Human Rights in Foreign Policy
Jimmy Carter is in hospice and Lizzy Shackelford is back to focus on human rights in foreign policy, the first rules for which began under Carter's presidency. Although the rules survive, our governm...
30 Maalis 202343min
In Case of Democracy Break Glass
Argentina, 1970s. The president catches a cold and dies. Who succeeds him? His VP, also his fifth-grade educated wife, selected expressly because she posed no threat to the president's power. So t...
23 Maalis 202341min
We Live in a Male Culture
For Women's History Month, Ambassador Pru Bushnell returns with leadership tips for women. A lot of power is theater, and we can use those trappings of power to lead with authority. One, keep the al...
16 Maalis 202341min
How'd They Do It?
Pete and John Feeley follow on last week's interview with Felix Maradiaga, freed Nicaraguan political prisoner. Pete and John learn the diplomatic and human story behind the story with Patrick Ventre...
9 Maalis 202320min
You Are Free Now
The greatest threat to the Ortega regime in Nicaragua? Ideas. And that's how Félix Maradiaga, Nicaraguan political activist, ended up in solitary confinement, in darkness, for months on end, with li...
2 Maalis 202338min
Human Trafficking – Our Country, Every Country
Who can become a sex or labor trafficking victim? Anyone. We all need food and shelter; we all need to provide for our children, just to name a few. Traffickers are expert at exploiting our needs. Dom...
24 Helmi 202339min
The Triad of US Forces in Ukraine
More on the labrynth of intelligence, strategy and diplomacy in Ukraine. Centralized control works in concert with decentralized execution, diplomacy is working and countries are working together. Pet...
16 Helmi 202333min
The Three-Legged Stool in Ukraine
Ambassador Mike Polt and General Ben Freakley of ASU's Leadership, Diplomacy and National Security Lab join Pete for a discussion of Ukraine from a combined diplomatic, military and intelligence persp...
9 Helmi 202330min
