Benedictine student and Palestinian-American Mya Mohammed '25 joins Brian and Joel to discuss the Gaza War from a personal perspective.

Drs. Joel Ostrow and Brian Endless are joined by Professor Marco Alcocer from the University of California, Merced to discuss politics in Mexico following the recent presidential elections, along with the current plague of drug cartels in that country.

Professor Brian D. Taylor of Syracuse University joins Joel and Brian for a discussion of Russia's military failures, and how Russia so badly misjudged Ukraine's willingness and ability to resist and it's own military capacity.

Drs. Brian Endless and Joel Ostrow are joined by Father Touissaint Kafarhire Murhula, SJ, PhD, Director of the Arrupe Center for Research and Training in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. We discuss some of the history and the current situation in the Congo, including the "civil war" that has been raging since 1996.

Drs. Brian Endless and Joel Ostrow examine the conflict in Yemen with guest Fatima Abo Alasar, Non-Resident Scholar at the Middle East Institute and Senior Analyst at the Washington Center for Yemeni Studies. This covers history, the current conflict between the Iranian backed Houthis and the Saudi backed government, and how the conflict affects the rest of the region.

Drs. Brian Endless and Joel Ostrow examine the recent controversy around International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC) involvement in the Israel/Gaza crisis.

In this episode, Professor Eric Heginbotham, Research Fellow at M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies and an expert on Asian security issues, joins us for a discussion of tensions between China and Taiwan and in the South China Sea more generally.

Drs. Joel Ostrow and Brian Endless are joined by Dr. Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University). Dr. Ehsani is an expert on Iran who provides insight on what comes next after the recent helicopter crash that killed the Iranian President and Foreign Minister.

Profs. Brian Endless and Joel Ostrow discuss the current situation in the Gaza Strip and the history that brought us to this point in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

Drs. Joel Ostrow and Brian Endless bring more history and depth to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine, including what we might expect in the future.