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...
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...
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...
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...
The UN Agency That Provides Humanitarian Relief for Palestinian Refugees is Facing a Crisis Mark Leon Goldberg March 30, 2018The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA, is facing a crisis. This is the humanitarian agency that provides relief for Palestinian refugees in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan and Syri...
What John Bolton’s Ascension to the Most Important US Foreign Policy Position Means for the United Nations Mark Leon Goldberg March 28, 2018Of course, you likely know John Bolton's quip about lobbing off the top ten floors of UN headquarters in New York. He's clearly no fan of the organization.But in her first year on the job, US Ambassador Ni...
The UN Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia is Coming to a Successful End Mark Leon Goldberg March 21, 2018By the end of this month the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Liberia will no longer exist. The mission, known as UNMIL, is closing shop after nearly 15 years in operation. This is a a major mileston...
