Podcasts for the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

The Burkle Center fosters research and analysis in international relations and foreign policy, brings the brightest minds in these fields to UCLA and to the Los Angeles community, and encourages faculty and students to explore and shape debate on global issues.

A Conversation with Josh Paul, former Director of the U.S. State Departments Bureau of Political-Military Affairs

Hear insights on U.S.-Israel alliance and the landscape of U.S. security cooperation.

09-25
01:03:09

The 2023-24 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture

Steven Pinker, Award-winning Author and Experimental Psychologist, Harvard University

06-03
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Careers in a Globalizing World: An International Career Panel

Gain insight and learn to prepare for various professions in the international arena.

04-15
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Responding to Geopolitical Threats: The EU Expands its Role

Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop, Ghent University, Belgium.

04-12
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Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Abraham Newman, Professor in the Foreign Service and Government Departments, Georgetown University

03-13
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Conflict and Resolution: An Irish Perspective

Join us for an insightful conversation with Amb. Geraldine Byrne Nason.

03-13
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The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works—and When It Backfires

Rochelle Terman, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

02-21
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Repression in the Digital Age: Surveillance, Censorship, and the Dynamics of State Violence

Dr. Anita Gohdes, Professor of International and Cyber Security at the Hertie School, Berlin

02-01
51:15

The 2023-24 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development

Baroness Dambisa Moyo, economist,andnbsp;best-selling author, andandnbsp;member of the British Parliament

12-01
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Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens

Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation with special guest Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles

11-16
01:30:41

Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought

Tejas Parasher, Assistant Professor of Political Theory, UCLA

11-16
01:04:30

And Then What? Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy

Baroness Catherine Ashton, former European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs andamp; Security Policy

11-02
55:33

The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination

Stuart Reid, executive editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine

10-31
57:59

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage

Philippe Sands, Professor of Law at the University of London

10-17
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The 2023-24 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace

Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland

10-06
01:18:37

The 2022-23 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace

Luis Moreno Ocampo, First Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

05-22
48:02

Beyond Populism and Liberal Institutions: Pueblos’ Defense of Grounded Communities as Planetary Democracy

A discussion with Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Professor of Political Science, Haverford College

05-12
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The Suffragist Peace: How Women Shape the Politics of War

A book talk with Robert Trager, Professor of Political Science, UCLA

05-05
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Monitors and Meddlers: How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections

Featuring Sarah Bush, Assoc. Prof., Yale and Lauren Prather, Assoc. Prof., UCSD

04-17
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Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance

A book talk with Didac Queralt, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University

03-15
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