Security in Context

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Security in Context is a podcast project from the research network of the same name, aimed at promoting new thinking on security from a global perspective. It features discussions about key questions ... more

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November 24, 2024 UN 1701 & Peacekeeping in Lebanon: An Interview with Karim Makdisi
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “UN 1701 & Peacekeeping in Lebanon: An Interview with Karim Makdisi” from November 1, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Karim Makdisi about UN Security Council Resolution 1701 as well as peacekeeping in Lebanon amid attacks from and conflict with Israel.
Karim Makdisi is an Associate Professor of International Politics and Founding Director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He served as Associate Director in AUB’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, where he also directed the “UN and the Arab World” research and policy program. He currently directs the environmental policy program within AUB’s interdisciplinary graduate program in Environmental Sciences. He was a founding member and served on the first Board of Trustees of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences. Prior to joining AUB, he worked for three years at the Economic and Social commission for Western Asia, focusing on the global and regional UN sustainable development agenda and the inter-connected issues of crisis, intervention and reconstruction. He is the co-editor of Land of the Blue Helmets: The United Nations in the Arab World (University of California Press, 2017); and Interventions in Conflict: International Peacemaking in the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He has published in journals such as Global Governance, Third World Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, and International Studies Perspective. His current book project is: Disarming Syria: The International Politics of Eliminating Syria’s Chemical Weapons. He obtained his BA from Georgetown University and Ph.D. from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University.
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November 24, 2024 Iran's Foreign Policy Since the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation: Interview with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Iran's Foreign Policy Since the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation: Interview with Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi” from October 25, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
Security in Context's Omar Dahi interviews Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi about Iranian foreign policy since the Al-Aqsa Operation by Hamas.
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle East at the University of York. He is a historian of West Asia (Middle East), with a particular focus on the modern intellectual and political history of Iran and the wider Shi'i Muslim world. In disciplinary terms, he works at the intersection of intellectual and political history, the history of political thought, and postcolonial theory. Sadeghi-Boroujerdi has also extensively researched and published on the history of Iranian intellectuals, political militants and clandestine organisations during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the intellectual lineages of “Third Worldism” in modern Iran.
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41min
November 24, 2024 Is Israel Implementing Gaza Policy in Lebanon? An Interview with Hicham Safieddine
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Is Israel Implementing Gaza Policy in Lebanon? An Interview with Hicham Safieddine” from October 24, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
Security in Context's Omar Dahi speaks with Professor Hicham Safieddine about Israeli policy in Lebanon and its intersection surrounding their policies in Gaza as well.
Hicham Safieddine is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of the Modern Middle East. He researches financial, economic and intellectual history (19th and 20th centuries) with a particular emphasis on the MENA region. He is currently examining the emergence and transformation of global and national monetary regimes and financial systems under capitalist expansion, debt, war, colonial conquest, national liberation and revolution. In addition to his academic research and teaching, he is the co-founder of e-zines Al-Akhbar English and The Legal Agenda’s English Edition.
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43min
November 24, 2024 AI and Global Security: Edward Ongweso Jr. Joins SiC
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “AI and Global Security: Edward Ongweso Jr. Joins SiC” from October 23, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews our newest team member, Edward Ongweso Jr., about his work and research involving AI and global security issues.
Edward Ongweso Jr. is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor, and a Senior Researcher in Technology, Finance and AI at Security in Context. He’s the finance editor at Logic(s) (a Black, Asian, and queer critical tech magazine) and the co-host of the This Machine Kills (a podcast on the political economy of technological development). His work has appeared in Motherboard, The Guardian, The Baffler, The Nation, Dissent, WIRED, Slate, and elsewhere.
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22min
November 24, 2024 Understanding Sudan's Counter-revolutionary War: An Interview with Khalid Mustafa Medani
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Understanding Sudan's Counter-revolutionary War: An Interview with Khalid Mustafa Medani” from August 25, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani on Sudan's ongoing war, including its historical context and global implications.
Dr. Khalid Mustafa Medani is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies at McGill University. He also serves as the university's Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and Chair of the African Studies Program. Dr. Medani received a B.A. with Honors in Development Studies from Brown University, an M.A. in Development Studies from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on globalization, and the political economy of Islamist and Ethnic Politics in Africa and the Middle East with a special focus on Sudan, Egypt, and Somalia.
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36min
November 24, 2024 Seeking Justice for Israel's Genocide in Palestine: An Interview with Inès Abdel Razek
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Seeking Justice for Israel's Genocide in Palestine: An Interview with Inès Abdel Razek” from July 12, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Inès Abdel Razek, Co-Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) and its digital platform Rabet, about Gaza, Palestinian solidarity, and the quest for justice amid genocide from Israel.
Inès Abdel Razek is the Executive Director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) and its digital platform Rabet, an independent Palestinian organization focusing on international mobilization and digital campaigning for Justice, Freedom and Equality. From 2019 to 2022, Inès was the Advocacy Director of the PIPD, helping to develop the political networks and international advocacy pillar of the organization. Prior to joining the PIPD, Inès held policy advisor positions in the Union for the Mediterranean in Barcelona, the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi and the Palestinian Prime Minister’s Office in Ramallah, where she advised executive leadership on international aid for development policies. Inès is also a board member of the social enterprise BuildPalestine, Advisory board member of Palestine DeepDive, and policy member at Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. She holds a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Sciences-Po, Paris.
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23min
November 24, 2024 Branko Milanovic on Global Inequality: Past Lessons and Future Prospects
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Branko Milanovic on Global Inequality: Past Lessons and Future Prospects” from June 21, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Branko Milanovic on global inequality and how the subject's past can inform the future.
Branko Milanovic is an economist best known for working on income distribution and inequality. He is a research professor at the City University of New York's Graduate Center. Milanovic obtained his Ph.D. in economics (1987) from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in the World Bank’s Research Department for almost 20 years, leaving to write his book on global income inequality, Worlds Apart (2005). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington (2003-2005) and has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997- 2007). He was a visiting scholar at All Souls College in Oxford, and Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (2010-11).
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21min
November 24, 2024 Analyzing Mexico's Election: Claudia Sheinbaum's Landslide Victory
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Analyzing Mexico's Election: Claudia Sheinbaum's Landslide Victory” from June 6, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.
In this interview conducted by Security in Context's Margaret Cerullo, Mexico-based independent investigative journalist, John Gibler, author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt, To Die in Mexico: Dispatches From Inside the Drug War, and I Couldn’t Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa, provides in-depth analysis of the political landscape in Mexico in light of the most recent elections on June 2, 2024. Gibler analyzes the context in which Claudia Sheinbaum emerged victorious with a whopping 30+ point margin. In the interview, Gibler analyzes Sheinbaum’s party, Morena, and the legacies of her predecessor, López Obrador by looking at the war on drugs, immigration policy, state violence and the lingering impunity surrounding human rights, as well as the significance of Morena's triumph for Mexico and the region.
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38min
November 22, 2024 Nayib Bukele's Policies in El Salvador - An Interview with Amy Fallas
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Nayib Bukele's Policies in El Salvador - An Interview with Amy Fallas” from May 3, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.

Security in Context's Janaina Maldonado interviews Amy Fallas on the policies of President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele.
Amy Fallas is a Salvadoran-Costa Rican writer, editor, and historian. She is a former editor of the Yale Journal for International Affairs and a current assistant editor at the Arab Studies Journal. Her published work has appeared in The Washington Post, Jadaliyya, the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, Mada Masr, HAZINE, the Revealer, Sojourners, Contingent Magazine, and more. She received her MA in History from Yale University and is currently a PhD Candidate in History at UC Santa Barbara. Her research examines religious difference, communal institutions, sectarianism, and historical memory in modern Egypt as well as transnationally between El Salvador and Palestine during the 20th Century. Her creative nonfiction explores these questions through personal and investigative essays on race, religion, and politics in and between Egypt, El Salvador, and the United States.
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35min
November 22, 2024 Returning Public Funds To The Public: An Interview with Stephen Semler
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Returning Public Funds To The Public: An Interview with Stephen Semler” from April 29, 2024. ⁠Click here to watch the original video⁠.

Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Stephen Semler about his paper, "Returning Public Funds To The Public: A Plan To Convert Excess US Military Spending Into $600 Tax Rebates," in which he lays out a plan aimed at refunding taxpayers for the dramatic increase in military spending that we’ve seen over recent years in the United States.
Semler's paper can be read here: https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/returning-public-funds-to-the-public-a-plan-to-convert-excess-us-military-spending-into-600-tax-rebates
Stephen Semler is co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute and author of the newsletter Speaking Security.
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12min

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The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.