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Extremism and Fragile States
Episode 22
If the attacks of September 11, 2001 were a second Pearl Harbor, where are we in the war that began on that day? Are we winning, losing or stalemated…
7 years, 7 months ago
A Conversation with Ambassador Nikki Haley
Episode 20
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was one of the visionaries who helped create the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies soon after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Wars of the Jews
Episode 21
Israel is a tiny country: its land area about a fourth the size of the United Arab Emirates, its population less than that of Tehran—capital of the I…
7 years, 7 months ago
The Iranian-Israeli Conflict Within the Syrian Civil War
Episode 19
For seven long years, Syria has been engulfed in civil war. The death toll now exceeds a half million. More than five million refugees have fled abro…
7 years, 8 months ago
Religion and Secularism in Central Asia
Episode 18
Kazakhstan is one of the ten largest countries in the world, yet most Americans couldn’t find it on a map. Today, the former Soviet Republic is an an…
7 years, 8 months ago
Syria‘s World War
Episode 17
Syria has been at war for seven long years. More than a half million people have been killed. More than 11 million – close to half Syria’s pre-war po…
7 years, 9 months ago
Turkey’s Election, Erdogan’s Counterrevolution
Episode 16
Not so long ago, Turkey appeared to be the model: a Muslim-majority nation that was becoming free, democratic and prosperous; a NATO ally; a friend o…
7 years, 9 months ago
Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran’s March Across the Middle East
Episode 15
Lebanon and Iraq both recently held elections, which is good news – or is it? Hezbollah, Iran's terrorist foreign legion, is now more firmly in contr…
7 years, 10 months ago
Nothing but Net: Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Episode 14
A peril that may not be on your radar screen: Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare (CEEW). Computers and the Internet have made our lives easier but they’v…
7 years, 10 months ago
Of Strikes and Strategy: U.S. Policy in Syria
Episode 13
War will always be hell – but the laws of war were meant to make wars at least a little less hellish. In Syria, however, the brutal regime of Bashar …
7 years, 10 months ago