We discuss the BDS Movement (Boycott, Disinvest, Sanction) targeting Israel and advocating for Palestinian rights, the recent summit between Trump & Kim Jong Un, the recent rise in tensions between nuclear powers India & Pakistan, political violence in Haiti, and a brief Venezuela update. We end with another episode of Passports & Politics: Trains, Trams, […]

Ambassador James P. Zumwalt of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA and Dr. Satu Limaye from the East-West Center in Washington join us to explore economic, security, and diplomatic issues in US-Japan relations! Thanks to the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana and Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA for making this possible!

We talk with Teagan Sage, an IU Southeast International Studies major who grew up in Germany. We talk about daily life in Germany, including the education system, as well as the experience of coming to college in the US after growing up overseas, and what it is like to be truly bi-cultural. (Photo by Pixabay user […]

France has been shaken by weeks of protests challenging the government of Pres. Macron and, most recently, showing ugly signs of right-wing extremism. Our guest, French professor Dr. Charles Pooser, helps us understand that background and context of protest in France and the Yellow Vests in particular. (Yellow vests photo by Wikimedia Commons user Thomas […]

Venezuela: With our guest, historian Dr. Quinn Dauer, we examine the dramatic political events in the country with the world’s largest known petroleum reserves! The dueling claims to the presidency, US interests and actions, the history of right-wing political control, and the rise of the left and Chavismo are all topics for discussion.

As part of our new occasional series “Passports and Politics,” Cliff shared tips for visiting Havana with your mind on political travel. (Photo via Pixabay user Falkenpost. Used under Pixabay license.)

We look at recent developments relating to peace efforts in Afghanistan, the US & then Russian withdrawals from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the situation with Chinese company Huawei and international relations implications thereof, as well as Nicaragua, Brexit quick updates. Then Cliff shared tips for visiting Havana with your mind on political […]

Our guest, physicist Dr. Kyle Forinash, explains what we know and how we know it about climate change in layperson’s terms and then we consider just a few of the ways that climate change will affect international politics, such as refugee flows, conflict over resources, and more.

With IU Southeast Chancellor and Northern Ireland native Ray Wallace, we discuss the latest developments in Brexit, the move of the United Kingdom out of the European Union and, especially, the challenges posed by and to Northern Ireland in that process. Dr. Wallace was recently in Northern Ireland and has first-hand insight as to the […]

Jean introduces the new occasional series. Passports and Politics focusing on travel as a political act and shares an experience from her studies in East Germany to illustrate the idea.