Aug 30th, 2009 · An article in Foreign Affairs says that after 14 years of intense international efforts to stabilize and rebuild Bosnia, the country now stands on the brink of collapse. Host Liane Hansen speaks with article authors Patrice McMahon, associate professor of political science at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and Jon Western, Five College associate professor of international relations at Mount Holyoke College.
Jun 21st, 2007 · Legislators from the Russian parliament, the Duma, and the U.S. Congress meet Thursday in the first open meeting between foreign affairs committees of the two institutions. It will be the third in the series of meetings between the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on International Affairs of the Duma, but it's the first to be attended by the media and the public. The gathering comes as a dispute over U.S. plans to extend its missile defense system to Eastern Europe have brought U.S.-Russian relations to a new low.
Apr 30th, 2007 · In his recent article for Foreign Affairs magazine, intelligence expert Bruce Riedel contends that by going into Iraq instead of finishing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Washington unwittingly helped al-Qaida.
Jan 12th, 2007 · Robert Siegel talks with Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), who chairs the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Thursday, Lantos presided over two hearings: one on Iraq, and the other on Iran. The latter hearing was attended by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Aug 26th, 2006 · Evan Kohlmann's article "The Real Online Terrorist Threat" appears in Foreign Affairs. Kohlmann tells Scott Simon that the U.S.-led war on terrorism fundamentally misunderstands the ways terrorists use the Internet to communicate.
Feb 10th, 2006 · The former national intelligence officer for the Middle East says the Bush administration has used remarkably little intelligence analysis in making its policy decisions. Paul Pillar writes in Foreign Affairs about the relationship between the intelligence community and policymakers in the run-up to the Iraq war.
Oct 18th, 2005 · Former Nixon Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird argues in a new article in the quarterly Foreign Affairs that the United States should transfer power to a trained Iraqi military and continue to support Iraq even as American forces withdraw. Alex Chadwick speaks with Laird as part of an ongoing series of conversations about Iraq.
Jul 16th, 2005 · Why are second-generation Muslims in Great Britain being recruited by al Qaeda? Robert Leiken of the Nixon Center in Washington, D.C., wrote about the trend toward "radicalization" in the current issue of Foreign Affairs. He tells Jennifer Ludden what he found.