Podcasts
Episode 48: The United Nations in a Changing World
Guest: Stéphane Dujarric On October 19, 2021, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs hosted Stéphane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, to talk about the role of the…
Read MoreEpisode 47: The Global Impact Award 2021
Guest: Dr. Robert M. Gates The 2021 Global Impact Award honored Dr. Robert M. Gates, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, for his distinguished career in national security. Dr. Gates delivered…
Read MoreEpisode 46: Women and War: The Women Who Took on ISIS – and Won
Guest: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon During this Foreign Policy Forum, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discussed The Daughters of Kobani, which tells the story of an unlikely fight in northeastern Syria in 2014,…
Read MoreEpisode 45: Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Climate Change?
Guest: Molly Williamson Climate change is one area where politics, economics, and science come together to create an all-encompassing challenge that must be met by leaders worldwide. Unfortunately, it is…
Read MoreEpisode 44: The United States and Iran: What Will the Next Four Years Hold?
Guest: Kelsey Davenport and Paul Pillar The U.S.-Iran relationship is one the most pressing foreign policy challenges the Biden Administration will navigate in the coming years. CCWA was joined by…
Read MoreEpisode 43: Global Economic Outlook 2021
Guest: Nicolas Véron At the start of the new year, Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, spoke at CCWA’s inaugural Dr. Raj and Karen…
Read MoreEpisode 42: Crisis in the U.S.-China Relationship
Guest: Susan Thornton Susan Thornton, a retired senior U.S. diplomat with near 30 years of experience with the U.S. State Department and current Senior Fellow at Yale Law School, spoke…
Read MoreEpisode 41: Foreign Policy and the 2020 Election
Guest: Ambassador Nicholas Burns Ambassador Nicholas Burns, the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School, spoke in a…
Read MoreEpisode 40: Coronavirus in Conflict Zones
Guest: Jarrett Blanc Jarrett Blanc, a senior fellow in the Geoeconomics and Strategy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, spoke in a virtual webinar for CCWA in May…
Read MoreEpisode 39: American Diplomacy in a Disordered World
Guest: Ambassador William Burns Ambassador William Burns, President of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, spoke for the Cleveland Council on World Affairs in March of 2020 about the importance of…
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