations. The podcast discusses the vast humanitarian challenges facing the Lake Chad…

Podcast Two people walk past World Food Program tents in Northern Nigeria.

April 22, 2016

China
Podcast: What China’s Militarism Means for the World

In this week’s Asia Unbound podcast, I chat with Dr. Peter Navarro, professor of economics and public policy at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the provocative new book Crouching …

Podcast What China's Militarism Means for the World