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Sunday, August 24, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Anna Ohanyan, Political Science and International Relations, Stonehill College; Narek Sukiasyan, Lecturer, American University of Armenia;Steve Swerdlow, esq, Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, Dept. of Political & International, USC
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| Will the so called peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan legitimize ethnic cleansing? Will it bring peace to the two nations? Or is it a recipe for future conflict?
Military aggression and violations of of the notion of sovereignty have marked the conflicts in the South Caucuses region over the last three decades. Will the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue this trend or will it avert claims to sovereignty?
This agreement between Armenia & Azerbaijan brings the US directly into the South Caucuses. Will American answer the call if there is further military violence?
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Sunday, August 17, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Omar Dajani, Carol Olsen Professor of International Law at the University of the Pacific; Mira Sucharov, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.
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| After nearly two years of a war on Gaza, some countries in the west have indicated that they intend to recognize Palestine as its own state. What would such recognition mean for the conflict and how can the war end?
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, August 10, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Jeremi Suri is Professor in the Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. and Haley Cohen Gilliland is a journalist and the director of the Yale Journalism Initiative.
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| First, will Donald Trump's and the republican party's efforts to redraw electoral maps give them a permanent majority?
Then, during the so called "dirty war," Argentina's military dictatorship kidnapped and disappeared its own citizens. But a dedicated group of activists, mothers and grandmothers of the disappeared, dedicated their lives to finding those who were stolen from their families. Who were the Abuelas of the Playa de Mayo? And what happened in their quest to reunite the disappeared with their families? We speak with the author of A FLOWER TRAVELED IN MY BLOOD: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children.
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, August 3, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Victor Pickard, Media Policy and Political Economy, Co-Director, Media, Inequality & Change Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin, School of Public Services Global Studies Program, Endowed Chair Franklin Church Institute
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| Congress has now clawed back the funding it had allocated for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. What does this mean for the future of publicly funded broadcasting in the USA? How will it affect news, public affairs and other vital information delivery?
We will explore the role of public broadcasting in a democracy. What role does money play at ensuring an independent media? What is the status of public funding and even government owned media throughout the democratic world?
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Sunday, July 27, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Ori Swed is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at Texas Tech University, Sorcha MacLeod is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Christopher Kinsey is Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and Anna Leander is Professor and Chair of the International Relations and Political Science Department at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
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| Private Military Corporations have become a growing element of the warfighting landscape. States have historically had a monopoly on the use of military force. But private corporations challenge this monopoly. How much do they increase the lethality and likelihood of war? How much can private corporations be regulated? And what are the challenges to regulation? We explore the political, military, legal, and socioeconomic implications of private military corporations.
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Sunday, July 20, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Newsha Ajami, Chief Development Officer for Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab; Benjamin J. Pauli, Social Science, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan; Ken Conca ,environment, development, & health, American University.
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| Although Access to safe drinking water is a human right, millions of people in the United States do no have access to safe water. Lead in the pipes is the most well-known cause but there are many others. What can be done to fix the nations water delivery systems? What have we learned from the Flint case?
Why did Ellicott City flood not once, but twice in 22 months (July 2016, May 2018)? How can once in a thousand years" rainfalls happen so close to one another? How do cities respond to extreme weather? We speak with Ken Conca author of After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City.
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| You can hear this and other interviews at www.scholarscircle.org
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Sunday, July 13, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker and Maria Armoudian
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| Rachel Cockerell is a writer and historian. Craig Smith is Professor of Oceanography at the University of Hawai’i. and Verena Tunnicliffe is a marine biologist at the University of Victoria in Canada
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| The search for a safe haven for Jewish people in the early 20th Century led some Zionists to land on Galveston, Texas as a potential homeland for Jewish refugees. What was the Galveston Movement and what happened to it? We interviews the author of a new MELTING POINT: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land. Then, the search for minerals is leading some corporations to begin mining the ocean floor but scientists warn that this could devastate fragile ecosystems that will have repercussions that we still dont understand. What is going on in the deep sea? What precautions should be taken to prevent devastating fragile ecosystems?
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Sunday, July 6, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Caroline Mala Corbin is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law.
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| The US Supreme Court has decided numerous cases and announced their opinions in the past week. On today's show we explore two cases. Parents can remove their children from any class they deem in opposition to their religious beliefs. But first, the Court declared an end to national injunctions in a case involving birthright citizenship.
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Sunday, June 29, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Mark Haas, Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh; Jacob Hamblin, Professor of History, Oregon State University.
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| Does the aging world population mean fewer wars in the future? What exactly is a geriatric peace? Our guest, Mark Haas, is the author of THE GERIATRIC PEACE: POPULATION AGING AND THE DECLINE OF WAR.
Then, we explore a new book on the peaceful uses of nuclear power, The Wretched Atom by Jacob Hamblin.
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Sunday, June 22, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| Ervand Abrahamian, Emeritus, History, Baruch College, City University of New York;Christian Henderson, International Law, School of Law, University of Sussex;Hamoud Salhi, Political Science, California State University, Dominguez Hills.
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| We look at the history of conflict and outcome in the past to understand the attacks between Israel and Iran to control Nuclear capabilities of Iran. What is the humanitarian and political impact of this war? On both Iran and on Israel. What is the impact on the region? Is this war legal, based on the laws of war? Principle of JUS AD BELLUM. And how would American intervention on behalf of Israel escalate the war, and complicate the war.
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Sunday, June 15, 2025 12:01 pm
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| Doug Becker
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| David S. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Planning, Policy, and Design at UC Irvine. and Gautham Rao is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the American University Washington, D.C.
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| President Trump has ordered federalization of the California National Guard and deployed them to Los Angeles. He also has deployed active Marines in the city. Does this violate the law? What is the law of posse comitatus? What is its history? And will mass protests help preserve democracy? The law of Posse Comitatus needs reform to prevent abuse? In today's political environment, is this even possible?
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