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- How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy: An Interview with Van Jackson
This episode is an audio version of our video interview “How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy: An Interview with Van Jackson” from May 18, 2025. Click here to watch the original video.
The statements made and opinions expressed in this publication are solely the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Security in Context network, its partner organizations, or its funders.
Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Van Jackson about his new book with Michael Brenes, "The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy."
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29 min - Understanding Trump's Tariffs
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Understanding Trump's Tariffs” from April 14, 2025. Click here to watch the original video.
The statements made and opinions expressed in this publication are solely the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Security in Context network, its partner organizations, or its funders.
In this video, Security in Context's Omar Dahi moderates a discussion between SiC co-founder Firat Demir and economist Francisco R. Rodriguez to discuss Trump's tariffs and their impact on the world.
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49 min - Dissecting Europe’s Political Landscape: German Elections and U.S.-Ukraine Tensions
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Dissecting Europe’s Political Landscape: German Elections and U.S.-Ukraine Tensions” from March 7, 2025. Click here to watch the original video.
Security in Context's Anita Fuentes interviews Anatol Lieven about Europe's political landscape, in particular Germany's elections and the newfound tensions between the US and Ukraine.
Anatol Lieven is the Director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Lieven is a former professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and in the War Studies Department of King’s College London.
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28 min - Israeli Aggression in Syria
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Israeli Aggression in Syria” from March 3, 2025. Click here to watch the original video.
Security in Context Project Director Omar Dahi interviews Wael Tarabieh about the history of the Israeli occupation in the Syrian Golan.Wael Tarabieh - Syrian Artist and activist, based in the Occupied Syrian Jawlan. Graduated from St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. A Co-founder of the “Fateh Al-Moudarres Center for Arts and Culture” - in Majdal Shams. He has been teaching fine arts since 1996. He has worked with fellow artists and cultural activists on developing the local artistic and cultural space in the occupied Syrian Jawlan, and sought to link it to the democratic cultural movement in Syria, Palestine, and the world. He joined Al-Marsad- The Arab Human Rights Center in the Occupied Jawlan, in 2018, as a project manager for the cultural program “New ways of seeing”, and is currently managing Al-Marsad’s program on economic, social, and cultural rights.
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41 min - Dr. Viviana García Pinzón on Trump's Foreign Policy in Latin America
NOTE: This episode is an audio version of our video interview “Dr. Viviana García Pinzón on Trump's Foreign Policy in Latin America” from February 26, 2025. Click here to watch the original video.
Security in Context's Roosbelinda Cárdenas speaks with Dr. Viviana García Pinzón about US President Donald Trump's foreign policy in Latin America, with a focus on Colombia.Dr. Viviana García Pinzón is Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg and an Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). She has a PhD in Political Science with a focus on peace and conflict studies from the Philipps University of Marburg.
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33 min - 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.For more please visit www.securityincontext.org or follow us on Twitter @SecurityContext33 min - 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.For more please visit www.securityincontext.org or follow us on Twitter @SecurityContext41 min - 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.For more please visit www.securityincontext.org or follow us on Twitter @SecurityContext43 min - 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.For more please visit www.securityincontext.org or follow us on Twitter @SecurityContext22 min - 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.For more please visit www.securityincontext.org or follow us on Twitter @SecurityContext36 min
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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…
on peace and conflict, the political economy of security and insecurity, militarism, and geopolitics, as they intersect with the processes of climate change, population movement, and the reorganization of global powers. In order to delve into these topics, we interview writers, researchers, activists and professionals from inside and outside the Security in Context network.