Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
In these lively and unedited interviews, distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. For more information, see the Conversations home page.
 Joseph
Wilson, IV ; Former U.S. Ambassador:
"A Diplomat's Odyssey," 5/27/04 |
 Walter
Russell Mead; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations:
"American Grand Strategy in a World
at Risk," 5/10/04 |
 Anatol Lieven; Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for Peace: "American Nationalism," 5/6/04 |
 Tom Engelhardt; Editor and Writer: "Taking Back the Word," 4/23/04 |
 Pierre Schori; Permanent Representative of Sweden to the UN: "Sweden and the United Nations," 4/20/04 |
 Anders Mellbourn; Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affiars: "Sweden in the Post-9/11 World," 4/19/04 |
 Natan Sharansky; Minister in the Israeli Government: "Science, Faith, and Survival," 4/16/04 |
 Josef Joffe; Editor, Die Zeit: "The U.S. and Europe after the Iraq War," 4/12/04 |
 Tom Segev; Columnist for Haaretz: "Israeli National Identity," 4/8/04 |
 Victor
Davis Hanson; Senior Felllow, Hoover Institution: "War," 4/2/04 |
 Seyla
Benhabib; Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy,
Yale University: "Philosophic
Iterations, Cosmopolitanism, and the 'Right to Rights,'" 3/18/04 |
 Ernest
Wamba dia Wamba; Senator, Democratic Republic of Congo: "Building
Democratic Institutions," 3/17/04 |
 Michael Hardt; Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University:
"Empire," 3/12/04 |
 Robert
H. Scales, Jr; Major General, U.S. Army, ret.: "Military
Strategy and the Future of Land Warfare," 3/9/04 |
 Robert O. Keohane; James B. Duke Professor of Political Science, Duke University:
"Theory and International Institutions," 3/9/04 |
 David
Harvey; Distinguished Professor of Anthroplogy, City University of New
York: "A Geographer's Perspective
on the New American Imperialism," 3/2/04 |
 Ronald
Steel; Professor of International Relations, USC: "The
Wilsonian Agenda in U.S. Foreign Policy," 3/1/04 |
 Michael
Mann; Professor of Sociology, UCLA: "Incoherent Empire," 2/27/04 |
 Sir Brian Urquhart; Former Under Secretary General of the United Nations: "The United Nations After 9/11," 2/23/04 |
 Jane
Wales ; CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California: "Foreign
Policy and Citizen Participation," 2/17/04 |
 Steven
Chu; Nobel Laureate, Physics; and Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied
Physics, Stanford University: "A Scientist's
Random Walk," 2/13/04 |
 Daniel Pipes; Director, Middle East Forum: "Militant Islam," 2/10/04 |
 Sherle R. Schwenninger; New America Foundation: "Grand Strategy and American Triumphalism," 2/9/04 |
 Chalmers Johnson; President, Japan Policy Institute: "Militarism and the American Empire," 1/29/04 |
 Amy Chua; Professor of Law, Yale; author, World on Fire: "The Myths of Globalization: Markets, Democracy, and Ethnic Hatred," 1/22/04 |
 David Frum; Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute: "Foreign Policy Ideas in the George W. Bush Administration" 1/20/04 |
 Paul Ekman; Professor of Psychology, UCSF Medical School: "Face to Face: The Science of Reading Faces," 1/14/04 |
 John Shattuck; Chief Executive Officer, Kennedy Library Foundation: "Inching Forward: Human Rights Policy in the Clinton Administration," 1/13/04 |
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