Podcasts about global directions

Rev. Bill Crews speaks to Keith Suter from Global Directions think tank about the rising tensions between Taiwan and China and how US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit  added fuel to the fire.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rev. Bill Crews speaks to global affairs expert Keith Suter about the escalating tension on the Ukrainian border.  Keith Suter from Global Directions think tank says the whole world is watching to see if Russia will make a move into the territory and that both sides are  ramping up their force.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rev. Bill Crews and Dr. Keith Suter from Global Directions discuss Scott Morrison's pledge to pull troops out of Afghanistan to finally put an end to a 20 year war and what that will mean for Australia.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rev. Bill Crews speaks to Keith Suter from Global Directions about his fears for the world with the souring relationship between Australia and China.  The relationship could be moving to a new Cold War.   See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Rev. Bill Crews speaks to Keith Suter from Global Directions about calls for WHO reform after the organization's mismanagement of the COVID 19 pandemic. 

Rev. Bill Crews speaks to CEO Keith Suter from Global Directions think tank about the US and Taliban deal to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.   

Rev. Bill Crews discusses the Hong Kong protests with International Affairs expert Dr. Keith Suter from Global Directions.

A talk given by Professor Simon Caney at a climate change panel discussion organised by Global Directions and the Oxford Centre for International Studies The discussion was organised in celebration of the publication of 'Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection' by Emeritus Fellow Professor Henry Shue. Simon Caney is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations. In addition to 'Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory' he has written highly influential articles on issues of human rights and justice raised by climate change, including 'Two Kinds of Climate Justice' [2014]. He was recently commissioned by the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice to conduct a study on the topic of his presentation. Find out more about Global Directions at http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/research/global-directions

A talk by Professor John Braithwaite, Distinguished Professor and Founder of RegNet (the Regulatory Institutions Network) at the Australian National University Given to the Global Directions research group at Merton College.

Talk given to the Global Directions research group by Dr Iginio Gagliardone of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford.

A talk given by Professor Janne Haaland Matlary of the University of Oslo and visiting fellow at the Changing Character of War Programme, Oxford, to the Global Directions research group at Merton College. Janne Matlary is professor of international politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, and at the Norwegian National Defence University College. Currently, she also serves as expert member of the MFA's (Foreign Office) Security Policy Commission, sits on the board of trustees of the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights, and writes and lectures on international management and human rights/CSR for corporate actors. Formerly, Professor Matlary was State Secretary (deputy foreign minister) for Foreign Affairs of Norway, representing the Christian Democratic Party in the Bondevik government, from 1997-2000. She was a foreign policy advisor to the government and Furst von und zu Liechtenstein as a member of their Expertenrat fur Aussenpolitik, 2002-2009, and member of the "Global Agenda Council" at the Davos World Economic Forum. She is a member of IESE's (Business school, Barcelona) international advisory board, member of the board of trustees of the "Social Trends Institute", N.Y., member of the board of The Swedish Defence College's research group on strategy and of the military advisory board of the defence company SIMRAD Optronics. She led the Norwegian Research Council's programme on petroleum research PETROPOL in the period 2000-2006. She was a member of the Norwegian government's expert commission on ethical guidelines for the national Petroleum Fund and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' commission on profiling Norway ("Omdømmeutvalget"), 2003-2006 and the National Defence Commission, 1996-97. She has also taught human rights to Iraqi police chiefs under the Norwegian Police Program as well as to Iraqi military officers for NATO.

Dr Jonathan Hill, Senior Lecturer, Defence Studies Department, King's College, gives a talk on Boko Haram, the latest developments in Nigeria, and their implications for US security. This talk was given at a seminar organised by Global Directions, a research group of the fellows and graduate students at Merton College working on pressing contemporary international challenges.