Harry Kreisler is executive producer and host of the series, which is produced at the Institute of International Studies at the University of California - Berkeley. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 450 interviews.
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These interviews were made possible by support from the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.

John Philip Abizaid; U.S. Army, (ret.), Commander of the U.S. Central Command (2003-2007): "The Military in the Post-9/11 World," 3/12/08

Edward Alden; Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Terrorism, Immigration and Security Since 911," 11/18/08

Tariq Ali; Editor, New Left Review: "Pakistan," 9/26/08

Anders Aslund; Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute, Washington, D.C.: "Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed in Russia," 2/12/08

Andrew J. Bacevich; Professor of International Relations and Director, Center for International Relations, Boston University: "The Military and U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/9/05

Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies: "National Security in an Age of Sacred Terror," 2/6/06

Stephen D. Biddle; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Military Victory in the Information Age," 1/27/06

Phillip Bobbitt; Herbert Wechsler Professor of Jurisprudence, Columbia University: "Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century," 5/2/08

Barbara Bodine; U.S. Ambassador to Yemen (1997-2001): "Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/2/08

Max Boot; Olin Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York: "Small Wars and U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/12/03; and, "Revolutions in Military Affairs and the War on Terror," 11/6/06
(2003) (2006)

Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier; Center for New American Security and Council on Foreign Relations: "American Foreign Policy from 11/9 to 9/11," 9/25/08

Amy Chua; John M. Duff, Jr., Professor of Law, Yale Law School: "The Moment of Empire," 11/16/07

Jonathan Clarke; Foreign Policy Scholar, The Cato Institute: "The Neo-Conservatives," 4/4/05

Juan Cole; Professor of History, University of Michigan: "The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy" 10/20/05

Steve Coll; Associate Editor, The Washington Post: "The Rise of al Qaeda," 3/15/05

Pamela Constable; Foreign Correspondent, The Washington Post: "Afghanistan and Pakistan," 04/03/08

Steven A. Cook; Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "The Implications of Military Rule for Democratization in the Middle East," 1/31/08

Mark Danner; Journalist and Staff Writer a the New Yorker: "Ideas and Leadership in U.S. Foreign Policy," 5/3/99; and "Truth, Power, and the Iraq Debacle," 7/27/07; "The Red Cross Report, Torture Memos and Political Accountability," 05/8/09
(2007)

Ambassador James Dobbins; Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center, Rand Corporation: "Nation Building," 2/28/05

James Fallows; National Correspondent, Atlantic Monthly: "U.S. Foreign Policy and the Bush Administration," 3/28/05, "China-US Relations," 9/25/08

Tom Farer; Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver: "Confronting Global Terrorism: The Elements of a Liberal Grand Strategy," 4/16/07

Niall Ferguson; Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University: "The War of the World," 10/19/06

David Frum; resident fellow, American Interprise Institute: "Foreign Policy Ideas in George W. Bush Administration," 1/20/04

Leon Fuerth; Research Professor of International Affairs, Elliott School, George Washington University: "Thinking about the Future," 2/7/05

Robert Gallucci; Dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University: "U.S. Foreign Policy and Multilateral Negotiations," 2/11/02

Leslie Gelb; President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations: "Power, Ideas and Foreign Policy in the 21st Century," 04/3/09

Fawaz A. Gerges; Christian A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies at Sarah Lawrence College: "Inside Muslim Militancy," 8/29/2007

Michael Gordon; Military Correspondent, The New York Times: "The Invasion and Occupation of Iraq," 3/21/06

Victor Davis Hanson; Senior Felllow, Hoover Institution: "Iraq and the Lessons of the Peloponnesian War," 3/14/06

Stephen Holmes; Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law: "America's Reckless Response To Terror," 2/15/08

John Hulsman: Senior Fellow, German Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin): Ethical Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy," 10/25/06 (with Anatol Lieven)

Robert Jervis; Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Columbia University: "American Foreign Policy in a New Era," 11/17/05

Josef Joffe; Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit: "The Imperial Temptation of America," 10/22/07

Chalmers Johnson; President, Japan Policy Research Institute: "The Last Days of the American Republic," 03/7/07

A. Elizabeth Jones; Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia: "U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change after 9/11," 10/22/02

Amb. Zalmay Khalilzad; U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2003-2005, Iraq 2005-2007, and the United Nations(2007-2008): "Responding to Strategic Challenges Post 9-11," 05/12/09

Parag Khanna; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation: "Global Competition and the Rise of the Second World," 03/21/08

Jeremy Kinsman; Diplomat-in-Residence, Princeton University: "Diplomacy," 11/21/08

Stephen D. Krasner; Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Stanford University: "Sovereignty*," 3/31/03; "System Change or More of the Same," 10/29/2007;
(2003) (2007)

Mark Leonard; Executive Director, European Council on Foreign Relations: "What Does China Think?" 5/12/08

James Leach; Former Congressman: "Congress, Leadership and the Economic Collapse," 03/17/09

Anatol Lieven; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Peace: "American Nationalism," 5/6/04; and, as Senior Fellow, New America Foundation: "Ethical Realism and U.S. Foreign Policy" (with John Hulsman), 10/25/06
(2004) (2006)

Ian Lustick; Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania: "Coming to Terms with Israel," 3/4/02; and "Trapped in the War on Terror," 5/1/06
(2002) (2006)

Edward Luttwak; Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University: "Strategy," 3/10/87; "The Logic of Strategy and U.S. Foreign Policy,"11/05/07
(1987) (2007)

Princeton Lyman; Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "U.S. Foreign Policy and Globalization," 2/28/02; and "A Strategic U.S. Approach to Africa," 2/16/06
(2002) (2006)

Kishore Mahbubani; Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy: "The Rise of Asia and the Decline of the West," 2/22/08

James Mann; Nitze School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University: "The Bush War Cabinet" 2/14/05

Jack Matlock; former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "Collapse of Soviet Union and End of the Cold War," 2/13/97

Jane Mayer; Staff Writer, The New Yorker: "How the War on Terror Turned into A War on American Values," 8/8/08

Walter Russell Mead; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Political Tradition," 2/25/03; (2003)
"American Grand Strategy in a World at Risk," 5/10/04; [2004 video unavailable]
"Britain and America and the Making of the Modern World," 10/23/07; (2007)

John Mearsheimer; R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago: "Through the Realist Lens," 4/8/02; and "Domestic Politics and International Relations," 9/19/07 (with Steve Walt)
(2002) (2007)

Michael Nacht; Dean and Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley: "Changing Paradigms in National Security Policy," 1/9/03

Michael B. Oren; Historian and Writer; Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem: "War in History and in Fiction," 11/8/05

Robert A. Pape; Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago: "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," 2/16/06

Trita Parsi; Adjunct Professor of International Relations, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University: "Iran, Israel, and the United States," 11/30/07

Stewart Patrick; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "Building a Multilateral International Order," 04/3/09

Samantha Power; Professor, Kennedy School, Harvard University: "Chasing the Flame," 2/26/08

Louise Richardson; Executive Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University: "What Terrorists Want," 9/19/07

Karim Sadjadpour; Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: "Iran: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy," 10/8/07

Robert A. Scalapino; Robson Research Professor of Government Emeritus, UC Berkeley: "Reflections on a Life as Scholar, Teacher, and Policy Advisor," 4/21/08

Michael Scheuer; Former Chief of the CIA bin Laden unit: "America and Islam After Iraq,", 3/12/08

Peter Dale Scott; Professor Emeritus of English, UC Berkeley: "Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America," 8/8/07

Tom Segev; Columnist, Haaretz: "Israel and the 1967 War," 3/22/07

Shirk, Susan; Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UCSD; and Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California: "China and the United States," 11/8/01; (2001) "Domestic Politics and International Behavior: The Case of China and the U.S.," 6/28/07; (2007) "Addressing National Security Challenges in the Post-9/11 World" 6/5/08 (with Herbert York);

Jennifer Sims; Former Coordinator for Intelligence Resources and Planning, Department of State: "Intelligence and National Security in a Democracy," 2/11/02

Harold Palmer Smith, Jr., Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley: "Thinking about the 'Unthinkables' in the Post-9/11 World," 1/26/06

Mark Steyn; Journalist: "America, Europe, and the Islamic World, " 3/14/07

Peter Tarnoff; former Undersecretary of State; former President, Council on Foreign Relations: "Foreign Policy in a Democracy," 10/13/99

Stephen M. Walt; Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School, Harvard University: "Balancing American Power in the Post-9/11 World," 11/15/05; and, "Domestic Policy and International Relations," 9/19/07
(2007)

Lawrence Wilkerson; Col., U.S. Army (ret.), Chief of Staff to the Secretary of State (2002-2005): ”Vice President Cheney and America's Response to 911,” 04/03/08

Howard Wolpe; Congressional Representative and Chair of the House Subcommitteeon Africa: "The Role of Congress in Foreign Policy," 11/12/82

Frederick Wyle; Esq.: "National Security and the Rule of Law," 12/05/07

John Yoo; Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley: "The Shaping of a Legal Response to 9/11," 1/24/08

Herbert York; Founding Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California: "Addressing National Security Challenges in the Post-9/11 World" 6/5/08 (with Susan Shirk)

Anthony Zinni; Former Commander in Chief of the Central Command: "Challenges for U.S. National Security Policy," 4/23/07

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