PODCAST: Journalist Alexis Okeowo Writes Profiles of Resistance in Africa Mark Leon Goldberg October 16, 2017Alexis Okeowo is a staff writer for the New Yorker whose debut book was published earlier this month. The book, A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa has been gettin...
Will Trump Destroy the Iran Nuclear Deal? Mark Leon Goldberg October 12, 2017The diplomatic fallout from President Trump's decision to decertify the Iran Nuclear Dead will be far and wide. As my podcast guest Spencer Ackerman puts it, this action "cannot be cauterized" from any othe...
Can UN Peacekeepers Prevent the Central African Republic from Descending Deeper into Conflict? Mark Leon Goldberg October 9, 2017The Central African Republic is facing some serious challenges right now.Four years ago, the country was on the brink of genocide after the longtime strongman Francois Bozize was ousted in an armed rebe...
What the Kurdish Independence Referendum Means for the Middle East Mark Leon Goldberg October 5, 2017People in Kurdish region of Iraq have voted overwhelmingly for independence in a popular referendum that took place in late September. No country in the region wanted this referendum to happen -- and neithe...
PODCAST: Keith Harper was the first American Indian to Become a US Ambassador Mark Leon Goldberg October 2, 2017When Keith Harper was confirmed as President Obama's representative to the UN Human Rights Council he became the first American-Indian to achieve the rank of Ambassador. The longtime attorney for native Ame...
Trump’s New Travel Ban Has One Historic Precedent: The Chinese Exclusion Act Mark Leon Goldberg September 28, 2017The Trump administration this week announced sweeping new restrictions on travelers from eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and YemenDays later, the administrati...
PODCAST: Author Meghan O’Sullivan Explains How America’s Energy Abundance is Re-Shaping International Relations Mark Leon Goldberg September 25, 2017Meghan O'Sullivan is the author of the new book Windfall: How the new energy abundance upends global politics and strengthens American power. We kick off this episode with a discussion of the ways in whic...
The Number of Refugee Children Out of School is Increasing at an Alarming Rate Mark Leon Goldberg September 21, 2017Amid all the pageantry, hoopla and media circus that is UN week in New York there is always some interesting and substantive work being done on important global issues. Sometimes these issues are not on top...
PODCAST: What to Expect from Donald Trump’s Debut at the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg September 17, 2017 World leaders gather at the United Nations this week for the annual summit at the United Nations General Assembly. This is always one of the big highlights of the international diplomatic calendar and it will...
