Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters Podcast
1) 2025 Was a Year of Global Protests
2025 was a year of global protests. More than 70 countries across every region of the world experienced anti-government demonstrations. Some of these movements — such as those in Nepal and Madagascar ...Show More
2) Inside the Search for Syria's Missing Persons
Over the course of Syria's fourteen-year civil war, around one million people went missing, presumably killed. Among them was the father of my guest today, Maryam Kamalmaz. Maryam's father was an Amer...Show More
3) The Security Council Goes To Syria | To Save Us From Hell
On December 4, the entire United Nations Security Council made an unprecedented trip to Syria. It is hard to overstate what a significant turning point this represents — both for the Security Council ...Show More
4) What Happens When America Withdraws? | Live From The Halifax International Security Forum With Justin Ling
The Halifax International Security Forum always includes a sizable and bi-partisan group of United States Senators who were suddenly put on the spot: Did they think Ukraine should accept this ultimatu...Show More
5) The Last of Syria's Political Prisoners are Still Languishing in Lebanese Jails
When Damascus was liberated in December of last year and Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow, thousands of the regime's political prisoners were released from jail. Around the region, Syrians who had fled ...Show More
6) Live From Kabul — The World's First Capital Facing Total Water Collapse
Kabul is running out of water. If present trends continue, the capital of Afghanistan could run completely dry by 2030. There are several reasons for this. The first is climate change: there is less s...Show More
7) A Brilliant New Biography Tells the Story of the Cold War Era UN Secretary General U-Thant
U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations. He assumed the role following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash in the Congo in 1961, and soon became...Show More
8) How the UN General Assembly Can Get Its Peace and Security Groove Back
My interview guest today, Axel Marschik, is a veteran Austrian diplomat who has thought extensively about how the General Assembly can play a more robust role in peace and security when the Security C...Show More
9) How Tanzania's Fraudulent Elections Sparked an Unusual Protest Movement
On October 29, Tanzania held national presidential elections — and lo and behold, incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan "won" with a staggering 98% of the vote. Everyone knew what was going on. The ...Show More
10) When Treaties Work: The Biological Weapons Convention
2025 marks 50 years of the Biological Weapons Convention. Back in 1975, the treaty entered into force, and by banning biological weapons worldwide, it became the first global treaty to prohibit a part...Show More