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Podcast title	The World Beyond the Headlines from the University of Chicago
Website URL	http://internationalstudies.uc...
Description	The World Beyond the Headlines series is a collaborative project of the Center for International Studies, the International House Global Voices Program, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Its aim is to bring scholars and journalists together to consider major international issues and how they are covered in the media.
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1. "The Next Great Clash" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Michael Levin. In The Next Great Clash, Michael Levin presents evidence of a global political order on the verge of a historic power shift from West to East. A reemerging China is the only nation with the latent capacity to challenge American hegemony, and Levin demonstrates that such challenges to the status quo usually lead to war. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
2. "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Parag Khanna, Director of the Global Governance Initiative of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. In "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order", Parag Khanna examines the intersection of geopolitics and globalization to argue that America's dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace wherein the European Union and China compete with the United States to shape world order on their own terms. Mr. Khanna has worked previously at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland, where he specialized in scenario and risk planning, and at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he conducted research on terrorism and conflict resolution. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
3. "The Closing of the ICTY and its Effect on Justice and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: This panel explores how the impending closing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will affect justice and accountability in the Balkans including: the integration of international human rights standards on a national level, the challenges and opportunities confronting the domestic courts and the role of the media/civil society. Distinguished panelists included: M. Cherif Bassiouni, Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law and President Emeritus of the International Human Rights Law Institute; Gordana Igric, Regional Network Director of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN); Judge Shireen Avis Fisher, International Judge to the War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia & Herzegovina. From the World Beyond the Headlines series. Co-Sponsored by the Center for Eastern European and Russian/Eurasian Studies and the Human Rights Program in partnership with Amnesty International USA Program for International Justice and Accountability.
4. "The Sixth Anniversary of the Gujarat Riots" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Shabnam Hashmi, Managing Trustee and Executive Secretary of Act Now for Harmony and Democracy (ANHAD) in New Delhi, India. Presented with Professor Steven Wilkinson and Mona Mehta of the University of Chicago. The Gujarat violence was a series of communal riots that took place in the Indian State of Gujarat from February to May 2002, involving violence between Hindus and Muslims. Official estimates of the death toll tabled in the Indian parliament reported 790 Muslims and 254 Hindus killed, as well as 223 people missing and 2,548 injured. Co-Sponsored by the South Asia Language and Area Center and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies.
5. "One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: As part of "Displacement Week 2008", architect and women's rights activist Neera Adarkar discusses the history of central Bombay's textile area — one of the most important, least known, stories of modern India. Covering a dense network of textile mills, public housing estates, markets and cultural centers, this area covers approximately one thousand acres in the heart of India's commercial and financial capital. In One Hundred Years, One Hundred Voices, Adarkar presents one hundred testimonies from residents of the former mill districts: a window into the history, culture and political economy of a former colonial port city now recasting itself as a global metropolis. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
6. "Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Ayesha Siddiqa, Islamabad-based independent political and defence analyst and author. Pakistan has emerged as a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'. It is the third largest receiver of US aid in the world, but it also serves as a breeding ground for fundamentalist groups. How long can the relationship between the US and Pakistan continue? This book shows how Pakistan is an unusual ally for the US in that it is a military state, controlled by its army. The Pakistan military not only defines policy - it is entrenched in the corporate sector and controls the country's largest companies. So Pakistan's economic base, its companies and its main assets, are in the hands of a tiny minority of senior army officials. This merging of the military and corporate sectors has powerful consequences. Ayesha Siddiqa's book, "Military Inc." analyses the internal and external dynamics of this gradual power-building and its larger impact that it is having on Pakistan's relationship with the United States and the wider world. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Co-Sponsored by the South Asia Language and Area Center and the Committee on Southern Asian Studies.
7. "New Partnership Paradoxes in U.S.-China Relations" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: Keynote Address at the 2008 China Symposium by Sun Zhe, professor of the Institute for International Studies and Director of the Center for U.S.-China Relations at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Professor Sun identifies three new "partnership paradoxes" in U.S.-China relations: Trade, Taiwan and Democracy. (1) China and the U.S. today are traversing an economic glacier of mutual interdependence and they have to depend on each other much more than either would probably choose; (2) Taiwan has become the most critical issue that constitutes an interlocking web of misperceptions which may lead to a potentially explosive relationship between the U.S. and China; and (3) The Chinese model of development has attracted the world's attention and has led to questions such as whether democracy "made in China" is also possible. In dealing with these new partnership paradoxes, the U.S. and China should seek consensus and to define principles and work out proper policies. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Part of a day-long symposium presented by the US-China Peoples Friendship Association (USCPFA) Chicago chapter. Co-Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.
8. "Human Rights in Mexico: Inside the Labyrinth of Drugs, Elections and Billionaires" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Sergio Aguayo, professor of political science at the Colegio de Mexico. Aguayo has been one of Mexico's leading public intellectuals and human rights advocates for the past three decades. He has been a professor of political science at the Colegio de Mexico since 1977 and was a founder of the Mexican Academy for Human Rights, the electoral reform organization Alianza Civica, and other civil society initiatives. His weekly newspaper column appears in 17 papers across Mexico and the U.S. and he makes regular appearances as a commentator on Mexican television. A past Tinker Visiting Professor at the University, Aguayo most recently visited Chicago in 2006, when an NGO he founded to monitor transparency issues (Fundar) received a major award from the MacArthur Foundation. Co-Sponsored by The Katz Center for Mexican Studies.
9. "The Mind of the Market" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: Author and psychologist Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy-and why people are so irrational about money. How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism, evolved through natural selection as the fittest way to satisfy our needs?
10. "China's Brave New World and Other Tales for Global Times" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjing's bookstore, the "Librairie Avant-Garde", where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucault's philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwell's 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen China...or post-9/11 America? In these often playful, always enlightening "tales", Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom poses these and other questions as he journeys from 19th-century China into the future, and from Shanghai to Chicago, St. Louis, and Budapest. He argues that simplistic views of China and Americanization found in most soundbite-driven media reports serve us poorly as we try to understand China's place in the current world order...or our own.
11. "The Oil and Glory" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by journalist and author Steven LeVine. Pipeline politics became a modern day version of the 19th Century's Great Game, in which Britain and Russia had employed cunning and bluff to gain supremacy over the lands of the Caucasus and Central Asia. “The Oil and Glory” is the story of how, at the dawn of the 21st century, the game was played once more across the harsh environs of the Caspian Sea. Co-sponsor: Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
12. "The Talibanization of South Asia: Can it Be Stopped?" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Pervez Hoodbhoy, Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azama University. Dr. Hoodbhoy received his bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, master's in solid state physics, and Ph.D in nuclear physics, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a faculty member at the Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad since 1973. He is chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization that publishes books in Urdu on women's rights, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought. Dr. Hoodbhoy has written and spoken extensively on topics ranging from science in Islam to education issues in Pakistan and nuclear disarmament. He produced a 13-part documentary series in Urdu for Pakistan Television on critical issues in education, and two other major television series aimed at popularizing science. He is author of Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality, now in 5 languages. Co-sponsors: Committee on Southern Asian Studies, South Asia Language and Area Center.
13. "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by Dahr Jamail, independent journalist and author. As the occupation of Iraq unravels, the demand for independent reporting is growing. Since 2003, unembedded journalist Dahr Jamail has filed indispensable reports from Iraq that have made him this generation's chronicler of the unfolding disaster there. In these collected dispatches, Jamail presents never-before-published details of the siege of Fallujah and examines the origins of the Iraqi insurgency. Dahr Jamail makes frequent visits to Iraq and has published his accounts in newspapers and magazines worldwide. He has regularly appeared on Democracy Now!, as well as the BBC, Pacifica Radio, and numerous other networks. Co-sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
14. "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk by David Cole, Professor of Law at Georgetown University. In "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," Professor Cole and Jules Lobel, two of the country's preeminent constitutional scholars, argue that the great irony is that the Bush administration's sacrifices in the rule of law, adopted in the name of prevention, have in fact made us more susceptible to future terrorist attacks. They debunk the administration's claim that it is winning the war on terror and offer an alternative strategy in which the rule of law is an asset, not an obstacle, in the struggle to keep us both safe and free.
15. "Legal Defense and Human Rights in Russia" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A talk with Robert Amsterdam, founding partner, Amsterdam & Peroff, legal defense counsel for Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In practice since 1980, Mr. Amsterdam has extensive experience litigating and arbitrating corporate disputes in emerging markets, focusing on the areas of individual and corporate human rights. Mr. Amsterdam was retained by Mikhail Khodorkovsky in August, 2003 as part of the YUKOS-Group MENATEP defense team. Since then, he has worked with Russian human rights lawyers to prepare a White Paper on international human rights issues as they relate to the prosecution of Platon Lebedev, Alexei Pichugin and Mr. Khodorkovsky. (Moderated by Thomas Ginsburg, Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law School.) Co-sponsor: The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies.
16. "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: A panel featuring John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "The Israel Lobby" was originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006. It provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in America: the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy. Now in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
17. Chicago Humanities Festival: Wangari Maathai http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 75.13Mb) Description: Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan politician and environmental activist who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Peace, the first black African woman to win a Nobel Prize. Maathai was elected to Kenya's National Assembly with 98 percent of the vote in 2002 and in 2003 was appointed assistant minister of environment, natural resources, and wildlife. She is the author of "The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience". Co-sponsors: The Division of the Humanities and Rockefeller Chapel.
18. "The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 55.13Mb) Description: Lecture by journalist William Langewiesche. In his book The Atomic Bazaar, Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. As more unstable and undeveloped nations find ways of acquiring the ultimate arms, the stakes of state-sponsored nuclear activity have soared to frightening heights. Even more disturbing is the likelihood of such weapons being manufactured and deployed by guerrilla non-state terrorists. Langewiesche also recounts the recent history of Abdul Qadeer Khan and examines in dramatic and tangible detail the chances for nuclear terrorism.
19. "The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 36.93Mb) Description: Lecture by Martha Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum reveals in The Clash Within, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to India's democratic traditions and secular state. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
20. "Failing America’s Faithful: How Today’s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 42.97Mb) Description: A conversation between Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, and Susan Thistlethwaite, President of Chicago Theological Seminary. In her book Failing America's Faithful, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend issues a spiritual call to arms to those who feel like her that today's churches—Catholic and Protestant alike—are failing to promote the welfare of those who depend upon them. After recounting her personal story in one of the most prominent Catholic families in America, she shows how America's neediest are now forgotten while their churches fight political battles against abortion rights and homosexual marriages. She provides hope through powerful examples of individuals effecting change and maintains that our individual actions can return our churches to their traditional role as shepherds to their flock. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Cosponsored with the Chicago Theological Seminary.
21. "Buried in the Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 65.07Mb) Description: Based on nearly a decade of painstaking research in archives and census records, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elliot Jaspin's book Buried in the Bitter Waters provides irrefutable evidence that racial cleansing occurred again and again on American soil, and fundamentally reshaped the geography of race. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.
22. "The Current Security and Economic Situation on the Korean Peninsula" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 76.93Mb) Description: A discussion with Alexander Vershbow, United States Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and Lee Tae-sik, Korean Ambassador to the United States. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Cosponsored by the Korea Economic Institute, the Korean Consulate of Chicago and the Center for East Asian Studies.
23. "The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 54.32Mb) Description: James Mann is author in residence at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and the author of Rise of the Vulcans, About Face, and Beijing Jeep. He was previously the Los Angles Times Beijing bureau chief. In his new book, The China Fantasy, Mann explores two scenarios popular among the policy elite. The "Soothing Scenario" contends that the successful spread of capitalism will gradually bring about a development of democratic institutions, free elections, independent judiciary, and a progressive human rights policy. In the "Upheaval Scenario," the contradictions in Chinese society between rich and poor, between cities and the countryside, and between the openness of the economy and the unyielding Leninist system will eventually lead to a revolution, chaos, or collapse. Against this backdrop, Mann poses a third scenario and asks, What will happen if Chinese capitalism continues to evolve and expand but the government fails to liberalize? From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
24. "Ending Global Poverty" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 63.54Mb) Description: A lecture by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute and Professor of Sustainable Development and Health Policy and Management at Columbia University and the author of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series. Cosponsored by the University of Chicago's Human Rights Program, the School of Social Service Administration, Rockefeller Chapel, and Chicago Promise.
25. "Islam in America: A Conversation with Paul Barrett and Umar Abd-Allah" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 65.78Mb) Description: Paul Barrett and Dr. Umar Abd-Allah in a discussion of their recent works, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion and A Muslim in Victorian America. Dr. Abd-Allah's work is a biography of Alexander Russell Webb, one of the earliest American converts to Islam to achieve a modicum of fame. Mr. Barrett's book offers portraits of a number of contemporary American Muslims, demonstrating the complexity of the community and diversity of opinion within this community. Paul Barrett was a reporter and editor for 18 years at the Wall Street Journal, and currently directs the investigative reporting team at Business Week. Dr. Abd-Allah is Scholar-in-Residence at the Nawawi Foundation. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
26. "Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 79.47Mb) Description: A talk by Danny Postel, Senior Editor of openDemocracy, an online global magazine of politics & culture. The Iran depicted in the headlines is a rogue state ruled by ever-more-defiant Islamic fundamentalists. Yet inside the borders, an unheralded transformation of a wholly different political bent is occurring. A "liberal renaissance," as one Iranian thinker terms it, is emerging in Iran, and in his pamphlet Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran, Danny Postel charts the contours of the intellectual upheaval. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
27. "Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 67.87Mb) Description: A talk by Sallie Hughes, Asst. Prof. in the School of Communication at the Univ. of Miami, on her book, Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico. The book examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media institution into many conflicting styles of journalism with very different implications for deepening democracy in the country. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
28. "Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 39.68Mb) Description: A talk by Tariq Ali, editor, New Left Review. Since 1998, the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela has brought Hugo Chávez to world attention as the foremost challenger of the neoliberal consensus and American foreign policy. While Chávez's radical social-democratic reforms have brought him worldwide acclaim among the poor, he has attracted intense hostility from Venezuelan elites and Western governments. Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Chávez, Tariq Ali shows how Chávez's views have polarized Latin America and examines the hostility directed against his administration. Ali discusses the enormous influence of Fidel Castro on both Chávez and Evo Morales, the newly-elected President of Bolivia, and contrasts the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutionary processes. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
29. "Monsters to Destroy: Bush's War on Terror and Sin" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 72.71Mb) Description: A talk by Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder on his book, Monsters to Destroy. In an ambitious effort to clarify a complicated issue, Ira Chernus tackles the question of why U.S. foreign policy aimed at building national strength and security has the paradoxical effect of making the country less safe and secure. His answer: The ''war on terror'' is based not on realistic appraisals of the causes of conflict, but rather on ''stories'' that neoconservative policymakers believe about human nature and a world divided between absolute good and absolute evil. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
30. "Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 23.95Mb) Description: Atlantic Monthly editor James Fallows discusses his new book, based on his award-winning series of articles for the magazine. Fallows analyzes the decision-making behind the Iraq war, and argues that the administration didn't fail to plan — it just ignored the plans of its own experts. Fallows also places the war within the larger context of the war on terror, arguing that the Iraqi venture has greatly undercut our global efforts to curtail terror attacks and the effectiveness of terrorist organizations. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
31. "The Mighty and the Almighty" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 44.34Mb) Description: Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State, interviewed about her book "The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs" by Susan B. Thistlethwaite, president of Chicago Theological Seminary. Co-sponsored by CTS. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
32. "Is the Commander-in-Chief Subject to the Rule of Law?: On Torture, Spying, and Detention in the War on Terror" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 21.32Mb) Description: David Cole is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation and a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Moderated by Susan Gzesh, Director, University of Chicago Human Rights Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series and Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series. Cosponsored by the Human Rights Program.
33. "Paul Rusesabagina: An Ordinary Man" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 15.64Mb) Description: Paul Rusesabagina's book "An Ordinary Man" explores what the Academy Award-nominated film Hotel Rwanda could not: the inner life of the man who became one of the most prominent public faces of that terrible conflict. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
34. "Dying to Win: On the Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 24.86Mb) Description: Robert Pape is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. Presented in collaboration with the 2nd Annual Joint Threat Anticipation Center Workshop. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
35. John Comaroff's Introduction of Zackie Achmat http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 4.28Mb) Description: John Comaroff is Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series and Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series.
36. “Realizing Human Rights: Access to HIV/AIDS Medication and the Role of Civil Society in South Africa” http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 17.21Mb) Description: A talk by Zackie Achmat, a South African activist most widely known as founder and chairman of Treatment Action Campaign. Presented in collaboration with Students for Global Public Health and the Human Rights Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series and Human Rights Distinguished Lecturer Series.
37. Ahmed Kathrada on his "Memoirs" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 23.91Mb) Description: Ahmed Kathrada is a contemporary of Nelson Mandela's and was a co-accused in the Rivonia Trial which sentenced Mr. Mandela and the others to life imprisonment. "Memoirs" chronicles his life as a political activist. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
38. "Water Resources in the Middle East, part 2" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 15.67Mb) Description: A talk by Olcay Unver, former head of the Southeastern Anatolia Project and founder of the Euphrates-Tigris Initiative for Cooperation. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Environmental Studies Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
39. "Water Resources in the Middle East, part 1" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 11.78Mb) Description: A talk by Leila Harris, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Co-sponsored by the Center fro Middle Eastern Studies and the Environmental Studies Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
40. "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 20.08Mb) Description: A talk by David Harvey, Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in Anthropology. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
41. response to: "Feeling the Heat: Simmering National Security Threats" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 5.96Mb) Description: Response to Anthony Lake by Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
42. "Feeling the Heat: Simmering National Security Threats" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 14.28Mb) Description: A talk by Anthony Lake, former National Security Advisor (1993–97) and Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
43. "The Prospects for Transatlantic Relations at the Beginning of the President’s Second Term" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 19.20Mb) Description: A talk by Sir David Manning, British Ambassador to the United States. Cosponsored by the CIS Norman Wait Harris Fund, the Harris School Center for Policy Practice, the Nicholson Center for British Studies and the British Consulate General in Chicago. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
44. "Global Chicago, pt. 5" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 4.41Mb) Description: A talk by Richard C. Longworth, executive director of the CCFR's Global Chicago Center. In collaboration with The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
45. "Global Chicago, pt. 4" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 6.34Mb) Description: A talk by Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune urban correspondent. In collaboration with The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
46. "Global Chicago, pt. 3" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 6.61Mb) Description: A talk by William Testa, vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In collaboration with The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
47. "Global Chicago, pt. 2" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 5.42Mb) Description: A talk by Saskia Sassen, Professor, Department of Sociology, U. of Chicago. In collaboration with The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign RelationsFrom the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
48. "Global Chicago, pt. 1" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 2.55Mb) Description: A talk by Charles Madigan, editor of Global Chicago and editor of Chicago Tribune Perspective section, moderator. In collaboration with The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
49. "Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 23.51Mb) Description: A talk by Kimberly Zisk Marten, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
50. "Resurrecting Empire: America and the Western Adventure in the Middle East" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 19.31Mb) Description: A talk by Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Chair in Arab Studies, Columbia University; moderated by Alfredo Lanier, Chicago Tribune editorial board. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
51. "American Foreign Policy and Amnesia: The Case of Iraq" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 29.37Mb) Description: A talk by Samantha Power, Harvard University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide. Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
52. "Interactions Between the Press and Foreign Policy" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 19.67Mb) Description: A talk by Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, "The NewsHour" (PBS). From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
53. "Whatever Happened to Globalization?" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 25.42Mb) Description: A talk by Richard Longworth, Executive Director, Global Chicago Center, Chicago Council on Foreign Relations; moderated by Daniel Drezner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, U. of Chicago. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
54. "Reform in the Arab World: A Journalist's Perspective" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 26.27Mb) Description: Talk by Steve Franklin, Chicago Tribune staff writer and former Middle East correspondent; moderated by Noha Aboulmagd Forster, U. of C. NELC dept. and School of the Art Institute. Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
55. "The United States and the Arab World: Sources of Antagonism, Prospects for Accommodation" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 24.98Mb) Description: A talk by Salim Yaqub, Assistant Professor of History, U. of Chicago; moderated by Marda Dunsky, Assistant Professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
56. "Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth about North Korea, Iran, and Syria" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 21.15Mb) Description: A talk by Bruce Cumings, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of History, U. of Chicago; moderated by Stephen Kinzer, New York Times. Cosponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.
57. "The Making of Chechen Terrorists: The Clash of Forces and Discourses" http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r... download (audio/mpeg, 32.15Mb) Description: A talk by Georgi Derluguian, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University; introduced by Ronald Grigor Suny, Professor of Political Science and History, U. of Chicago. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.