PODCAST: The View From Europe Mark Leon Goldberg April 19, 2018We are now one and a half years into the Trump presidency and diplomats around the world are learning how to adjust.So what does the domestic instability in America look like to Europeans right now? How...
PODCAST: Suzanne DiMaggio’s “Unofficial” Diplomacy With North Korea and Iran Have Lead to Major Breakthroughs Mark Leon Goldberg April 16, 2018Suzanne DiMaggio specializes in what is called Track Two Diplomacy with countries that have limited or no diplomatic relations with the United Stats. In practice, this has meant that she's spent countless ...
PODCAST: What Happened to Iraq’s Oil Wealth? Mark Leon Goldberg April 12, 2018What happened to Iraq's oil wealth? That is the central question of the book: Pipe Dreams: The Plundering of Iraq's Oil Wealth by my guest today Erin Banco.Erin Banco is an investigative reporter at...
UPDATE: A Chemical Weapon Has Been Used in Syria. What Does the Security Council Do Now? Mark Leon Goldberg April 9, 2018UPDATE: The Security Council is meeting again today, potentially on separate resolutions offered by the United States and Russia. The key difference between the two resolutions is that the United States wants a...
PODCAST: The Steve Coll Interview Mark Leon Goldberg April 9, 2018 Journalist Steve Coll is a staff writer at the New Yorker, dean of the Colombia School of Journalism and former president of the New America Foundation think tank.Tn 2005 he wont he Pulitzer f...
Map of the Day: Where Investment in Renewables is Booming Mark Leon Goldberg April 6, 2018Today's map comes from a new UN-backed report Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018. As the name suggests the report, which was a joint effort of the United Nations Environment Program and Bloomberg...
PODCAST: Bosnia is in Vladimir Putin’s Crosshairs. Chaos and Conflict to Return to the Balkans? Mark Leon Goldberg April 5, 2018A few weeks ago I was having lunch with a former high ranking US diplomat whose work focused on Russia and Europe. I asked him where he thought Vladimir Putin might target next to sow instability and withou...
The White House Turns to the UN to Fight ISIS’ Re-Emergence in Syria. (But Denies it the Funding to Do So) Mark Leon Goldberg April 4, 2018The White House sought to address some confusion over President Trump's suggestion yesterday that American troops should quit Syria. The statement released this morning was still somewhat cryptic, but it did un...
Podcast: Bangladeshi Immigrant Rais Bhuiyan Survived a Hate Crime and Fought to Save from Execution the Man Who Shot Him Mark Leon Goldberg April 2, 2018On September 21, 2001, Rais Bhuiyan was working behind the counter at a gas station outside Dallas, Texas when a man named Mark Stroman walked in brandishing a sawed-off shotgun.Stroman was a self-proc...
