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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Globalization, International Institutions, and the International Economy

John Arquilla; Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey: "International Relations in the Information Age," 3/17/03

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

Manuel Castells; Professor of Sociology and City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley: "Identity and Change in the Network Society," 5/9/01

Nayan Chanda; Director of Publications at the Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University: "How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization," 5/16/07

Amy Chua; Professor of Law, Yale University; Author of World on Fire: "The Myths of Globalization: Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Hatred," 1/22/04; and "The Moment of Empire," 11/16/07
(2004) (2007)

J. Bradford DeLong; Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley: "Economics, Politics and Public Discourse," 10/5/07

Barry Eichengreen; Economic Historian, UCB: "Historical Perspective on the Global Economic Crisis," 01/22/09

Stuart E. Eizenstat; Former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury: "Politics, Law, and the Search for 'Imperfect Justice'," 4/30/03

Tom Farer; Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver: "International Law and Human Rights," 4/19/00

Niall Ferguson; Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University: "The War of the World," 10/19/06, "The Ascent of Money," 10/22/08

Richard B. Freeman; Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University: "Global Capitalism, Labor Markets, and Inequality” 10/31/07

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

Peter Hayes; Executive Director, Nautilus Institute: "Political Activism, NGOs, and Globalization," 4/18/03

Brenda Hollis; Colonel, U.S. Air Force (ret.): "War Crimes Prosecution," 4/18/01

Bobby R. Inman; Admiral, U.S.N. (Ret.); President of Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former Director of the National Security Agency: "National Security and International Competitiveness," 3/25/86

Kenneth D. Kaunda; First President of Zambia (1964-1991): "Reflections on Empire, Nationalism, and Globalization," 11/3/06

Robert O. Keohane; James B. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University: "Theory and International Institutions," 3/9/04

Sir David King; Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of Great Britain: "Science and Public Policy," 9/15/05

Stephen D. Krasner; Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Stanford University: "Sovereignty*," 3/31/03

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

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

Princeton Lyman; Director of the Interdependence Initiative at the Aspen Institute: "U.S. Foreign Policy and Globalization," 2/28/02

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

Walter Russell Mead; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations: "U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Political Tradition," 2/25/03; video (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 Micklethwait; Editor-in-Chief, The Economist: "Globalization and the Conservative Movement in the United States," 2/6/07

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

Samantha Power; Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University: "Chasing the Flame," 2/26/08

Clyde Prestowitz; President of the Economic Strategy Institute: "The Changing Balance of International Economic Power," 8/9/05

Olivier Roy; Professor, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris: "Globalization and Islam," 1/25/07

Laurence Simon; Professor of International Development, Brandeis University: "Global Poverty, Development, and Social Change," 11/7/08

Laura D'Andrea Tyson; UCB Professor of Economics & Business and former Chair, Council of Economic Advisors: "An Economist Goes to Washington," 1/14/98

David Vogel; Solomon P. Lee Distinguished Professor in Business Ethics, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley: "Business, Government, and Ethics in an Era of Globalization," 7/11/07

Martin Wolf; Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times: "The Causes and Consequences of the Economic Collapse," 02/19/09

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