Archives for January 2022

The likelihood that Russia will invade Ukraine seems to be growing by the day. If Russia indeed attacks Ukraine, how should the United States and Europe respond?  Joining me to take on that question and more are four excellent speakers:

Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Nina Jankowicz the Woodrow Wilson Center

Jim Goldgeier of Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation

Melinda Haring of The Atlantic Council

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David Miliband is the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, one of the larger global humanitarian organizations with relief operations around the world.

At the end of 2021 David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, delivered a lecture at the Council on Foreign Relations identifying and defining what he called a “Systems Failure” in global crisis response. This is the topic of much of our conversation today. 

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For the last week, massive protests have swept across the large Central Asian country of Kazakhstan.  The spark was a decision by the government to increase fuel prices in the country, which is a major fuel producer.  But as my guests today explain, though the fuel price hike was the proximate cause of the protests, they are rooted in deep and widespread disaffection with Kazakhstan’s ruling class. 

Three Kazakstan political and security experts contribute to this episode: 

Dr. Erica Marat, a professor at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. 

Dr. Diana T. Kudaibergenova, a professor at the University of Cambridge 

Dr. Jen Brick Murtazashvili a professor at the University of Pittsburgh

As 2021 comes to a close, I thought it may be worthwhile to gather some veteran United Nations watchers to reflect on the key events that shaped the work of the United Nations this year. I’m joined in this conversation by Margaret Besheer, the UN Correspondent for Voice of America, Anjali Diyal, Assistant Professor of International Politics in the Political Science Department at Fordham University, and Louis Charbonneau, UN Director for Human Rights Watch. We recorded our conversation live via Twitter Spaces.

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