We step into the ‘Cyber-Arena’ with Clint Watts, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Initiative and the Center For Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. As a , military officer and intelligence official, Watts has spent years hunting down terrorists and identifying Russian trolls on the internet. In his new book “Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News,” Watts assembles a definitive guide of how democratic societies can identify and counter disinformation from hostile digital interlopers.

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Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger of the German Marshall Fund joined the “In The Arena” podcast to discuss their recent policy blueprint for Countering Authoritarian Interference in Democracies, the United States’ vulnerability to cyberthreats, and how American citizens must work together to combat foreign interference in our elections.

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Ambassador Deborah Birx, U.S Global AIDS Coordinator and the U.S Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, joined the “In The Arena” podcast to discuss the development of her unique career path, her current role of overseeing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the future of America’s global public health policy.

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Ambassador Deborah Birx, U.S Global AIDS Coordinator and the U.S Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy, joined the “In The Arena” podcast to discuss the development of her unique career path, her current role of overseeing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the future of America’s global public health policy.

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A tribute to our namesake, Senator John McCain, and how the McCain Institute will continue his legacy of advancing character-driven global leadership based on security, economic opportunity, freedom and human dignity – in the United States and around the world.

Dr. Dan Twining, President of the International Republican Institute, joined the “In The Arena” podcast to discuss how his organization helps develop democracy around the world and the contemporary challenges global democracy faces.

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Ely Ratner, Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security, sat down to discuss his time as National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, America’s relationship with China, and what the future holds for both countries.

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In the second half of this two-part episode, Josh Rogin, Global Opinion Columnist for the Washington Post, discusses the President’s policies towards China and North Korea, the state of the global human rights movement, and his relationship with Senator McCain.

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In a special two-part episode, Josh Rogin, Global Opinion Columnist for the Washington Post, spoke with the “In The Arena” podcast about covering foreign policy in the age of  Trump. In the first episode of this double-feature podcast, Rogin discusses how he became a journalist, the President’s summit in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin and the Syrian White Helmets.

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Mick McKeown, Executive Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Blue Campaign, joined the “In The Arena” podcast to discuss his work to heighten the public’s familiarity with human trafficking and its identifiers. He heads the “If you see something, say something” campaign to raise public awareness of the indicators of terrorism-related crimes and how to recognize them.

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