Join
host Carol Castiel each week as she and two advocates from the
world of politics, public policy, or academia discuss and
debate a critical issue in the news, bringing depth,
perspective, and insight to the world around
us.
Listen to a Recent
Program |
| UN Security Council Discusses
Iran's Nuclear Program |
 On the eve of the UN
Security Council debate about Iran’s nuclear program,
Leonard Spector, deputy director of the Monterey
Institute's Center for Non-proliferation Studies, and
Paul Levanthal, founding President of the Nuclear
Control Institute, discuss the urgency of curbing Iran’s
nuclear ambitions with host Carol Castiel.
(Airdate: 12 March 2006)
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| Port Controversy: Security v.
International Investment? |
 P.J. Crowley, director for national
defense and homeland security at the Center for American
Progress, and Daniel Ikenson, trade policy analyst at
the Cato Institute, discuss the trade and security
issues as well as the politics behind the controversy
over a deal that would authorize Dubai Ports World to
take over management of six major US ports with host
Carol Castiel.
(Airdate: 5 March 2006)
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| Africa’s Growing Strategic
Importance |
 Africa is increasingly important to
both the United States and China according to a new
report issued by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Ambassador Princeton Lyman, former US envoy to South
Africa and Nigeria, and Stephen Morrison, Director of
the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, make the case for a new,
strategic US approach toward Africa with host Carol
Castiel.
(Airdate: 26 Feb 2006)
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| Cartoon Controversy: Freedom of Expression
in the post 9 -11 World |
 Marvin Kalb, senior fellow at the
Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at
Harvard University and Tom Rosentstiel, Director of the
Project for Excellence in Journalism, discuss freedom of
speech in the post 9-11 world as the controversy
continues over the publication of cartoons of the
Prophet Muhammed.
(Airdate: 19 Feb 2006)
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| Controversy over Cartoons Satirizing the
Prophet Muhammad |
 Helle Dale, Deputy Director for
International Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation,
and Akbar Ahmed, professor of Islamic Studies at the
American University in Washington, discuss the global
controversy and ensuing violence triggered by
caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed with host Carol
Castiel.
(Airdate: 12 Feb 2006)
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| Risks and Benefits of Washington's
Democracy Promotion Policy
|
 In his recent State of the Union
address, President Bush reiterated his strong belief in
supporting democracy overseas to combat the threat of
terrorism. But what if the democratic process brings
radical groups to power as in the recent electoral
victory of Hamas in the Palestinian territories? Marina
Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace and Leslie Campbell of the National Democratic
Institute discuss the risks and benefits of Washington's
democracy promotion policy with host Carol
Castiel.
(Airdate: 5 Feb 2006)
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| HAMAS LANDSLIDE: Promise or Peril for
Mideast Peace? |
 Ambassador Richard Murphy,
former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and
South Asian affairs, and Haim Malka, fellow in the
Middle Eastern Program at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies, discuss the implications of the
stunning victory by the radical Islamic group Hamas in
Palestinian parliamentary elections with host Carol
Castiel.
(Airdate: 29 Jan 2006)
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