Global Insights (Audio)

The 12th NASA Administrator, Charles F. Bolden Jr. shares how NASA's programs and missions function as an instrument of international cooperation, demonstrating the steady guidance of the United States as the world's leader. Series: "Frontiers of Knowledge" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 32921]

Journalist Ari Shapiro shares his healthy approach to an onslaught of bleak world news. Shapiro's passion for literature has inspired him to find and report great stories in Washington, Europe and elsewhere around the world in his remarkable rise from radio intern to co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. Shapiro is the featured speaker at the 2016 Dinner in the Library event at the Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 32726]

Experts on international relations, conflict and religion engage in an informed debate about the extent and nature of the threat ISIS poses and how the US should respond. Monica Duffy Toft is Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at Tufts University. Marc Gopin is the Director of the Center on Religion, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University. Moderated by Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at UCSB. Series: "Voices" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 32566]

Journalist Ari Shapiro shares his experiences in Eastern Ukraine as the Separatists arrived. Shapiro had a remarkable rise from radio intern to co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. Shapiro was the featured speaker at the 2016 Dinner in the Library event at the Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 32736]

Journalist Ari Shapiro shares his healthy approach to an onslaught of bleak world news. Shapiro's passion for literature has inspired him to find and report great stories in Washington, Europe and elsewhere around the world in his remarkable rise from radio intern to co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. Shapiro is the featured speaker at the 2016 Dinner in the Library event at the Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Series: "The Library Channel" [Show ID: 32726]

Journalist Ari Shapiro shares his experiences in Eastern Ukraine as the Separatists arrived. Shapiro had a remarkable rise from radio intern to co-host of NPR’s flagship news program, All Things Considered. Shapiro was the featured speaker at the 2016 Dinner in the Library event at the Geisel Library at UC San Diego. Series: "The Library Channel" [Show ID: 32736]

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harold Smith, Distinguished Scholar at the IGS at Berkeley. Reflecting on his odyssey from university professor to Washington where he served as defense consultant and assistant Secretary of Defense 1993-1998), Smith explains the what, how and why of the implementation of the Nunn Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. He concludes with reflections on lessons learned and advice to students preparing for a future in defense and foreign policy careers. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 32520]

2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman is the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize. A human rights activist, journalist and politician, she was dubbed the “Mother of the Revolution” for her key role in the Arab Spring, during which she was imprisoned numerous times. An advocate for education, social equality and responsible investment as means to counteract poverty and oppression, Karman offers hopeful solutions to uphold the democratic spirit across the globe. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 32452]

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, becoming the first Nobel laureate to be recognized for his concern for global environmental problems. He addressed an audience at UC San Diego focusing on love and kindness among humanity. He urged compassion and sharing each other's problems as one human family to overcome the distance and violence in the world. Series: "Dalai Lama" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 32364]

In his highly-acclaimed book, The Nazis Next Door, Eric Lichtblau tells the shocking and shameful story of how America became a safe haven for Hitler's men. Lichtblau explains here how it was possible for thousands of Nazis -- from concentration camp guards to high-level officers in the Third Reich -- to move to the U.S. after WWII, and quietly settle into new lives as Americans. Some of them gained entry as self-styled refugees, while others enjoyed the help and protection of the CIA, the FBI, and the military, who put them to work as spies, intelligence assets, and leading scientists and engineers. Lichtblau's book draws from once-secret government records and interviews, telling the full story of the Nazi scientists brought to America, and the German spies and con men who followed them and lived for decades as Americans. He is presented by the Holocaust Living History Workshop at UC San Diego. Series: "Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 31542]