The Global Cable

On this episode of The Global Cable, Perry World House Inaugural Director William Burke-White is joined by Perry World House Distinguished Scholar, Former Assistant Secretary-General and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan & Columbia University Law Professor Michael Doyle to discuss the Model International Mobility Convention, which aims to create a model set of rules and standards for mobility, considered as a whole. 

Michael Doyle specializes in international relations theory, international security, and international organizations. Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from 2001 to 2003. His responsibilities included strategic planning (Millennium Development Goals), outreach to the international corporate sector (the Global Compact), and relations with Washington. Doyle has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1992 and is the former chair of the Academic Council of the United Nations System. He has also been a senior fellow and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Institute since 1996. In 2001, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; in 2009, to the American Philosophical Society; and in 2012, to the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He served as chair of the board of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) from 2006–2013. In 2015, Doyle helped develop the Model International Mobility Convention which represents a shared framework among over 40 academics. It serves the ambitious goal of creating a holistic, rights-respecting governance regime for all aspects of international migration, filling in the gaps in the existing international legal regime and expanding protections where needed. Doyle holds a BA from Harvard College (1970), and an MA (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) from Harvard University.

00:10 - Introduction with Inaugural Director Prof. Willian Burke-White and Global Shifts Program Manager Jocelyn Perry

03:20 - The Model International Mobility Convention 

05:15 - Framing Mobility as a Broader Concept

08:02 - Human Movement - Human Right or Economic Benefit?

13:05 - The Role of the Changing Political Landscape 

16:50 - Previous Conventions & Reasons for Optimism

19:20 - Doyle's Role as Assistant Secretary-General and special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan

23:40 - The Biggest Challenges faced by the World

27:20 - Career Advice 

28:30 - Outro

Music & Produced by Tre Hester

In honor of International Woman's Day, on this episode of The Global Cable, Perry World House Deputy Director LaShawn Jefferson is joined by Claire Sliney, a University of Pennsylvania Sophomore and an Academy Award-winning producer of Period. End of Sentence, a documentary short that explores a group of women in a rural Indian village, which fights the stigma surrounding menstruation and begin manufacturing sanitary pads. 

In a rural village outside Delhi, India, women lead a quiet revolution. They fight against the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation. “Period. End of Sentence.” -- a documentary short directed by Rayka Zehtabchi -- tells their story. For generations, these women didn’t have access to pads, which lead to health problems and girls missing school or dropping out entirely. But when a sanitary pad machine is installed in the village, the women learn to manufacture and market their own pads, empowering the women of their community. They name their brand "FLY," because they want women "to soar."

Their flight is, in part, enabled by the work of high school girls half a world away, in California, who raised the initial money for the machine and began a non-profit called "The Pad Project." 

Music & Producer by Tre Hester.

On this episode of The Global Cable, Perry World House Inaugural Director William Burke-White and Global Shifts Program Manager Jocelyn Perry are joined by Perry World House Visiting Fellow, former President of Refugees International and advisor to UNHCR, Michel Gabaudan, to discuss the scope and scale of the refugee crisis in Venezuela.

Michel Gabaudan is the former President of Refugees International, an independent advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. Refugees International advocates on behalf of forcibly displaced populations in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America. Prior to his appointment to lead Refugees International, his career with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) spanned twenty-seven years. During this time, he acted as the Charge de Mission in Guatemala; the Regional Representative for Mexico, Cuba and Central America; the Head of Donor Relations and Resource Mobilization Service; Regional Representative for the Pacific; Regional Representative for China and Mongolia; and the Regional Representative for the United States of America and the Caribbean. He has most recently served as Advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ecuador, supporting the government’s efforts in responding to the mass outflow of Venezuelans in the region. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Bordeaux in 1975 and received his Master of Public Health from the University of London in 1999.

00:10 - Introduction with Inaugural Director Prof. Willian Burke-White and Global Shifts Program Manager Jocelyn Perry

02:10 - The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis

08:50 - Changing Responses to Refugee Crises 

11:00 - How the Refugee Challenge changed over the past 30 years

15:20 - Refugees International 

18:55 - The relationship between Refugees & Migration

26:10 - Interesting Global Fact: Sinking Islands & Long-Run Climate Change

28:30 - Outro

 

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On this episode of The Global Cable, Perry World House Inaugural Director William Burke-White and Global Shifts Program Manager Jocelyn Perry are joined by former U.S. Ambassador William Lacy Swing, former Director General of the International Organization for Migration, to discuss migration, displacement, and the age of humanitarian crises, including how the global community might ensure “safe, orderly, and regular” migration in a disorderly world. 

Ambassador William Lacy Swing led the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from 2008-2018. Previously, he was the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Democratic Republic of Congo and for Western Sahara, as well as Chief of Mission for the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. He was also a six-time ambassador with the U.S. Department of State.

00:10 - Introduction with Inaugural Director Prof. Willian Burke-White and Global Shifts Program Manager Jocelyn Perry

04:40 - The International Organization of Migration

07:28 - The Global Compact on Migration

10:08 - The Role of Policy & The Press

12:30 - Ambassador Swing's Career in Africa

15:30 - The UN'S Preventative Action against Forced Migration

17:23 - The Importance of American Diplomacy

21:50 - Restoring Trust in our Alliances

23:00 - Population Growth & Distribution

25:15 - Interesting Global Fact: International Migrants

26:30 - Outro

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On this episode of The Global Cable, we are joined by the Hon. Paolo Gentiloni, the Former Prime Minister of Italy, to discuss, with Perry World House Inaugural Director Prof. William Burke-White, the rise of populism & nationalism in Italy, and Europe, and the future of the European Union. 

The hon. Paolo Gentiloni is the Former Prime Minister of Italy. He is a professional journalist and has a degree in Political Sciences. Since 2001, he is a Member of Parliament and was Chairman of the Broadcasting Services Watchdog Committee. He was one of the founding members of the Italian Democratic Party. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as Minister for Communications in Prime Minister Romano Prodi’s government. In 2014, he became Italian Foreign Minister in the government led by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. In December 2016, he was appointed Prime Minister of Italy, serving until June 1, 2018.  In 2018, he was re-elected for the fifth term to the Chamber of Deputies and he is currently a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. His most recent book is “La sfida impopulista,” Rizzoli, 2018.

 

0:10 - Introduction with Inaugural Director Prof. Willian Burke-White and Director of Research & Communications Dr. John Gans

 

03:15 - The State of Italian Politics

05:35 - Shifting Migration Flows in Europe

12:00 - Populism & Nationalism Across Europe

17:45 - The United States on the Global Stage

25:50 - Interesting Global Facts: Internal African Migration

27:40 - Career Advice: Public Commitment 

30:00 - Outro

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On this episode of The Global Cable, we are joined by Ambassador Thomas Pickering and Suzanne DiMaggio to discuss, with Perry World House Inaugural Director Prof. William Burke-White, the future of U.S. Diplomacy, Global Security, and the current state of American Foreign Policy.

Ambassador Pickering has had a career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as undersecretary of state for political affairs, ambassador to the United Nations, ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service. He has held numerous other positions at the State Department, including executive secretary and special assistant to Secretaries Rogers and Kissinger and assistant secretary for the Bureau of oceans, environmental and scientific affairs. 

Suzanne DiMaggio is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and Asia. She is one of the foremost experts and practitioners of diplomatic dialogues with countries that have limited or no official relations with the United States, especially Iran and North Korea. DiMaggio is an associate senior fellow in the Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation Program at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). She holds a BA from New York University and an MA from City College of New York (CUNY).

0:10 - Introduction with Associate Director Prof. Mike Horowitz and Director of Research & Communications Dr. John Gans

05:30 - The State of the World Today

13:20 - The U.S. & North Korea

16:00 - The Importance of the Iran Deal

20:20 - The State of American Foreign Policy

23:25 - The Biggest Threats to the U.S. & the World

28:00 - Outro

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On this episode of The Global Cable, we are joined by Perry World House Global Order Distinguished Visiting Fellow and Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Bob Work, to discuss the future of the U.S. military, artificial intelligence and the importance of American defense leadership. 

Robert O. Work served as Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2014-2017. He is currently Senior Counselor for Defense and Distinguished Senior Fellow for Defense and National Security at the Center for a New American Security, where he was previously the Chief Executive Officer. From 2009 to 2013,  Secretary Work served as the Undersecretary of the Navy. In 2008, he was on President-elect Barack Obama’s Department of Defense Transition Team as leader of the Department of the Navy issues team. Prior to the Obama administration, after spending 27 years on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps and retiring as a colonel, Work spent time first as a Senior Fellow and later as Vice President for Strategic Studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the U.S. Naval Institute, and the Marine Corps Association. Secretary Work received his B.S. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in Systems Technology (Space Systems Operations) from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Masters in International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

00:43 - Introduction with Associate Director Prof. Mike Horowitz and Inaugural Director Prof. William Burke-White

06:25 - Deputy Secretary Work's Post-Government Career

07:50 - The Future of the U.S. Military & Necessary Adaptations

11:40 - The Importance of American Defense Leadership and Artifical Intelligence

16:14 - The Relationship between DoD & U.S. Companies: "Project Maven" 

26:20 - Global Challenges between China & U.S.

31:25 - Interesting Global Facts & Career Advice

34:22 - Outro

 

On this episode of The Global Cable, Perry World House Inaugural Director, and University of Pennsylvania Law Professor William Burke-White is joined by Dr. Yoram Hazony, President of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, and Director of the John Templeton Foundation‘s project in Jewish Philosophical Theology, to discuss the global rise of nationalism and populism across the world and  a new Perry World House report explaining this New Age of Nationalism.

Read the report HERE!

Yoram Hazony is President of the Herzl Institute. He is the founder and past President of the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, now Shalem College. His books include The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul, and God and Politics in Esther. Hazony is director of the John Templeton Foundation’s project in Jewish Philosophical Theology, and a member of the Israel Council for Higher Education committee on Liberal Studies in Israel’s universities. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Rutgers University.

00:28 - Introduction with Associate Director Prof. Mike Horowitz

10:22 - "The Virtue of Nationalism" by Yoram Hazony

13:08 - Nationalism as a glue to support the Global Order

17:40 - Brexit as a Reassertion of Nationalism 

22:25 - Nationalism's role at the domestic level

25:15 - The Politicization of Nationalism

29:10 - Nationalism Looking Forward

33:50 - Outro

Producer & Music by Tre Hester

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On this episode of The Global Cable, Inaugural Director and Penn Law Professor Bill Burke-White discusses the results of the Perry World House report on the status of the global order with Inaugural Lightening Scholar and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Cosette Creamer, and Visiting Fellow and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Peter Harrell. 

Read the full Perry World House report on the Status of the Global Order HERE!

00:11 - Introduction with Associate Director Prof. Mike Horowitz

08:10 - Findings of the Perry World House Report

11:30 - The Changing Economic Order of the World

14:15 - The Health of the International Trading System

16:10 - The Lack of Domestic Political Leadership

19:30 - The Impact of Renewed Great Power Competition

23:25 - Takeaways from the G20 Meeting

26:00 - Favorite Moments from the G20 Summit 

27:45 - Outro

 

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On this episode of The Global Cable Deputy Director Professor Michael Horowitz is joined by former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy Dr. Nadia Schadlow, to discuss the National Security Strategy under President Trump, working at the National Security Council and the biggest threats to the United States and the World. 

Nadia Schadlow is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Perry World House. She was most recently U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy. Prior to joining the National Security Council, Dr. Schadlow was a Senior Program Officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation, where she helped identify strategic issues which warrant further attention from the U.S. policy committee. She served on the Defense Policy Board from September 2006 to June 2009 and is a full member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have appeared in Parameters, The American Interest, the Wall Street Journal, Philanthropy, and several edited volumes. Dr. Schadlow holds a B.A. degree in government and Soviet studies from Cornell University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the John Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

00:12 - Intro

01:05 - Working On National Security

02:25 - The National Security Strategy

06:35 - U.S. - China Competition

09:10 - Foreign Aid & Development Policy

11:50 - Challenge Moments at the National Security Council

12:45 - The Most Important Global Challenges

16:40 - North Korea

20:10 - The Gap Between Academia & The Policy World 

22:05 - Interesting Global Facts

24:25 - Career Advice

26:20 - Outro

 

Music & Producer by Tre Hester