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Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters

Mark Leon Goldberg

Journalists, policymakers, diplomats and scholars discuss under-reported news, trends and topics from around the world. Named by The Guardian as “One of 27 Podcasts to Make You Smarter” Global Dispatches is podcast about foreign policy and world affairs.

Episodes

Joe Biden Picks Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN Ambassador

Nov 23 2020 • 3244 MIN

Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be nominated by President-elect Joe Biden to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. She is a veteran diplomat who most recently served as Assistan...

Inside Yemen's "Hunger Wards"

Nov 23 2020 • 1618 MIN

Yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and is in imminent danger of descending into the worst famine the world has ever seen. Earlier this year, a filmmaker documented heroic efforts by doc...

What's Next for US- Iran Diplomacy and the Iran Nuclear Deal

Nov 19 2020 • 1207 MIN

When President Trump came to office in 2017, he inherited from President Obama the Iran Nuclear Deal. Trump rejected the deal and embarked on a fruitless "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran.  ...

A Ceasefire, But No Peace for Nagorno-Karabakh

Nov 16 2020 • 1843 MIN

On November 9th the warring parties in Nagorno-Karabakh signed a ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia. The agreement comes after weeks of very heaving fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia whic...

Ethiopia is on the Brink of Civil War

Nov 12 2020 • 2106 MIN

On November 4th, the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched military operations against the Tigray People's Liberation Front, the TPLF, which is the group that controls the Tigray region in N...

Veteran European Diplomat Gerard Araud on Joe Biden's Election and the Future of Trans-Atlantic Relations

Nov 9 2020 • 1825 MIN

Gerard Araud is the former French Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations. We recorded this conversation on the Friday following the Tuesday of election day, when the result was all ...