What if a stronger, more coordinated security alliance could change the game? Imagine pooled intelligence, shared logistics, and joint training that turns scattered aid into a seamless defense network. That’s not NATO—yet—but it could be a European-led pillar that fills the gaps, standardizes ammunition, and speeds up decision-making. For Ukraine, that means predictable support, not month-to-month survival.

And that’s why more EU nations must step up—not out of charity, but out of self-interest. Russia’s war is a direct threat to European stability. Every extra artillery shell, every Patriot system, every fighter jet sent now shortens the war and deters future aggression. Hesitation only emboldens Moscow. The cost of inaction—in refugees, energy crises, and shattered borders—will dwarf today’s investments.

Guest Info: Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky is a Senior Adviser at the Nihon Cyber Defense Co., Ltd. He served as Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan in 2020-2025. Prior to that he served as Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine in 2017-2020. He holds a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Ambassador Korsunsky’s previous positions include: Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey (2008-2016), Director-General of the Economic Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2008); Minister-Counselor and Acting Ambassador at the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA (2000-2005).

Guest Info: Eric Olander is the co-founder of the China Global South Project, an independent, non-partisan media initiative dedicated to exploring every facet of China’s engagement in Africa. Eric is a fluent Mandarin-speaker and a longtime China-watcher with more than 25 years of journalism experience at many of the world’s leading media companies, including CNN, the BBC, and FRANCE24, among others.

Guest Info: Dr. Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is a Visiting Professor at the China Foreign Affairs University (Beijing), a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South (Rabat), and a former Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Guest Info: Professor Jamsheed Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington.

Guest Info: Dr. Vali Kaleji is an expert in regional studies, Central Asia, and Caucasian studies based in Tehran, Iran. He has published numerous articles on Eurasian issues with the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor, the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, and the Valdai Club.

But while the left pushes for this transformation, the right is quietly building a counteroffensive. Donald Trump is wasting no time gearing up for the midterms, leveraging his formidable base to back a new wave of "America First" candidates. With a laser focus on turnout and a strategy that weaponizes culture war issues, the former president is positioning himself as the kingmaker of the 2026 cycle, aiming to reclaim a congressional majority and cement his vision for the GOP's future. We’ll break down the battle lines.

Why does this matter now? As America turns inward, the geopolitical stakes couldn't be higher. The U.S.-China competition is quietly reshaping global alliances, and whoever wins the technological race for AI and quantum computing will define the next century. With American democracy facing a major test this November, the outcome here will directly impact that global contest.

Dr. Michael Patrick joins the latest show to discuss more.

Guest Info: Dr. Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington.

Guest info: Dr. Alexander John Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

Guest Info: Dr. Marcus De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

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Guest Info: Dr. John MacCormick is a computer science author, educator, and researcher. He grew up in New Zealand, studied mathematics and computer science in England, and now lives in Pennsylvania, USA. His latest book is called "Thinking AI: How Artificial Intelligence Emulates Human Understanding."

Guest Info: Dr. Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Guest Info: Professor Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington.

We’ll break down the new risks—public backlash, sanctions, and the rise of populism that doesn’t want their money. Plus, we’ll look at the deeper trend: political divisions aren’t just between left and right anymore. Around the world—from Brazil to Hungary to India—the old party loyalties are crumbling. Fragmentation, extremism, and anti-establishment movements are reshaping democracy. So, are oligarchs fleeing because parties can no longer protect them? Or are they building new forms of influence outside politics?

Guest Info: Dr. Christopher A. Hartwell is Professor of International Business Policy, ZHAW School of Management and Law, and Professor of International Management, Kozminski University.

Scholars warn this isn’t just bad religion — it’s a threat to democratic norms. When faith abandons institutional checks, embraces conspiracy narratives, and sanctifies political victory over civic process, democracy weakens from within. We’ll explore how “Christian nationalism” reshapes worship into political spectacle, why pluralism suffers, and what it means when pastors start using pulpits as campaign stages.

Guest Info: Dr. Matthew Boedy has written for many publications and authored three books. He's appeared on CNN and MSNBC and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other media outlets. He has been a leader in faculty organizing since 2020 as president of the Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors. He is the author of the book called "The Seven Mountains Mandate-Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy."

Guest Info: Dr. Sergiy Korsunsky is a Senior Adviser at the Nihon Cyber Defense Co., Ltd. He served as Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan in 2020-2025. Prior to that he served as Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine in 2017-2020. He holds a diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Ambassador Korsunsky’s previous positions include: Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey (2008-2016), Director-General of the Economic Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006-2008); Minister-Counselor and Acting Ambassador at the Embassy of Ukraine in the USA (2000-2005).

Guest Info: Dr. Richard Vinen specializes in twentieth century history. His current research is on Modern Britain He published Thatcher’s Britain (Simon and Schuster, 2009) and is currently working on a study of military service in post-war Britain. Previously he has worked mainly on twentieth century France and produced a number of publications on Vichy, the fourth republic and the Algerian War.

Guest Info: Dr. Jamsheed Choksy is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Jamsheed Choksy’s research broadly covers the development of societies, especially sectarian communities, in Central Asia, the Near East and South Asia studied through interdisciplinary approaches involving history, religious studies, international affairs, politics, anthropology, archaeology, language.

Guest Info: Professor Kurt Weyland's research interests focus on democratization and authoritarian rule, on social policy and policy diffusion, and on populism in Latin America and Europe. He has drawn on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela. After receiving a Staatsexamen from Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz in 1984, a M.A. from UT in 1986, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1991, he taught for ten years at Vanderbilt University and joined UT in 2001. He has received research support from the SSRC and NEH and was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC, in 1999/2000 and at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, in 2004/05. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Associate Editor of the Latin American Research Review.

Guest info: Dr. Michael Green is CEO of the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Previously, he was Director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. During the George W. Bush administration, Green served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. He is the author of Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzo, among other books.

Guest Info: Mr. Avraham (Avrum) Burg is a thinker, a writer and a peace activist. Avrum Burg began his political career in the movement against the Lebanon War. He continued on to a long political career where he served in a variety of public positions including in the Knesset as a member of the Labor Party, Speaker of the Knesset, and Chairman of the Jewish Agency.

Guest Info: Prof. Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at Indiana University - Bloomington. In 2008, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities and served as a member of the council until 2019.

On one side, you have Ukraine. A nation that, despite the cold and the constant pressure, is more unified than ever. We’re seeing it in places you can’t measure on a map—in the secret ceremonies where special forces bind themselves to centuries of warrior tradition, reminding themselves that they are not just soldiers, but a single, unbreakable 'pack' . This isn’t just about holding the line; it’s about identity. It’s about survival.

And on the other side? Russia. A country that increasingly looks strong only on the surface. Sure, the cafes in Moscow are still open, but beneath that facade, the confidence is cracking . The Kremlin is burning through unimaginable resources—over 1,280,000 troops lost, thousands of tanks destroyed—just to grind forward a few meters at a time . They are paying an insane price of 156 soldiers for every square kilometer of land they occupy .

Today, we’re going to look at the shifting momentum of this war. How Ukrainian unity is solidifying into an unbreakable wall, and why Russia—despite its size—is starting to show the cracks of a losing effort.

Guest Info: Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based journalist. His recent book is Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, the Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin.

Guest Info: Dr. Jamsheed Choksy is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Jamsheed Choksy’s research broadly covers the development of societies, especially sectarian communities, in Central Asia, the Near East and South Asia studied through interdisciplinary approaches involving history, religious studies, international affairs, politics, anthropology, archaeology, language.

Guest info: Professor Michael C. Desch is the Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and founding Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the O'Brien Notre Dame International Security Center.

Guest Info: Professor Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at Indiana University - Bloomington. In 2008, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities and served as a member of the council until 2019.

Guest info: Professor Jamsheed Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at Indiana University - Bloomington. In 2008, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities and served as a member of the council until 2019.

Guest Info: Professor Paul Poast is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where his area of research and teaching is international relations.

Carrie Gibson is the author of three works of history: The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas (2026), El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America (2019), and Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean From Columbus to the Present Day (2014). Prior to gaining a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge in 2011, she worked as journalist for The Guardian and Observer in London. She is currently living in Seoul, South Korea.

Dr. Alexander John Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

Guest Info: Dr. Jamsheed Choksy is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Jamsheed Choksy’s research broadly covers the development of societies, especially sectarian communities, in Central Asia, the Near East and South Asia studied through interdisciplinary approaches involving history, religious studies, international affairs, politics, anthropology, archaeology, language.

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Professor Kurt Weyland is Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts in the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Professor Weyland's research interests focus on democratization and authoritarian rule, on social policy and policy diffusion, and on populism in Latin America and Europe. He has drawn on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela. His latest book, Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism.

Guest: Dr. Jamsheed Choksy is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Professor Jamsheed Choksy’s research broadly covers the development of societies, especially sectarian communities, in Central Asia, the Near East and South Asia studied through interdisciplinary approaches involving history, religious studies, international affairs, politics, anthropology, archaeology, language.

Professor Paul Poast is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

In this brand-new conversation, we’ll explore why this decades-old problem isn't just a statistic, but a powerful force that still dictates the lives of billions and determines the future of our global community.

Professor David Lay Williams is the professor of political science at DePaul University. He is the author of the new book called "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx."

Mr. Sergiy Korsunsky is the former ambassador of Ukraine to Japan. He is now a senior adviser at Nihon Cyber Defence and distinguished global scholar at Temple University, Japan Campus.

Ms. Elizabeth Dent is the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where she focuses on U.S. foreign and defense policy toward the Gulf states, Iraq, and Syria. She was previously the director for the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, managing the day-to-day U.S. defense relationship with the nations of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and many more. Prior to that, she served as the special assistant to the special presidential envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, supporting diplomatic engagements with coalition countries and working with local partners on the ground in Iraq and Syria to accelerate the campaign against ISIS.

Dr. Hai Hong Nguyen, is the Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at College of Arts and Sciences of VinUniversity in Hanoi, Vietnam.

He is also the Vietnamese Fulbright Visiting Scholar in Residence at the School of International Service at American University (10/2024-7/2025).

Dr. Maria Victoria Murillo is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press 2001) (translated as Sindicatos, Coaliciones Partidarias y Reformas de Mercado en América Latina by Siglo XXI Editores), Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policymaking in the Reform of Latin American Public Utilities (Cambridge University Press 2009), and the co-author of Non-Policy Politics: Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies with Ernesto Calvo (Cambridge University Press 2019) and Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions (Cambridge University Press, Element in Latin American Politics and Society Series, 2019) with Daniel Brinks and Steven Levitsky.

Dr. Michael Jonathan Green is professor and chief executive officer at the United States Studies Centre. Previously Dr Green was Senior Vice President for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is on leave from Georgetown University where he was Director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He served on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House from 2001 through 2005.

Dr. Alexander J. Motyl is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark.Alexander J. Motyl (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1984) is professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. He served as associate director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University in 1992-1998. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, he is the author of six academic books and the editor or co-editor of over fifteen volumes.

Professor Kurt Weyland's research interests focus on democratization and authoritarian rule, on social policy and policy diffusion, and on populism in Latin America and Europe. He has drawn on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including insights from cognitive psychology, and has done extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela. His latest book, Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism.

Peter Chai is a Ph.D. Researcher at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University. He holds a BA in Economics and MA in Political Science from Waseda University. His research areas are political sociology, comparative politics, and public opinion, with a regional focus on East Asia.

Dr. Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China. Previously, he was a Professor of The Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation in Sao Paulo, where he served as the coordinator of their International Relations Program from December 2012 until December 2013.

Dr. Hai Hong Nguyen is currently a senior lecturer of politics, social change, and international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity in Vietnam. He is a political scientist and an experienced lecturer/researcher in politics and international relations.

Mr. Thomas Patrick Gehl stands as a towering figure in global business and law, a visionary leader who commands influence across the most dynamic markets of the United States and China. His role as a trusted advisor is further distinguished by appointments from President Bill Clinton to the Executive Office of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality and ongoing service on United Nations advisory bodies.

Dr. Jamsheed K. Choksy is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University.

Dr. Marcus Vinicius De Freitas focuses on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Mr. Johan Norberg is an author, lecturer and documentary filmmaker, born in Sweden. He received his M.A. in the History of Ideas from the University of Stockholm, and is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. and the European Centre for International Political Economy in Brussels. His new book is called "Peak Human: What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations."

Dr. Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy FRHS is an academic historian and professor of history at the University of Virginia. His new book is about to be out soon.

Dr. Jamsheed K. Choksy is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University.

Dr. Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Dr. Alexander Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires, and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction.

Michael Johnston is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Emeritus at Colgate University. Professor Johnston joins the latest conversation to share more from his amazing book.

Kurt Weyland is Professor of Government and Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford (1991) and has conducted extensive field research in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela. His work has drawn considerable inspiration from cognitive-psychological insights and has increasingly combined political science with historical analysis. His amazing book is called "Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat."

Jamsheed K. Choksy is Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University.

Dr. Alexander Motyl is an American historian, political scientist. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

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Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is a specialist in the transnational history of West Africa rice, peasant farmers in the pre-colonial Upper Guinea coast and enslaved laborers on antebellum Lowcountry South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations. She is the author of the new book called "COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during

the Civil War."

Dr. Dan Reiter is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science at Emory University. His scholarly interests include interstate conflict, gender and international relations, civil-military relations, alliances, military effectiveness, public opinion and foreign policy, war termination, and others. His new book is called "Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars."

Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at Indiana University - Bloomington. In 2008, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities and served as a member of the council until 2019.

Ilya Somin is an American legal scholar. He is a law professor at George Mason University, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, a blogger for the Volokh Conspiracy, and a former co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review.

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Dr. Hai Hong Nguyen is currently a senior lecturer of politics, social change, and international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity in Vietnam. He is a political scientist and an experienced lecturer/researcher in politics and international relations. Prior to joining VinUniversity, Dr. Nguyen held different positions in Vietnam and Australia as senior lecturer, international development manager/specialist. Currently, he is one amazing fellow at the American University.

Ryan Griffiths focuses on the dynamics of secession and the study of sovereignty, state systems, and international order. He teaches a variety of courses in international relations. His two recent books include: (1) The Disunited States: Threats of Secession in Red and Blue America and Why They Won't Work (Oxford University Press, 2025); and (2) Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century (Columbia University Press, 2025, with Charles Butcher). Previously, he taught at both the University of Sydney in Australia and at John Hopkins University.

Professor Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington.

Dr. Steven Howard Hahn is Professor of History at New York University. He just came out with a new book, regarding the history of Illiberalism.

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Dr. Dan Reiter is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science at Emory University. His scholarly interests include interstate conflict, gender and international relations, civil-military relations, alliances, military effectiveness, public opinion and foreign policy, war termination, and others.

Dr. Harold James, the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies at Princeton University, is Professor of History and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, and an associate at the Bendheim Center for Finance. His books include a study of the interwar depression in Germany, The German Slump (1986); an analysis of the changing character of national identity in Germany, A German Identity 1770-1990 (1989); International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (1996), and The End of Globalization (2001), which is available in 8 languages. He was also coauthor of a history of Deutsche Bank (1995), which won the Financial Times Global Business Book Award in 1996, and he wrote The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews (2001). His most recent books include Family Capitalism, Harvard University Press, 2006.

Dr. Eric Storm is a specialist in Spanish history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He also conducted extensive research into the construction of regional identities in France, Spain and Germany between 1890 and 1940. At present, I mainly publish about nationalization processes in a comparative perspective. Dr. Storm focuses on high culture (art, architecture) and more banal forms of nationalism (tourism, world fairs, domestic sphere, cuisine). His latest book is called "Nationalism: A World History."

Guest: Kurt Weyland is Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin (kweyland@austin.utexas.edu). Based on research conducted in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Venezuela, he has published many journal articles, book chapters, and seven books. One of his amazing book is called Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat.

Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction, as well as “Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires” and “Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective.”

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Dr. Jenny Mathers received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in the United States and her MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University. She joined the Department in 1992 while completing her DPhil thesis on Soviet ballistic missile defence policy from Stalin to Gorbachev. Her teaching and research spans two broad areas: Russian politics and security and gender and war.

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William J. Federer is a Senior Fellow at the D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship a ministry of Evangelism Explosion International. A nationally known speaker and best-selling author of over 20 books. His new book is called "Prayers and Presidents." You can find him on https://americanminute.com/

Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at Indiana University - Bloomington. In 2008, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to the National Council on the Humanities and served as a member of the council until 2019.

Dr. Su Xiaochen is a freelance journalist specializing in social, economic, and political issues in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as a US college application mentor at the New Zealand-based global educational consultancy Crimson Education.

Dr. Michael Patrick, an international journalist and a well-known author. Patrick has been covering international news for decades, especially the relationship between China and the US.

Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. A specialist on Ukraine, Russia and the USSR, and on nationalism, revolutions, empires and theory, he is the author of 10 books of nonfiction, as well as “Imperial Ends: The Decay, Collapse, and Revival of Empires” and “Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective.”

Emily Conrad is a PhD candidate in international politics at Fudan University in Shanghai and a fellow with the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations. She is a former journalist, she published her first book, The Faithless? The Untold Story of the Electoral College, in 2020.

Sabina Henneberg is a 2023-24 Soref Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Junior Research Program. Author of the 2020 book Managing Transition: The First Post-Uprising Phase in Tunisia and Libya (Cambridge), she has also worked as a lecturer at American University’s School of International Service.

Dr. Henneberg has wide-ranging experience in the analysis of international affairs for government agencies and private industry. She has worked with Libya-Analysis LLC, Hanover Research, American Institutes for Research, and Creative Associates International. She has served as a country specialist for Amnesty International’s North Africa Coordination Group. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow in the African Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies and has taught as an adjunct faculty member in the School of International Service at American University.

Professor Jamsheed Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington.

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John J. Pitney, Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. He received a Ph.D. from Yale University and a B.A. in political science from Union College. He has authored or coauthored a number of books, including Is Congress Broken? The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock.

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Dr Hai Hong Nguyen is currently a senior lecturer of politics, social change, and international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity.

Gina Potarca is Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Liverpool. She obtained her PhD degree at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 2014. Her research interests revolve around the application of digital, multilevel, and longitudinal methods for the study of assortative mating, the social implications of the digital revolution, and mental health.

Dr. Alexander Motyl is one political scientist and a well-known historian. Dr. Motyl joins the latest show to share his insights and analysis, regarding those critical matters.

A native of Canada, Dr. Bruce Gordon taught at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he was professor of modern history and deputy director of the St Andrews Reformation Studies Institute. He came to Yale in 2008. His research and teaching focus on European religious cultures of the late-medieval and early modern periods, with a particular interest in the Reformation and its reception. In 2021 he published The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism (Oxford) and Huldrych Zwingli. God’s Armed Prophet (Yale). The biography of Zwingli explores the roots of the Reformation and the problematic relationship between religion and violence. His John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion (Princeton 2016) looks at the reception from the sixteenth century to the age of YouTube of one of the defining works of the Reformation. He is the author of Calvin (Yale, 2009), a biography of the Genevan reformer, and the Swiss Reformation (Manchester, 2002), a Choice Magazine “Outstanding Publication” (2003). His The Bible: A Global History(link is external) (Basic Books, NY) appeared in September 2024.

Professor Jamsheed Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington.

Dr. Filippo Fasulo is Co-head of the Geoeconomic Centre and Senior Research Fellow of the Asia Centre at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).

Professor Peter Slade is the Chair of the Religion Department at Ashland University. He joins the latest show to talk more, regarding AI and its impact upon modern day education.

Meg Hansen just completed a one-year research and teaching fellowship in Budapest, Hungary where she was a Senior Fellow in the Budapest Fellowship Program and a Visiting Fellow at the Danube Institute.

Previously, she served as president of a think tank in Vermont, which was an affiliate of the State Policy Network. She has been involved in New England's political, public policy, and media spheres for the past decade. Her commentaries and analyses of U.S. and global current affairs have appeared in various online and print publications including The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and American Spectator.

Dr. Adam Jortner is the Goodwin-Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion in the Department of History. He specializes in the history of religion in the American Revolution and the early nation, with particular emphasis on religious liberty, patriotism and piety, theology, and new religious traditions. His new book is entitled "A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom."

Alexander John Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator and artist-painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

Paul Webster Hare was a British diplomat for 30 years and the British ambassador to Cuba from 2001-04. He is currently a Master Lecturer in international relations at the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Stan Veuger is a senior fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives, and an affiliate of AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility. He is also a fellow at the IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs, and an affiliate of Harvard University’s Center for American Political Studies. He was a Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution in May 2022 and will be a visiting lecturer of economics at Harvard in the fall of 2024.

Arash Azizi is a writer and historian. He is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and his writings and commentary on politics, history and cinema have appeared in numerous other outlets including New York Times, New York Review of Books, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal. He is the author of “What Iranians Want: Women, Life, Freedom”.

Nina Berman is professor in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, with previous appointments at the University of Texas at Austin and The Ohio State University. Her research and teaching focus centrally on questions of exclusion and inclusion across time and space. She has published books and articles on questions related to globalization, colonialism, orientalism, tourism, minority literature, disability, translation, and intercultural contact. Her most recent books are Germans on the Kenyan Coast: Land, Charity, and Romance.

Mr. Omari Gaito was born in Ukunda on the coast south of Mombasa. He completed Kilindini Secondary School in Mombasa and has been working in the tourism industry for more than thirty years, including working as a tour driver. He has been Professor Berman’s research assistant for the past 14 years, collaborating with her on Germans on the Kenyan Coast and a recent project on remittances.

Dr. Hai Hong Nguyen is currently a senior lecturer of politics, social change, and international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity in Vietnam. He is a political scientist and an experienced lecturer/researcher in politics and international relations. Prior to joining VinUniversity, Dr. Nguyen held different positions in Vietnam and Australia as senior lecturer, international development manager/specialist, honorary research fellow, and adjunct/visiting senior lecturer at Hanoi University, Thai Nguyen University, James Cook University, the University of Queensland, and Queensland University of Technology. He has published widely on Vietnamese politics and foreign relations, international relations in Southeast Asia, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific.

Peter S. Goodman writes about the intersection of economics and geopolitics, with an emphasis on the consequences for ordinary people. He is focused on the future of globalization in the context of trade animosities between the United States and China. Peter S. Goodman is the author of “How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain” and the best-selling “Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World.”

Peter Schmidt is a writer and organizer from Clayton, Missouri. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Baffler, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Times. He serves as the founding Program Director of the Strother School of Radical Attention.

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Nation, and the Los Angeles Times. The award-winning author of Citizen Sailors. He joins the latest show to talk about his new book "The Age of Revolutions."

Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Brad Wilcox is Professor of Sociology and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The author of Get Married: Why Americans Should Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization. Wilcox studies marriage, fatherhood, and the impact of strong and stable families on men, women, and children.

Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Prof. Cedomir Nestorovic holds a PhD from the Institute of Political Science in Paris (Sciences Po). He is a Professor of Geopolitics and Islamic Business at ESSEC Business School. Professor Nestorovic is the author of the book ‘Geopolitics and Business, Relevance and Resonance’, published by Springer in 2023.

Alexander Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator and artist-painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

Mónica A. Jiménez is a poet and historian. Her research and writing explore the intersections of law, race, and empire in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her book, Making Never Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, which offers a legal history of race and exception in the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico.

Gabriele Manca works on the editorial board of ISPI, the Italian Institute for International Political Studies, and occasionally writes as a freelancer, mainly covering Asian (particularly Chinese) geoeconomic and geopolitical affairs.

Ayesha Siddiqa is an independent scholar, an author and a columnist with a specialization in military affairs and politics of South Asia and Islam. Known for her bold writings on issues that people dare not touch, she did her Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies, King’s College, University of London.

Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wxyGBjdPt4

Jim Carlton, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, joins the latest show to talk about his new article called "Chinese-Americans Are Pushing San Francisco Toward the Political Center."

Sam Moyn received a doctorate in modern European history from the University of California-Berkeley in 2000 and a law degree from Harvard University in 2001. He came to Yale from Harvard University, where he was Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Professor of History. Before this, he spent 13 years in the Columbia University history department, where he was most recently James Bryce Professor of European Legal History.

Eli Friedman has a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and has been on the faculty of the ILR School since 2011. His primary areas of interest are China and Asia, development, social movements, urbanization, and work and labor. He is the author of "The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City" (Columbia 2022)

Katlyn Carter is a political and intellectual historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, specializing in the American and French Revolutions. Her research focuses on the origins of modern representative democracy through the study of political practices and institutions.

Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security. Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project.

Dr. Fields-Black’s new book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War (Oxford University Press, trade list, February 2024) offers the fullest account to date of Tubman’s Civil War service. This narrative history tells the untold story of the Combahee River Raid from the perspective of Tubman and the enslaved people she helped to free based on new sources not previously used by historians, as well as new interpretations of sources familiar to Tubman’s biographers. It is the story of Harriet Tubman’s Civil War service during which she worked as a cook and nurse in Beaufort, SC, and gathered intelligence among freed people and enslaved Blacks. It is the story of enslaved people who labored against their wills on seven rice plantations, ran for their lives, boarded the US gunboats, and sailed to freedom.

Alexander John Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator and artist-painter. He is a resident of New York City. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

Rajan Menon is a political scientist. Currently, Dr. Menon is the Emeritus Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science at the City College of New York.

For more information, regarding his book, please visit the website:

https://www.patrickchovanec.com/about/

Professor David Lewis teaches and researches on international relations and peace and conflict studies, with an additional strand of research focusing on the politics of authoritarian states. In regional terms, most of his research has explored post-Soviet politics, notably in Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard, 1990) is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. He is Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy and co-PI of the America in the World Consortium. Feaver is author of Thanks for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the Military (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Dr. Vita Golod obatained her PhD in economics. She is a Junior Research Fellow of the Modern Studies Department at the A. Yu. Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies. She is the Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Sinologists. She Co-founded of the Ukrainian Platform for Contemporary China.

Jonah Winter is the award-winning author of more than 40 children's books that promote social justice, facts, artistic expression, nonconformity and baseball. His books include three New York Times Best Illustrated Books Diego, Here Comes The Garbage Barge!, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case Of RBG Vs. Inequality, along with Jane Addams Children’s Book Award recipient and Kirkus Prize finalist, Lillian’s Right to Vote, New York Times Notable Children’s Book, My Name is James Madison Hemings, New York Times Editors' Choice, You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!, and New York Times Best Seller, Barack.

Dr. Alexander Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator and artist-painter. He is professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey and a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union.

1. Has North Korean government completely abandoned the "Unification Plan" with the South Korea?
2. How should we understand the military strategies under the current leaders from both nations?
3. Who will be a better candidate, when it comes to dealing with North Korea, and the future relations?

Maria Zuppello, one international investigative journalist joined the show to shed more lights.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr. is University Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He also served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Chair of the National Intelligence Council, and a Deputy Under Secretary of State, and won distinguished service awards from all three agencies. He is a world-renowned authority on American power in the modern era whose work has influenced generations of scholars and policy-makers.

Scott Morgan has been the President of Red Eagle Enterprises since its inception in November 2012. He uses his experience from serving in the U.S. Military to address various projects. Currently based in Washington,DC his firm specializes in US Policy towards Africa focusing on Security and Religious Liberty concerns South of the Sahara.

Klas Lundström is a writer and investigative reporter who focuses on environmental issues, mining, and post-war societies. Lundström is a staff writer for the Swedish newspaper Tidningen Global (Global Magazine). As a freelancer, his work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, New Internationalist, Inverse, and elsewhere. 

Lundström is also the author of numerous books, for example, on Mongolia's doomed love affair with coal, Indonesia's path from Suharto to palm-oil bonanza, and what it's like to be neighbor to an uranium mine in the American West.

For years, the nation of Iran has become the hot topic for international community, given the fact that youths today are tired of the human right violation, political suppression, and economic manipulation by the government. Owing to all those factors, Iran has been under stricter sanctions by the west and other major powerful nations. Meanwhile, we have not seen any retrieve from the Iranian government, we need to ask the question: Do sanctions still work today? If not, what are the alternatives? Is it time for us to come up with better strategies?

Vali Nasr is the Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. He served as the eighth Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS between 2012 and 2019 and served as Senior Advisor to U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke between 2009 and 2011. His latest book is entitled "How Sanctions Work."

Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington. His research covers the development of sectarian communities in Central Asia, the Near East, and South Asia studied through interdisciplinary approaches involving religious studies, history, international affairs, politics, anthropology, archeology, language, literature.

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Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security lawyer based in New York and a Fellow at the Arabian Peninsula Institute. She runs a boutique national security law practice. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Energy and Environment and Science and Technology Sections. She is the Program Vice Chair in the Oil and Gas Subcommittee. She is also a member of the New York City Bar Association's Middle East and North African Affairs Committee and an affiliate member of the Foreign & Comparative Law Committee.

Professor Inhorn is the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) in The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. Professor Marcia Inhorn is the author of seven books and the (co)editor of thirteen. Her newest book, Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs.

Dr.Kristian Ulrichsen is the Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His research spans the history, political and international political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States and their changing position within the global order.

Dr Hai Hong Nguyen is currently a senior lecturer of politics, social change, and international relations in the College of Arts and Sciences at VinUniversity in Vietnam. He is a political scientist and an experienced lecturer/researcher in politics and international relations. Prior to joining VinUniversity, Dr. Nguyen held different positions in Vietnam and Australia as senior lecturer, international development manager/specialist, honorary research fellow, and adjunct/visiting senior lecturer at Hanoi University, Thai Nguyen University, James Cook University, the University of Queensland, and Queensland University of Technology. He has published widely on Vietnamese politics and foreign relations, international relations in Southeast Asia, Asia, and the Indo-Pacific.

Kunal Purohit is one amazing journalist from India. He joined the show to share more details.

Scott Morgan has been the President of Red Eagle Enterprises since its inception in November 2012. He uses his experience from serving in the U.S. Military to address various projects. Currently based in Washington,DC his firm specializes in US Policy towards Africa focusing on Security and Religious Liberty concerns South of the Sahara.

Scott Morgan has been the President of Red Eagle Enterprises since its inception in November 2012. He uses his experience from serving in the U.S. Military to address various projects. Currently based in Washington,DC his firm specializes in US Policy towards Africa focusing on Security and Religious Liberty concerns South of the Sahara.

Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security. Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project.

Professor Henri Barkey is Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University, and an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Jafrikayiti is an artist, author, activist, and radio show host, and works for Solidarité Québec-Haiti. Part 1 of his analysis of foreign intervention in Haiti presents a scathing critique of French, U.S., and Canadian powers who have dismantled Haitian democracy, as well as looted the country for countless decades.

Professor Pavin Chachavalpongpun worked on the topic of foreign relations of Thailand. In the case of Thailand, he argue that changing international circumstances have allowed the military regime to entrench itself in the political realm and to exploit the latest global trend to achieve self-legitimization. In this new trend, China has emerged to shift the regional balance of power and contest the hegemony of the United States, now with President Donald Trump at a wobbly helm. Elsewhere, democracy and regionalism is being seriously challenged, as prevalently seen in Europe and Asia.

Dr. Gabriel Hetland is an associate professor of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at the University at Albany. He received his PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 2015. Using ethnography and comparative historical methods Dr. Hetland studies the forces that enable and constrain the deepening and extension of democracy. This has led him to research left and right parties, social and labor movements, climate change, and national and urban politics in Latin America and the US.

Dr. Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Dr. Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School at Tufts University – America's oldest exclusively graduate school of global affairs — the founding Executive Director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context and founder and chair of Digital Planet.

Scott Morgan has been the President of Red Eagle Enterprises since its inception in November 2012. He uses his experience from serving in the U.S. Military to address various projects. Currently based in Washington,DC his firm specializes in US Policy towards Africa focusing on Security and Religious Liberty concerns South of the Sahara.

Dr. Jamsheed Choksy is a Distinguished Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University - Bloomington. Dr. Choksy is considered one of the foremost authorities on Iran, India, Islam, combining historical understanding to discuss modern issues and topics.

Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security. Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project.

Dr. Kristian Ulrichsen is the Fellow for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His research spans the history, political and international political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States and their changing position within the global order.

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@willli9755/videos

Gregory Raymond is a lecturer in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs researching Southeast Asian politics and foreign relations. He is the author of Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic Accommodation (NIAS Press 2018) and the lead author of The United States-Thai Alliance: History, Memory and Current Developments (Routledge, 2021).

Scott Morgan has been the President of Red Eagle Enterprises since its inception in November 2012. He uses his experience from serving in the U.S. Military to address various projects. Currently based in Washington,DC his firm specializes in US Policy towards Africa focusing on Security and Religious Liberty concerns South of the Sahara.

Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’s relations with the Gulf states.

Scott Morgan has been the President of Red Eagle Enterprises since its inception in November 2012. He uses his experience from serving in the U.S. Military to address various projects. Currently based in Washington,DC his firm specializes in US Policy towards Africa focusing on Security and Religious Liberty concerns South of the Sahara.

Takashi Kumon is a professor at the Institute for Asian Studies at Asia University and a visiting lecturer at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy.

Marc Lanteigne (兰马克) is one scholar, who teaches in Political Science, including international relations, comparative politics (China, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, Polar Regions), security studies and comparative political economy.

Takashi Kumon is a professor at the Institute for Asian Studies at Asia University and a visiting lecturer at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Public Policy.

Bio: Thomas Fazi is one Journalist, a writer, a translator and a socialist. His articles have appeared in numerous online and printed publications. I’m a regular contributor for UnHerd and Compact. His latest book is called "The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor?A Critique from the Left."

Joshua Eisenman is the Associate Professor of Politics. His Expertise covers

International political economy; comparative politics; development; Chinese politics; US-China relations; His latest book is called "China's Relations with Africa."

Dr. Dawn Murphy, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy at the US National War College, specializes in Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics, US-China relations, and international relations. Her research analyzes China’s interests and behavior as a rising global power towards the existing international order. Her latest book is called "China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order."

Dr. Shoaib Kahut is a PhD scholar of Shandong university (SDU), China . His research interests include Belt and Road Initiative and energy economics. He has carried out extensive research on Chinese investments across the globe and BRI. He belongs to Pakistan wherein he worked for the government and private sector as well. He regularly writes for international papers and journals.

Oren Samet is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Dissertation Fellow with the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. His research focuses on opposition parties, civil society, and authoritarianism, particularly in Southeast Asia. He was previously based in Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked for human rights NGOs and wrote political analysis for numerous outlets. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, Slate, The Diplomat, and World Politics Review, among other publications.

Shoaib Kahut is a PhD scholar of Shandong university (SDU), China . His research interests include Belt and Road Initiative and energy economics. He has carried out extensive research on Chinese investments across the globe and BRI. He belongs to Pakistan wherein he worked for the government and private sector as well. He regularly writes for international papers and journals.

Uday is one international writer, and he is one major contributor to Militant Wire, one of the most critical and trustworthy source for news.

Dr. Bhaskar Chakravorti is the Dean of global business at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is the founding executive director of Fletcher’sInstitute for Business in the Global Context, where he established and chairs the Digital Planet research program.

Dr. Alexander Motyl joined the show to share his insights.

Henoch Gabriel Mandelbaum holds a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP), where he is also a researcher at the International Relations Research Center (NUPRI). Additionally, he is affiliated with the Center for International Studies and Analyses (NEAI) at the São Paulo State University (UNESP). His research focuses on International Security, Democratization Studies, and Foreign Policy Analysis, with an emphasis on Brazil, China, the Indo-Pacific, and Latin America.

Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security. Ms. Town is also an expert reviewer for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index, where she previously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project.

Mohamed Zeeshan is a policy analyst and Editor-in-Chief of the Freedom Gazette, a policy advocacy site based in India. He is a regular writer on international affairs and his key areas of interest are Indian foreign policy, international political economy and economic development.

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is the Fellow for the Middle East at Rice

University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His research spans the

history, political and international political economy, and international relations of the Gulf States and their changing position within the global order.

Scott Morgan has been the President of Red Eagle Enterprises since its inception in November 2012. He uses his experience from serving in the U.S. Military to address various projects. Currently based in Washington,DC his firm specializes in US Policy towards Africa focusing on Security and Religious Liberty concerns South of the Sahara.

Professor Marc Lanteigne (兰马克) Teaches in Political Science, including international relations, comparative politics (China, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, Polar Regions), security studies and comparative political economy.

Dr. Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Dr. Hai Hong Nguyen holds a PhD in political science (UQ 2015). His research focuses on democratization, democratic theory, local governance and democracy, state-society relations, the impact of social media on political transformation, international relations in the Indo-Pacific region, Southeast Asia, and particularly Vietnamese politics. He has published largely on Vietnamese politics.

Joe Rachman is a freelance journalist now covering Indonesia and ASEAN stories. Joe joined the show via Zoom to share his latest article.

Dr.Kristian Coates Ulrichsen is the Fellow for the Middle East at Rice

University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His research spans the

history, political and international political economy, and

international relations of the Gulf States and their changing position

within the global order. Coates Ulrichsen is the author of five

monographs and the editor of three volumes about the Gulf States,

including Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to

the Post-Oil Era 2011), The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics, and

Policymaking (2016), and, most recently, Qatar and the Gulf Crisis

(Oxford University Press, 2020).

Paul Hockenos is a Berlin-based news reporter, and joined the show to explain more.

For more information on Christopher Gorham, please visit the site: https://www.christophercgorham.com/

For more information on the podcast, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcn9R6zigqqIGeqrM4kr-0A

Tom Lord is a researcher and writer focused on political violence and armed conflict, mostly in Europe and the Middle East. Along with Lucas Webber and War Noir, he co-founded MilitantWire.Com, where he works as an editor and regular contributor. The majority of Tom's personal work has so far focused on Greece, Turkey and the Balkans."

Aman led a research team at a private intelligence company in London in the creation of security and intelligence reports to aid European missions in West Africa. She also craft policy papers for multiple Europe-based corporations and organisations. Her expertise lies in analyzing the security landscape in countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, which have been facing the menace of two major violent extremist organizations (VEOs) for a prolonged period.

Zahra Nader is an Afghan-Canadian journalist and editor-in-chief of Zan Times, a media that covers human rights violations in Afghanistan with a focus on women, the LGBTQI community and environmental issues.

She started her career in 2011 in Kabul, writing and editing for Afghan local media outlets. In 2016, she joined the New York Times bureau in Kabul, becoming the first Afghan woman journalist to work with a mainstream English language media since 2001.

Dr. Shoaib Kahut is a PhD scholar of Shandong university (SDU), China . His research interests include Belt and Road Initiative and energy economics. He has carried out extensive research on Chinese investments across the globe and BRI. He belongs to Pakistan wherein he worked for the government and private sector as well. He regularly writes for international papers and journals.

Andrew Francisco is an artist from America whose work is widely shown at venues around the world. He has a storytelling compulsion and is a life-long student of language and languages. He sat down with Will via Zoom to talk about his latest film called "Native Place."

Shoaib Kahut is a PhD scholar of Shandong university (SDU), China . His research interests include Belt and Road Initiative and energy economics. He has carried out extensive research on Chinese investments across the globe and BRI. He belongs to Pakistan wherein he worked for the government and private sector as well. He regulalry writes for international papers and journals.

Andrew Stokols is an urban planner, designer and researcher. He is currently a Phd student at MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, City Design and Development Group.

Dr. Cheng Ming Ming is currently an Associate Professor in digital marketing and Director of the Social Media Research Lab at the School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University, Australia. He was a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Dr. Alexander J. Motyl is a professor of political science at Rutgers University-Newark. He joined the show to explain his latest article called "It’s High Time to Prepare for Russia’s Collapse."

Jenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Director of Stimson’s 38 North Program. Her expertise is in North Korea, US-DPRK relations, US-ROK alliance and Northeast Asia regional security.

Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Shoaib Kahut is a PhD scholar of Shandong university (SDU), China . His research interests include Belt and Road Initiative and energy economics. He has carried out extensive research on Chinese investments across the globe and BRI. He belongs to Pakistan wherein he worked for the government and private sector as well. He regulalry writes for international papers and journals.

Dr. Layne Vandenberg joined the Department of European & International Studies, with an affiliation with the Lau China Institute, in 2018. Layne is currently part of the King’s and University of Hong Kong joint PhD program, for which she focuses on international football politics and institutions.

Dr. Gevorg Melikyan is a policy analyst and political adviser with considerable personal, academic and professional experience in foreign and security policies, and domestic politics.

Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

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Paul Hockenos is a Berlin writer who covers renewable energy and the climate crisis. He is the prize-winning author of four books on European affairs and was a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.

Dr. John D. Ciorciari joined the show to explain more.

Marcus Vinicius De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China. He was president of the Sao Paulo Directorate of the Progressive Party, having run for vice governor of the State of Sao Paulo in 2010, where his party polled in third place with more than 1.2 million votes.

Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. New Bloom is an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific, founded in Taiwan in 2014 in the wake of the Sunflower Movement.

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As the Moscow correspondent of German Spiegel TV Adrian Geiges covered the military coup against Gorbachev, the end of the Soviet Union and the beginning of the new Russia. In 1997 he lived in Hong Kong to report about the handover of the city to China. Then he studied Chinese language in Beijing and became the long-standing Beijing correspondent of the weekly news magazine Stern. His newest book (together with Stefan Aust) is the biography „Xi Jinping – The Most Powerful Man in the World“, which reached the TOP 20 of the bestseller list in Germany. It has been released in English right now.

Zineb Riboua is research associate and program manager of Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. She specializes in China’s involvement in the Middle East, North African affairs, and Israeli-Arab relations.

Youtube Channel:

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Antonio Graceffo, PhD. China-MBA, is a China economic-analyst who has spent over 20 years in Asia, including 7 in China, and 3 in Mongolia, where he teaches economics at the American university. He is the author of 5 books about China, including Beyond the Belt and Road: China’s Global Economic Expansion and The Wushu Doctor.

Rintaro Nishimura is a first-year graduate student with the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. He writes on international relations in Northeast Asia, mostly focusing on Japanese foreign and security policy. His articles have appeared in Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, The National Interest, The Diplomat, and Northeastern University Political Review. His current research interests are focused on Japan’s Indo-Pacific strategy and the geoeconomics of the region. He can be found on Twitter (@RinNishimura) and rintaronishimura.com.

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Tom Lord is a researcher and writer focused on political violence and armed conflict, mostly in Europe and the Middle East. Along with Lucas Webber and War Noir, he co-founded MilitantWire.Com, where he works as an editor and regular contributor. The majority of Tom's personal work has so far focused on Greece, Turkey and the Balkans."

Professor Nicoletta Gullace is the associate professor for the History Department at the University of new Hampshire. Her Research Interests include: European cultural history, Modern Britain, and Women's history.

Dario Sabaghi is a freelance journalist, reporting on stories from the Middle East, joined our show.

Marc Lanteigne (兰马克) Teaches in Political Science, including international relations, comparative politics (China, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, Polar Regions), security studies and comparative political economy.

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After former Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe was assassinated, how will this nation react to the new leader? Will Kashida carry on Abe's legacy in political alliance, and economic plannings?

Dr. Marc Lanteigne (兰马克) Teaches in Political Science, including international relations, comparative politics (China, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, Polar Regions), security studies and comparative political economy.

His Current Research Interests focus on China (domestic and international politics) and East Asia (Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands).

Juan Manuel Harán is a consultant specializing in infrastructure, energy, and financing projects. He is co-founder of ReporteAsia.com, the first Spanish-language media that reports on and analyzes Asia’s economy, geopolitics, and corporations.

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Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s international analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian.

Randy Mulyanto currently covers Indonesia and Timor-Leste for media outlets in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Randy was a Taiwan correspondent, following the latest developments out of mainland China and Hong Kong.

Randy has interviewed the Timorese foreign minister on Dili's ties with Beijing, met Chinese economic migrants in Timor-Leste, reported on Timor-Leste's 2022 presidential election, profiled Timorese youths born after the 1999 referendum, and more.

Professor Dr. Klaus Mühlhahn, born in 1963 in Konstanz, has been President of Zeppelin University and Chair of Modern China Studies since June 1, 2020.

In 2019, his work "Making China Modern - From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping" was published by Harvard University Press, which has also been available in German since early summer from the publisher C. H. Beck under the title "Geschichte des modernen China - Von der Qing-Dynastie bis zur Gegenwart".

Jim Belcher (PhD, Georgetown University) is a political philosopher, researcher, and writer. He previously served as president of Providence Christian College in Pasadena, California, and was the founding lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California. He is the author of In Search of Deep Faith and Deep Church, which won a 2010 Christianity Today Book Award in church/pastoral leadership.

Daniel Bruno Davis recently completed his PhD in Politics at the University of Virginia. His dissertation research explores how dynasties sabotage accountability for corruption in the Philippines. His research looks at the origins of dynasties, how they prevent prosecutions for corruption, and how they keep getting elected. Dr. Davis received an MA from the University of Denver and a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before graduate school Dr. Davis taught English as a foreign language in China for five years.

Fleur Macdonald is a freelance journalist currently based in the south of France. She has written about culture and politics for Foreign Policy, the London Review of Books, The Guardian among others.

North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un recently emphasized again the importance of strengthening North Korea’s “self-reliant” defense and military capabilities as the stalled nuclear talks have de facto been dormant.

North Korea’s most important event for this year – the 110th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the country and late grandfather of Kim Jong Un – is scheduled on April 15. 

Professor Marc Lanteign. Professor Marc teaches in Political Science, including international relations, comparative politics (China, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, Polar Regions), security studies and comparative political economy.

Dr. Mohammadbagher Forough is a research fellow at GIGA - The German Institute of Global and Area Studies (Hamburg, Germany). He is also a research associate at Clingendael - Netherlands Institute of International Relations (The Hague). From 2016 to 2021, he was an assistant professor of International Relations at Leiden University (The Netherlands). He holds a PhD in International Security from Groningen University (The Netherlands). His research interests include global geoeconomics, infrastructure-security nexus (such as the Belt and Road Initiative - BRI), China-Middle East relations, Iranian foreign affairs. Follow him on Twitter @Mohamad_Forough.

Dr. Péter Krekó is a social psychologist and political scientist. He is the Director of Political Capital Institute, a Budapest-based think tank since 2011. He is an Associate Professor at the ELTE University. During 2016-2017 he worked as a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the United States at the Central Eurasian Studies Department of Indiana University. His main research interests are disinformation, sharp power political influence, and political tribalism. He was the co-chair of the PREVENT working group at the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) between 2013 and 2016. He received many prestigious fellowships in the last few years, such as the Reagan-Fascell Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy, He was a Europe’s Futures Visiting Fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) and Erste Foundation, and a non-resident Associate Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Institute of Policy Research. He is the author of two books. The first is entitled The Hungarian Far Right, which was co-authored by Attila Juhász. The book was published by Ibidem Verlag in 2017 and it is being distributed by the Columbia University Press. His second book on fake news and conspiracy theories was published in Hungarian in 2018, becoming a social science best-seller. He is a regular commentator in the international media, and published articles, among others, in Foreign Affairs, Guardian, Newsweek, Financial Times, and Journal of Democracy.

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After covering the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, the president of Georgia offered Will Cathcart a job as his media advisor. He was 27 years old. He moved from Charleston, SC, to Georgia, where I’ve been based ever since. In 2011, I went back to journalism. I cover geopolitics and culture in the region for CNN, Foreign Policy The Daily Beast, VICE, Lit Hub, and others. On the television side, I’ve been a local producer for National Geographic's Drugs, Inc., a consultant for Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown, and a local producer for ITV’s On Assignment.

Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a translator. New Bloom is an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific, founded in Taiwan in 2014 in the wake of the Sunflower Movement.

Sebastian Strangio is a journalist, author, and analyst focusing on Southeast Asia.

Since 2008, his writing from the region has appeared in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Economist, The New Republic, Forbes, Al Jazeera, and The Atlantic, among many other publications.

In addition to his journalism, Sebastian has become a leading commentator on politics in Cambodia and Myanmar, and his views have been quoted by major media outlets

Sebastian’s new book is entitled “ In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century"

Marc Lanteigne (兰马克) teaches in Political Science, including international relations, comparative politics (China, Asia-Pacific, Oceania, Polar Regions), security studies and comparative political economy.

Marcus De Freitas is Senior Fellow at Policy Center for the New South, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, China.

Professor Zubok was born and educated in Moscow. He studied for his undergraduate degree at the Moscow State University and studied for his PhD at the Institute for the USA and Canada in Moscow.

She is a bestselling author, journalist and columnist. She is a former foreign correspondent and columnist for The Economic Times. For the same newspaper, her column California Dreaming was about her life as an immigrant mother in America, its gun violence and shooter drills for kindergarteners. Her first book An Ordinary Life (Penguin/Viking, 2017) was on the life of the Emmy Award-nominated actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Her second book The Water Phoenix (Bloomsbury, 2020), a magical realism memoir of how she healed from childhood abuse, was in the top five bestselling nonfiction of 2020 and number one on Google India. The Water Phoenix was also the 2021 winner of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity (Non Fiction). Rituparna is now writing a novel.

TATSIANA KUZMIANKOVA is A certified public speaking coachTEDx coach

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Benjamin Franklin Transatlantic Fellows International member

International finalist at Chinese Bridge public speaking competition

National finalist at ESU International Public Speaking Competition

Founder of The Speaking Hub

Using her influence, Gabby founded one of China’s most instrumental LGBTQ organizations. She connects over 30,000 people across China around a sensitive topic. Her social media content appeals to the masses but also abides by what is accepted by Chinese officials. She strives to keep her organization moving forward, at times having to negotiate with Chinese governments.

In 2001 she moved to New York City to study artistic human anatomy at the Art Students League of New York where she met her mentor, sculptor Seiji Saito who used to be an assistant of Isamu Noguchi. In 2002 Minako started carving marble and has mastered and utilizes, unlike most modern sculptors, traditional techniques of sculpting stone by hand which is becoming an art form rarity in today's art world.

After multiple awards, in 2013 she won the public art competition in New York City and created her first monument "Lovers" for the Riverside Park, Manhattan NYC. Since then she has been designing and fabricating monuments and memorials for parks and gardens which inspired her to study "Public Art for Urban Design" at Harvard University in 2017.

Today we invite Lithuanian who tell us about the protests from their perspective.

Anthony Kinnett is the Science Curriculum Director at Indianapolis Public Schools and Co-Founder of the Chalkboard Review. Throughout his time as a Science Education major at Maranatha Baptist University and his professional career teaching a variety of education levels all things science-related, Anthony noticed a lack of one kind of much-needed input—conservative input. This led Anthony to jump feet first into the field of journalism and politics.

But what does the usual Lithuanian student think about Lithuania and China relations? Why would Lithuanians insist on human rights?

Today's guest - Gabriele, international journalist, and co-host of The Missing Piece.

His newest work - JUPITER INVINCIBLE is an augmented reality comic book series about an African-American enslaved person, Jupiter, who is suddenly given the power of immortality. The story takes place on a Southern plantation near Baltimore before the U.S. Civil War. The project is a mixture of pop culture, history, innovative technology, and dynamic storytelling to address structural racism.  

Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, and Tin House. She is a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Philadelphia who was previously based in Beijing and Hong Kong. She has reported on rice cookers and wrongful convictions, get hung up on by Edward Snowden, and eaten more robot-cooked noodles than she can count. 

Seven children and two adults have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Russian city of Kazan, officials say.

Twenty-one other people, mostly children, were injured. A 19-year-old suspect was detained. The attack happened in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, 820km (510 miles) east of Moscow.

Today's guest - Anastasia, a university student.

Today's guest - Egill Bjarnason reports on Iceland for the Associated Press and frequently writes for The New York Times, Al Jazeera English, Lonely Planet, and Hakai Magazine. Prior to covering his native Iceland for the international news media, he reported on the rest of the world for Icelandic readers, publishing features and photographs from Afghanistan, Uganda, and West Africa.

• COVID-19 in America, and the relation with India. What is the relationship? 
• The conflict between China and the Philippines? 

Today's guest - Mitchell Blatt is a journalist, columnist, and translator based in East Asia. He covers foreign affairs, travel, and culture for outlets like The National Interest, Roads & Kingdoms, and China.org.cn. 

Today's guest - Safina Nabi is an independent journalist, she is an Experienced Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the public relations and communications industry. Skilled in Journalism, Television, Newspapers, and Storytelling.

The world’s second-most populous country is now struggling to contain a second wave of infections much more severe than its first last year, which some scientists say is being accelerated by the new variant and another variant first detected in Britain. India reported 386,452 new cases on Friday, a global record.

Today's guest - Andrew Timchenko of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics joined our show today. He is Responsible for performing various kinds of research in the fields of sociology, geopolitics, psychology, statistics.

Today's guest - A native of Princeton, New Jersey, Andrew Porwancher earned degrees from Brown and Northwestern before completing his Ph.D. in history at Cambridge. Currently, he serves as the Wick Cary Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma and, from 2020-2022, the Ernest May Fellow at Harvard University. His third book, The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton, will appear in 2021. 

Initially, no group immediately claimed the attack. However, hours later, the Pakistani Taliban in a statement claimed responsibility, saying it was a suicide attack.

Today's guest - Shoaib from Pakistan. He is an Economist by education. He got his M.Phil. degree from Quaid-i-Azam University Pakistan. He has the experience of working with the Government of Pakistan.

What risks one must take? How does Chinese journalism work? Do local issues get reported?

Today's guest - anonymous journalist from China.

Today's guest - Co-Creator and the lead researcher, Steven Schwankert is an award-winning editor and writer with over 20 years of experience in Greater China, focusing on culture, media, exploration, and technology.

Today's guests - Sarah Wagner and Kate Surala.

They just came out with a new book called “Unleash Today - The Handbook on How to Maximise Your Potential in The Workplace."

Today's guest - Lea she is a student of BGU majoring in Sociology-Anthropology and Politics. She is also an entrepreneur and a writer of The LifeStyle Living, Lea's goal is to help people to reach their potential career path.

she didn’t know a word of English nor had any background in athletics. Today, she is a successful businesswoman and one of the world’s most accomplished action pistol shooters.

She retired from competitive shooting in 2018 at age 71.

In her second book, Wisdom, and Things, Koo shares the lessons she’s learned from a sport, and details the hardships she’s faced as an athlete, wife, and mother.

Today's guest - Anatoly is a Ph.D. candidate in software and information system engineering with a specialization in machine learning and hardware Cyber Security at Ben-Gurion University - Israel.

Today's guest - Sofiia from Perm, since her High school days she was part of political organizations, currently, she is studying in International University.

Second, North Korea closed its embassy in Malaysia, despite the fact that The two countries had established diplomatic ties in 1973.

The question on everyone’s mind is: What is happening to the nation right now? 

Today's guest - Dr. Zhao Tong is a senior fellow at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy. His research focuses on strategic security issues, such as nuclear weapons policy, deterrence, arms control, nonproliferation, missile defense, hypersonic weapons, and China’s security and foreign policy. 

Today's guest - Pamela Logan, In 1996, she was named Woman Explorer of the Year; the following year she started Kham Aid Foundation. She author of the book "Compassion Mandala"

Today's guest - Anna. She is the creator of Youtube channel Green&WildLiving and blog Minimal waste – extra life

How is it living in Lithuania as a foreigner? Misconceptions about living a sustainable lifestyle and being vegan? These and more will be answered today.

Famous Christian author C.S. Lewis wrote a book entitled “The problem of pain.” Even though the name of the book was not difficult, the content is rather sophisticated. We all go through ups and downs in life, experiencing pain is part of life. 

Different people might interpret “pain” variously, according to their standards, especially some religious figures. We tend to seek wisdom from these so-called “religious icons.” 

but where do you draw the line in the sand when it comes to following Christian authors, or Christian models? Should we expect them to be perfect, without sins? 

Join our show today is J.S. Park. 

J. S. Park is a hospital chaplain, published author, viral blogger, teaching pastor. He has spent nearly the past six years as an interfaith chaplain at a 1000+ beds hospital that is designated a Level 1 Trauma Center. His role includes grief counseling; attending every death, every trauma and Code Blue; assisting with end-of-life care; and supporting patient and family advocacy. He also serves as a chaplain at one of the largest nonprofit charities for the homeless on the east coast. 

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said earlier this week that Iran had followed through on its plan to make uranium metal, after Tehran had alarmed Western nations with its intent to produce the material with which the core of nuclear weapons can be made.

What would be the reaction from the US? How about the relations between China and the Iran, in terms of building nuclear development in the coming years? 

Joining me now, Marcus De Freitas “Free tas.” 

Marcus is a Senior Fellow at the Policy Center for the New South, previously known as OCP Policy Center, focusing on International Law, International Relations and Brazil, is currently a Visiting Professor of International Law and International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University (www.cfau.edu.cn) in Beijing, China. 

Mr. De Freitas holds an LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) degree from the University of Sao Paulo, a master of laws from Cornell University and a master of arts in economics and international relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Today's guest - Belarusian student Vera

The host - Gabi from Lithuania

Safina Nabi is a full time Independent multimedia journalist from South Asia based in Kashmir. She writes about gender, health, human rights, social justice, development and environment. She writes for national and international publications and is a Pulitzer center grantee. She loves to travel, trek and read.

On the 22nd of June 1941 the Germans invaded Soviet territory and entered Vilna on the 24th of June. Around 60,000 Jews lived in Vilna where they constituted 30% of the total population.

The community of Vilna which had flourished for hundreds of years was decimated during the Second World War.

Jewish history has been one of the forgotten part of the human evolution, for years, across the world, people would like to know more about the unique group and how they fought against the odds. 

Lately, I found one of the amazing books which documented more than just what we see in the museum. 

What are the economic expectation in 2021under Biden? 

Will people on both sides cheer for the joint effort again after the cold talk? 

During the national conference, Chinese President Xi Jin Ping urged everyone to follow the rules, and encouraging international partners to “trust” the capabilities of the Chinese government, China is ready to “save” the world. 

If this were to become worse, could Chinese leader Xi Jin Ping balance his trust and power among the party members? How should countries like US, Britain, Australia join together to “get real information” before it is too late? 

Back in 2005, I embarked my own journey to the United States of America. Unlike those pilgrims, I was fortunate enough to have more dollars and belongs in my pocket. After 13 years, upon returning for 2 years, until today, I am still nostalgic about the lives in the US. 

Meanwhile, our guest today is also a returnee from America. She has a whole new story to share on our show, the reasons, the purpose and the confusions she had while living and studying in the US. 

Apple is the author of the latest book called” Across the Sea.” In her book, she layout specific information about her relationship with America and how she sees this nation in 2020. 

My answer is people in New York, their English is even tougher! I don’t think most of them speak English. 

Anyway, the pandemic equally hit Ireland hard. Until the latest number came out, more than 186, 000 people are affected by the virus, 57% of the patients are under the age of 45. Dublin has 710 cases on average. 

On Thursday, the Northern Executive extended the previous six-week lockdown, which was due to end on February 6th, until March 5th.

However, our guest today is going to share more about his views on the pandemic as well as his journey of living in China, in the midst of the chaos. 

“爱尔兰奇哥”毕业于都柏林大学，他对语言学习充满热情。他曾获得爱尔兰孔子学院授予的奖学金，到北京工业大学和复旦大学进修。他在中国生活的五年间，深入学习了中国语言和文化。他现在的工作是帮助中国人移民到爱尔兰。今年开始，他开始在自媒体分享一些与爱尔兰文化相关的搞笑视频。他的梦想是成为中国和爱尔兰友谊的桥梁。

Across the ocean, China welcomed the refugees warm-heartedly, as well as giving food and “life” to the people who suffered from pain and injustice. As we can say, the friendship between China and Poland could trace all the way back. 

Will China’s rise bring threat to the world, especially the nations in Southeast Asia? How much the nations in Asia still rely on China, under the OBOR? 

While Pakistan is set to receive millions of vaccine doses, they are unlikely to swiftly alleviate the challenges of the pandemic in a country with a population of 220 million people.Pakistan is one of 92 lower-income countries eligible for free vaccines through COVAX, the global initiative and partnership that aims to provide 2 billion vaccine doses to 20 percent of the most vulnerable in the world’s poorest nations.

The identity of the resident will be anonymous for safety reasons.