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Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University. Today’s discussion points include some of the latest developments in the India-Pakistan conflict; an International Booker Prize for Indian author Banu Mushtaq; and India’s extreme left parties in crisis. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is a podcast of the CapeTalk breakfast show. This programme is your authentic Cape Town wake-up call. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is informative, enlightening and accessible. The team’s ability to spot & share relevant and unusual stories make the programme inclusive and thought-provoking. Don’t miss the popular World View feature at 7:45am daily. Listen out for #LesterInYourLounge which is an outside broadcast – from the home of a listener in a different part of Cape Town - on the first Wednesday of every month. This show introduces you to interesting Capetonians as well as their favourite communities, habits, local personalities and neighbourhood news. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit. Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays between 06:00 and 09:00 (SA Time) to Good Morning CapeTalk with Lester Kiewit broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/xGkqLbT or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/f9Eeb7i Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University. They discuss a UK/India trade deal, the sharing of waters between India and Pakistan, and fears of a Chinese cheap goods dump. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is a podcast of the CapeTalk breakfast show. This programme is your authentic Cape Town wake-up call. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is informative, enlightening and accessible. The team’s ability to spot & share relevant and unusual stories make the programme inclusive and thought-provoking. Don’t miss the popular World View feature at 7:45am daily. Listen out for #LesterInYourLounge which is an outside broadcast – from the home of a listener in a different part of Cape Town - on the first Wednesday of every month. This show introduces you to interesting Capetonians as well as their favourite communities, habits, local personalities and neighbourhood news. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit. Listen live – Good Morning CapeTalk with Lester Kiewit is broadcast weekdays between 06:00 and 09:00 (SA Time) https://www.primediaplus.com/station/capetalk Find all the catch-up podcasts here https://www.primediaplus.com/capetalk/good-morning-cape-town-with-lester-kiewit/audio-podcasts/good-morning-cape-town-with-lester-kiewit/ Subscribe to the CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://www.primediaplus.com/competitions/newsletter-subscription/ Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CapeTalk   CapeTalk on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@capetalk   CapeTalk on Instagram: www.instagram.com/capetalkza  CapeTalk on X: www.x.com/CapeTalk  CapeTalk on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Controversial bill on Muslim endowments passed by India’s lower house of parliament; the latest in the US-India tariff war; Elon Musk sues India. Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is a podcast of the CapeTalk breakfast show. This programme is your authentic Cape Town wake-up call. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is informative, enlightening and accessible. The team’s ability to spot & share relevant and unusual stories make the programme inclusive and thought-provoking. Don’t miss the popular World View feature at 7:45am daily. Listen out for #LesterInYourLounge which is an outside broadcast – from the home of a listener in a different part of Cape Town - on the first Wednesday of every month. This show introduces you to interesting Capetonians as well as their favourite communities, habits, local personalities and neighbourhood news. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit. Listen live – Good Morning CapeTalk with Lester Kiewit is broadcast weekdays between 06:00 and 09:00 (SA Time) https://www.primediaplus.com/station/capetalk Find all the catch-up podcasts here https://www.primediaplus.com/capetalk/good-morning-cape-town-with-lester-kiewit/audio-podcasts/good-morning-cape-town-with-lester-kiewit/ Subscribe to the CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://www.primediaplus.com/competitions/newsletter-subscription/ Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CapeTalk   CapeTalk on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@capetalk   CapeTalk on Instagram: www.instagram.com/capetalkza  CapeTalk on X: www.x.com/CapeTalk  CapeTalk on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three men sentenced to death for 1981 caste massacre; redrawing India’s electoral map; Trump tariffs and Indian generic drugs. Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University. This week they discuss a major waterway plan, India’s AI concerns and the impact of USAID funding cuts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Righting the wrongs of the past. African leaders are seeking reparations from former colonial powers, pointing to the enduring impact of systemic discrimination on global inequality and Africa’s underdevelopment. But why now?And what are their chances? In this Episode: Frank Gerits, Assistant Professor, History of International Relations Department, Utrecht University. Liliane Umubyeyi, Co-founder and Co-director, African Furures Action. Host: Adrian Finighan Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook At Al Jazeera Podcasts, we want to hear from you, our listeners. So, please head to https://www.aljazeera.com/survey and tell us your thoughts about this show and other Al Jazeera podcasts. It only takes a few minutes!

India’s Prime Minister to meet with US President amidst fears of tariffs; a look at India’s budget for 2025; and how much is an Indian cow worth? Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some consider the swearing in of a new US President a hallmark of American democracy. Others may be asking themselves, after a whirlwind week of Trump's presidential decrees and controversial pardons how much is democracy in danger in the US? Steve Crilley sat down with Erin Jenne, Professor and Chair of the International Relations Department at Central European University in Vienna, and she her impressions of this transformational time.Sendungshinweis: FM4, OKFM4, 23.01.2025, 17 Uhr

The Maha Kumbh Mela spiritual gathering taking place after a 12-year cycle; calls for a 90-hour work week misinterpreted(?); the Rupee hits an all-time low. Lester Kiewit gets all the details on these stories from Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Kelly talks with the French Ambassador for Sports, Samuel Ducroquet, about the growing role of sports in diplomatic efforts. Samuel Ducroquet was appointed French ambassador for sport in February 2023. He joined the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in 2007 as an International Civilian Volunteer at the French Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels, and has since worked as a political advisor at the French Embassy in Qatar. His experience as an Olympic attaché at the French Embassy in Tokyo allowed him to develop a real expertise on sports diplomacy, reinforced by his position as senior manager in charge of the dignitaries programme in the International Relations Department of the Paris 2024 Games organizing committee, from 2022 to 2023. The opinions expressed in this conversation are strictly those of the participants and do not represent the views of Georgetown University or any government entity. Produced by Freddie Mallinson and Theo Malhotra. Recorded on December 2, 2024. Diplomatic Immunity, a podcast from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, brings you frank and candid conversations with experts on the issues facing diplomats and national security decision-makers around the world. Funding support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. For more, visit our website, and follow us on Linkedin, Twitter @GUDiplomacy, and Instagram @isd.georgetown

India considers synchronisation of all elections; Indian space station gets cabinet nod; 100 days of the Modi government. Lester Kiewit speaks to Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We get analysis from Dr Jenny Mathers of Aberystwyth University's International Relations Department.

GUEST HOST: Peter Mcilvenna filling in for James Freeman.    GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Cybersecurity and privacy professional who became an investigative journalist.  Ehden exposed pharmaceutical contracts, vaccines dangers, European energy market failures.    GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Ben Harris-Quinney, with over a decade of political and international relations experience, is the longest-serving Chairman of The Bow Group, the world's oldest conservative think-tank. He has advised governments in the US, UK, Spain, Japan, Hungary, and Chile, and worked in media, consultancy, charity, and as an elected politician in Hertfordshire, UK. Ben has contributed to major publications like The Guardian and The Daily Mail, and appeared on BBC, Sky News, and Al Jazeera.   An accomplished speaker, Ben has presented at Oxford, Cambridge, and LSE, delivering the 2019 commencement address at Cambridge's International Relations Department. He holds a Master's degree from the London School of Economics. Ben founded Conservatives Abroad in Madrid and Conservative Grassroots to represent conservative views outside London. He served on the board of the Victoria Cross Trust and received the US Leadership Institute's Global Leadership Award and a fellowship at the Royal Society. Under his leadership, The Bow Group was awarded CIPR Think Tank of the Year in 2016.

Shift of American capital from China to India; Westlessness – the new paradigm. Lester Kiewit speaks to Professor Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University, chats to Africa Melane about the state of the Indian economy, India's elections at phase 4, and India's prospects at the Paris Olympics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

India's Supreme Court makes ruling on electoral bonds; India's upcoming elections; implementation of controversial uniform civil code. Lester Kiewit gets all the details from Prof. Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The American international department has confirmed the sanctioning of a substantial number of visas for our Afghan allies who offered their support to our country's military and administrative interests. This took place in the aftermath of the 2021 decision by the present leadership, under President Biden, to retract all American forces from Afghanistan. The meticulous report that provides these details was dispatched on a Thursday to Congress by the principal inspector general. The decision to pull back American troops unfolded a turnaround of events in Afghanistan, culminating in the Taliban seizing widespread control of the region. This unfortunate scenario led to the unfortunate exodus of multiple Afghan citizens, based on data gathered by the Wilson Center. Hence, the U.S., in its dedicated effort to aid our allies fleeing from these dire circumstances, has seen its International Relations Department issuing nearly 34,000 Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to Afghans. These Afghans, who received the visas, include them and their immediate kin. These detailed figures were made available in the Inspector General's report unveiled on the specified Thursday. A special provision, the SIV is a permit to stay permanently for those Afghans who made substantial contributions to U.S. interests in Afghanistan.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I am guessing that most of you have heard about Chinese firms and government's large involvement and investment in Africa. For example, as part of a strategy to secure the resources needed to play a leading role in the economy of the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, China has purchased mining rights, mined, and built refineries for rare earth elements in multiple locations in Africa. But did you know that the annual amount of traded goods between China and Latin America, as well as foreign direct investment is about twice as much between China and Latin America as it is between China and Africa? If we look at Chinese development loans, Latin America has received more in loans than Africa.It has been clear for more than a century that to understand Latin America you must understand the involvement and intervention of the United States in the military, economic and social history of the region. It is now impossible to understand Latin American economies and politics without an understanding of the growing role of China. Looked at through the lens of US/China competition and conflict, this is a major development. Historically, the USA has reacted forcefully to what it saw as ‘interference' in the America's by other countries – will that continue or will the recent neglect/disinterest of the US to LA continue, creating more space/opportunity for even greater Chinese influence?To help us understand these issues and others, I am delighted to be joined in this episode by Professor Chris Alden of the London School of Economics (and a regular contributor to TRIUM). Chris is Deputy Head of the International Relations Department, the Director of LSE IDEAS, and a Research Associate with South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). Chris's newest book (co-authored with Alvaro Mendez) China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics was published earlier this year. Before this book, Chris has written or co-authored of numerous books, including Apartheid's Last Stand – the Rise and Fall of the South African Security State (Palgrave 1996), Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State (Palgrave 2003), China in Africa (Zed Books 2007) Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa (Palgrave/Macmillan 2009) The South and World Politics (Palgrave 2010),Chris is one of the world's leading experts of Chinese involvement in the global south and it was a real pleasure to sit down with him for a wonderful discussion of his latest work. I hope you enjoy the conversation!Citations:Podcast – China and the Global South hosted by Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden and produced by The China-Global South Project (CGSP).Alden, C. & Mendez, A. (2023) China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics. Bloomsbury Academic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The International Relations Department has confirmed that the US ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety has apologized for alleging that the country sold weapons to Russia to use in the war against Ukraine. On Thursday Brigety told local media that US intelligence was confident that arms and ammunition had been loaded onto a Russian ship near Cape Town in December last year. Dirco spokesperson, Clayson Monyela has confirmed the US ambassador's apology.  Meanwhile, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has confirmed that he has spoken to his South African counterpart Naledi Pandor telephonically. A short State Department statement has under-scored the importance of the US-South African strategic partnership. The Presidency has said the government has undertaken to set up an "independent enquiry to be led by a retired judge into the Russian ammunition accusations. We spoke to Guy Martin, editor of DefenceWeb, an online African Defence and Security news publication AND Prof. Waldo Krugell from the School of Economics at North West University

Türkiye approaches its pivotal presidential and parliamentary elections as the nation's political landscape becomes increasingly more competitive with the People's Alliance and the Nation Alliance vying for majority in the Turkish Parliament. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is being challenged by three candidates including the main opposition's Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, Memleket Party's Muharrem İnce, and ATA alliance's Sinan Oğan. These elections will have far-reaching consequences, as they will not only shape Türkiye's political landscape for the next five years but also set the tone for economic outlook, national security, and regional stability. The outcome will have significant foreign policy implications for the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine, relations with the EU and the US as well as neighboring countries. In the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes, voters will judge the candidates' ability to rebuild the country, address the sensitive topics around Kurdish, Alevi and refugee issues, combat terrorism, and address regional challenges. The stakes are high as the results of these elections will undoubtedly play a crucial role in shaping Türkiye's future both domestically and on the international stage.The SETA Foundation at Washington DC is pleased to convene a panel of experts to shed light on the forthcoming Turkish elections, explore the candidates' chances of success, and discuss potential outcomes. SpeakersBurhanettin Duran, General Coordinator at The SETA FoundationTalha Köse, Chair, Political Science and International Relations Department, Ibn Haldun UniversityModeratorKilic Kanat, Research Director, The SETA Foundation at Washington DC --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seta-dc/support

The International Relations Department says its plans are in place to evacuate South Africans who are stuck in Sudan.  South Africa is among the many countries that are racing against time to evacuate their citizens from Sudan. It has put the number of verified South Africans stuck in the country at 77. The sudden eruption of violence between the military and the well-armed Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group earlier this month has triggered a humanitarian crisis. Four-hundred-and-20 people have been killed and millions others left without access to basic services and trapped in their homes. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to founder and chair of the Gift of the Givers Foundation Imtiaz Sooliman.

“As the UK government mulls the idea of using frozen Russian assets to help pay for the rebuilding of war-torn Ukraine, ministers appear to have failed to realise that a simple weapon against sanctioned assets is within their reach. That is introducing a provision forcing sanctioned oligarchs to disclose all their assets in the UK.” Today I will be discussing this idea that could make a huge difference to Ukraine with the author of these words, Maria Nizzero. We'll be discussing whether it is moral or feasible to funnel the assets of rich Russians to pay for the crimes of a regime that they enabled. Maria Nizzero is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS) of the Royal United Services Institute. Her research focuses on UK economic crime, the foreign policy dimension of illicit finance, asset recovery, kleptocracy and corporate transparency. Her work is important to the war in Ukraine, as she is currently looking at ways to recover frozen sanctioned assets. Maria has extensive knowledge of and deep personal interest in the topics of European Union politics, illicit finance and security studies, organised crime, and terrorism. She is a former Associate Professor of EU Politics and currently PhD candidate in the Law Programme at UPF, International Public Law and International Relations Department.

In September 2022, following a tense but peaceful transition of power, William Ruto became president of Kenya. As part of his so-called ‘Hustler' narrative, President Ruto committed to addressing rising inequality and poverty through the provision of cheap credit to the young voters who put in him in office. The new government also committed to increase funding for renewable energy, to education reforms, to end police brutality and to focus on the ‘common mwananchi' or common person, otherwise known as ‘Hustler', or mwananchi in Kiswahili. Yet, as Kenya's leading opposition party increasingly challenge the legitimacy of the elections, questions remain about the stability of the Ruto Presidency. This presentation by Dr Njoki Wamai discusses the Kenyan presidential election outcome and the implications which it may have for the region, the European Union and Ireland. Njoki Wamai PhD is an Assistant Professor in the International Relations Department at the United States International University-Africa. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Governance and Human Rights at the Politics and International Studies Department at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD in politics and international studies as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in 2017. Previously, Dr Wamai was a Peace, Security and Development Scholar at the African Leadership Centre at King's College London. She has published book chapters and articles with Oxford University Press, Routledge and Zed Books on international intervention, the International Criminal Court, mediation and violence using postcolonial and decolonial approaches.

"Когда есть выбор - всегда есть возможности для развития"(С) Сулейман НоврузовВ новом выпуске шоу подкастов "HARK&MOVE" Анна Мжельская и Сулейман Новрузов обсудили, какие сейчас существуют перспективы для переезда в Азербайджан с целью обучения или работы:Образование в Азербайджане: насколько востребовано, какие перспективы, насколько система отличается от устоявшейся на территории пост-советских стран?Чем так хорош частный образовательный сектор: зачем нужна Франция, когда в Азербайджане уже развивается французский сектор?Стереотипы о бюрократии в образовательном секторе: насколько правдивы?Почему существует так называемая «текучка мозгов» (юные перспективные специалисты уезжают из страны)?Какие специальности наиболее востребованы и где нужны специалисты, насколько высок уровень безработицы? Спойлер: нужны специалисты в сфере альтернативной энергии, с бизнесом пока можно притормозить, IT пользуется высоким спросом.К чему нужно быть готовым, переезжая в Азербайджан?*Со-ведущий: Сулейман Новрузов - выпускник Baku Oxford School, образовательного учреждения частного сектора в Азербайджане, в настоящие дни студент 3 курса International Relationships Department в Bilkent University, Turkey.Весь подкаст на русском языке.//"When there is a choice, there are always opportunities for development"(C) Suleyman NovruzovIn new episode of HARK&MOVE podcasts' show Anna Mzhelskaia and Suleyman Novruzov discussed what are the prospects for moving to Azerbaijan to study or work:Education in Azerbaijan: is it in demand, which kind of opportunities are available, how much does the system differ from the one established in the post-soviet countries?Why is the private educational sector so popular: why is France needed when the french sector is already developing in Azerbaijan?Stereotypes about bureaucracy in the education sector: true or false?Why is there so-called “brain turnover” on the high level (young promising specialists leave the country for better prospects)?What kind of specialists is mostly in demand and which fields are more needed different specialists, is the unemployment rate high? Spoiler: experts in the field of alternative energy are needed, business can be slowed down for now for beginners, IT is in high demand.How you can be prepared for the moment of moving to Azerbaijan?*Co-host: Suleyman Novruzov, who graduated from Baku Oxford School, a private sector educational institution in Azerbaijan, currently a 3rd year student at the International Relations Department at Bilkent University, Turkey.The whole podcast is in RUS.

Midterm elections have kicked off in the USA, and we've had polls reveal that the Republican Party, is on the verge of taking back control of the US House of Representatives, for the first time in four years. What would this mean for policy, and relations, with countries like South Africa? Business Day TV spoke to John Stremlau, from Wits University's International Relations Department for more.

With Prof Dilip  Menon Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this edition of the Wednesday Panel, Refilwe Moloto discusses the role and purpose of the British Commonwealth. Our guests are Denis O'Kane, a news presenter from Melbourne's 3AW, and Prof Dilip Menon, Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With Prof Dilip Menon Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prof Dilip Menon Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prof Dilip  Menon Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

İletişim teknolojilerinde yaşanan gelişmeler hayatımızın tüm alanını olduğu gibi diplomasi kavramını ve diplomatik faaliyetlerini de dönüştürmektedir. Özellikle COVID-19 pandemisiyle birlikte teknolojik olanaklardan yararlanan diplomatik faaliyetler büyük ölçüde dijital alanda gerçekleştirilmiş ve bu alanın önem kazanmasına zemin sağlamıştır. Bu bölümde Doç. Dr. Fatih Fuat Tuncer ile dijital diplomasi kavramını ve kavramın geleceğini tartışacağız. *Doç. Dr. Fatih Fuat Tuncer, Beykent Üniversitesi Uluslararası Bölümünde öğretim üyesi. Birçok kitap, makale ve bildiriye imza atan Tuncer; kimlik, dijitalleşme, kültür, iletişim, Avrupa, Asya-Pasifik ve Latin Amerika gibi konularda uzmandır. The advancements in communications technologies transform the concept of diplomacy and diplomatic practices, as well as all aspects of our lives. With the COVID-19 pandemic, diplomatic practices that benefited from technological opportunities mainly were carried out in the digital sphere, laying the groundwork for this field to gain prominence. In this episode, we will chat with Assoc. Prof. Fatih Fuat Tuncer, about the concept of digital diplomacy and its prospects. *Assoc. Prof. Fatih Fuat Tuncer is Beykent University's International Relations Department faculty member. Tuncer has authored numerous books, articles, and papers; he specialises in identity, digitisation, culture, communications, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America.

This panel explored the interconnectedness of Turkey's domestic and foreign politics over the past two decades. How do geopolitical histories and imaginaries affect Turkey's foreign policy? What are the links between everyday culture and Turkey's foreign policy? To what extent have global and regional developments impacted on and informed domestic politics? In what ways has foreign policy been used as a technique of governance? Evren Balta is Professor of International Relations and chair of the International Relations Department at Özyeğin University. She is the author of 'The American Passport in Turkey: National Citizenship in the Age of Transnationalism' (with O Altan-Olcay, UPenn, 2020), 'Age of Uneasiness' (İletisim, 2019) and 'Global Security Complex' (İletisim, 2012). She is the editor of 'Neighbors with Suspicion: Dynamics of Turkish-Russian Relations' (with G. Ozcan and B. Besgul, İletisim, 2017); 'Introduction to Global Politics' (Iletisim, 2014) and 'Military, State and Politics in Turkey' (with I. Akca, Bilgi University Press, 2010). She served as a research fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences/Russia in Global Dialogue Program (Vienna, Austria 2017) and as a Fulbright visiting associate professor at New York University, Program in International Relations during the 2017-2018 academic year. Balta is a senior scholar at Istanbul Policy Center, a member of the Global Relations Forum and co-editor of International Relations Journal. She was appointed as the academic coordinator of TÜSİAD Global Politics Forum in 2021. Lisel Hintz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and was visiting assistant professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. She studies the arenas in which struggles over various forms of identity – e.g., national, ethnic, religious, gender – take place. Her regional focus is on Turkey and its relations with the Middle East, Europe, and the US. Her 2018 book 'Identity Politics Inside Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey' (Oxford University Press) examines how Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) used foreign policy gambits to weaken its domestic obstacles and open up space for disseminating its own Ottoman Islamist understanding of Turkish national identity and, ultimately, the ways in which contestation over national identity spills over to shape and be shaped by foreign policy. Her current book project, under contract with Cambridge University Press, investigates Turkey's state-society struggles over identity in the pop culture sphere. Her work also appears in journals and news outlets contributing to discussions on Turkey's increasing authoritarianism, opposition dynamics, foreign policy shifts, and identity-related topics including Kurdish, Alevi, and gender issues. Spyros A. Sofos is a Researcher at the LSE Middle East Centre. Spyros has been a member of the Fragmentation of peacemaking and peacebuilding: Non-Western dynamics of peace and transition management project team, funded by the FCDO and the PeaceRep Consortium. His research explores the intersection of societal insecurity, identity, and collective action and, to date, it has focused on Turkish politics and society, nationalism, populism and Islamism in Europe and the Middle East, urban citizenship, and European Muslim identities and politics. His latest book Turkish Politics and ‘The People': Mass Mobilisation and Populism (Edinburgh University Press) – explores the emergence of populism in Turkey and its genealogy as a tradition of action and discourse. His other publications include 'Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe' (Routledge), 'Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey' (Oxford University Press), 'Islam in Europe: Public Spaces and Civic Networks' (Palgrave).

Prof Dilip Menon Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prof Dilip Menon Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrea Carlson, PhD, works in the International Relations Department at Aichi Prefectural University and is involved in not-for-profit groups that are working to protect kominka and revitalize rural communities. #traditionaljapanesehouses #kominka #andreacarlson Andrea is the representative of the Japan Kominka Association's US Office and the Kominka Forum, the group's international events arm, and is a member of the Kominka Japan Board. She also supports the work of the Kominka Collective and Toda Komuten, for profit organizations which aim to protect old houses by making owning and restoring kominka more straightforward for Japan's multicultural community and people living overseas. Andrea has a background in Social Psychology and organizes workshops and other events related to mental health support for young people with diverse backgrounds in Japan. In the future she hopes to restore kominka in rural areas as places to hold retreats for children and young people from LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities. The Japan Kominka Association's US Office (Representative) https://kominka-us.com (https://kominka-us.com) The Kominka Forum (Representative) https://www.kominkaforum.com (https://www.kominkaforum.com) Kominka Japan (Board member) https://kominkajapan.org (https://kominkajapan.org) The Connections Forum (Lead Organizer) https://www.multiculturaljapan.com (https://www.multiculturaljapan.com) ** About JJWalsh - InboundAmbassador ** Seek Sustainable Japan talkshow-podcast is LIVE every week: talks with "Good People Doing Great Things" to inspire ideas for your work, life and travel in Japan and beyond. JOIN on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbjRdeieOLGes008y_I9y5Q/join Please Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/JJWalshInboundAmbassador?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to the SeekingSustainability LIVE Talkshow on Podcast [AUDIO] http://www.inboundambassador.com/ssl-podcasts/ ALL Talks in Seek Sustainable Japan (April 2020~) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcyYXjRuE20GsvS0rEOgSiQVAyKbEFSRP JJWalsh Official InboundAmbassador Websites: https://www.inboundambassador.com/ https://www.seeksustainablejapan.com Please join, become a monthly sponsor or a 1-time donation supporter on YouTube / Patreon / BuyMeACoffee / or KoFi - every little bit helps keep Seek Sustainable Japan going, thank you! Joy is also doing regular walking tours around Hiroshima and other parts of Japan on HeyGo - free to join and tip if you like it! All Links: https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh (https://linktr.ee/jjwalsh) ** Get in Touch!! ** Doing something great in Japan or beyond with a connection to Japan? Or know someone who would be great to interview? Please get in touch! I'd love to hear from you! ~~~ Music by Hana Victoria Music rights to "Won't you See" purchased for Seek Sustainable Japan 2022 Hana Victoria Short Bio My name is Hana Victoria, and I am a Japanese-American singer songwriter who dreams of inspiring, encouraging and empowering others through my music. Every word, melody, and visual comes straight from my heart, and I hope they influence you in some positive way :) YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/HanaVictoria (https://www.youtube.com/c/HanaVictoria) INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hanavictoria_cozycorner/ (https://www.instagram.com/hanavictoria_cozycorner/) SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CHm2w1lJWuiu9txD1wYyq?si=oF7shMElTiid46ZZerCbIg (https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CHm2w1lJWuiu9txD1wYyq?si=oF7shMElTiid46ZZerCbIg) APPLE MUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hana-victoria/1550597954 (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/hana-victoria/1550597954)

Guest: Prof Dilip  Menon | Professor of History in the International Relations Department at Wits University 1) Debate about Hindi as the national language 2) Indian conservationist wins Whitley Award 3) Indians exiting the labour force 4) India ranks a dismal 150th out of 180 countries on the Press Freedom Index.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The High Court in Pretoria has barred the government from donating 50-million-rand to the Republic of Cuba which had been earmarked as humanitarian aid in that country. Earlier this month, lobby group Afriforum urgently applied to interdict the payment saying the decision to approve the donation was unconstitutional. The International Relations Department's announcement last year regarding the proposed payment drew heavy criticism from civil society groups and some political parties. The money would have come from the department's The African Renaissance and International Cooperation Fund. For more on this here is South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair in African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg, Professor Chris Landsberg

The World Trade Organization is an intergovernmental organization with 164 member states, dealing with the rules of trade between nations. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the WTO's primary objective is to facilitate rules-based and predictable trade flows. It accomplishes this by settling trade disputes, acting as a forum for trade negotiations, and by building the trade capacity of developing economies. The annual Public Forum is the WTO's largest annual outreach event, giving a platform to thousands of NGOs, businesses, academia, the media, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society to discuss issues facing the multilateral trading system. The trading system faces serious challenges to its ability to provide a stable, functioning framework for trade negotiations, dispute settlement, and rules-based trade. This episode features some insights from the leading minds in international trade about the issues facing the trading system today. The interview clips used in this podcast come from meetings with stakeholders and WTO Public Forum sessions. Guests: Ambassador Stephen de Boer - Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO, Global Affairs Canada Gabrielle Marceau - Economics Research and Statistics Division, World Trade Organization John Hannaford - Deputy Minister of International Trade, Global Affairs Canada Sara Wilshaw - Chief Trade Commissioner, Global Affairs Canada His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa - President of the Republic of South Africa Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Director-General, World Trade Organization Dr. Radhika Desai - Professor of Political Economy, University of Manitoba Diane Gray - President and CEO of CentrePort Canada Dr. Olu Fasan - Visiting Fellow & Guest Lecturer, International Relations Department of the London School of Economics Produced By: Lindsay Bain - Delegate, WTO Public Forum 2021 Ashton Connor Mathias - Delegate, WTO Public Forum 2021 Faria Amin - Executive Producer, Beyond the Headlines

Yoweri Museveni's 35 years of iron-gripped ruthless authoritarianism in Uganda did not take place in a vacuum. It has instead been a years-long process of converting the country's institutions into instruments of arbitrary power, which has been fueled by a series of targeted moves to destabilize the social coordination that would be needed to hold leadership accountable. This has been the fascinating focus of research for Prof. Rebecca Tapscott, a visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Politics and International Relations Department. She joined the Departures with Robert Amsterdam podcast this week to discuss her book, "Arbitrary States: Social Control and Modern Authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda." Tapscott explains that for Uganda, among other countries with nationalist movements which took power, it is crucial that there is a high level of "unpredictability and arbitrariness" which shapes people's experience of how the state works, how they experience security and justice. Her research takes an interesting look into the functioning of hybrid regimes, where some vestigial presence of democratic institutions continue to exist but are largely rendered ineffective in terms of successful opposition organizing.

Join us for an empowering conversation with Jorge from Mexico, taking a deep dive into community development, positive peace and building the community we want to create from the grass roots. More on Jorge: Jorge is Mexican, son to Bolivian parents, with a strong Latin American identity. He is a Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni, graduated with a Masters in Public Administration in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked on the strengthening of Civil Society Organizations in Mexico for over 10 years. Jorge is a member of the Advisors´ Council to the Mexican International Cooperation Network and a founding member of the social impact consultancy Embajada Social México. He is Elected President 2021-2022 of the Rotary Club Puebla Centro Histórico, District 4185, and professor with the International Relations Department at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico. He likes to climb mountains.

Hillary and Tina speak to Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Franita Tolson Franita Tolson is Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where she also holds a courtesy appointment in the Political Science and International Relations Department. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, and legal history. Her research has appeared in leading law reviews and focus on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, political parties, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Vice Dean Tolson is one of the coauthors of the leading election law casebook, The Law of Democracy (Foundation Press, 6th ed., forthcoming 2022). Her forthcoming book, In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era, will be published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press. For show notes and links to our sources, please click here (https://themuckpodcast.fireside.fm/articles/lmep37notes). Special Guest: Franita Tolson.

Join us for an empowering conversation with Jorge from Mexico, taking a deep dive into community development, positive peace and building the community we want to create from the grass roots. More on Jorge: Jorge is Mexican, son to Bolivian parents, with a strong Latin American identity. He is a Rotary Peace Fellowship Alumni, graduated with a Masters in Public Administration in Tokyo, Japan. He has worked on the strengthening of Civil Society Organizations in Mexico for over 10 years. Jorge is a member of the Advisors´ Council to the Mexican International Cooperation Network and a founding member of the social impact consultancy Embajada Social México. He is Elected President 2021-2022 of the Rotary Club Puebla Centro Histórico, District 4185, and professor with the International Relations Department at Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico. He likes to climb mountains.

Democrat Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th U.S. President on Wednesday (January 20), taking the helm of a country beset by deep political divides and battered by a raging coronavirus pandemic. At 78, Biden becomes the oldest U.S. president in history. Biden succeeds Republican Donald Trump, who left the White House early on Wednesday after a tumultuous four years in office. So what can we expect from the new leader and what will his approach be to SA? John Stremlau from Wits University's International Relations Department gives his take on the changing of the guard over in the US.

President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in today making him the 46th president of the United States. So what can we expect from the new leader and what will his approach be to SA? Business Day TV spoke to John Stremlau from Wits University's International Relations Department for his take on the changing of the guard over in the US.

Black Diplomats is back to talk about nuclear non-proliferation with two experts from Eastern Europe - Polina Sinovits from Ukraine, and Ekaterina Mikhaylenko from Russia. Both women study, write, and teach about the way nuclear weapons affect international relations, and the massive, stupid threat they pose to the world. Host Terrell J. Starr has interviewed many experts in the field and contributes his own analysis of the ways the so-called Nuclear Club contributes to maintaining white supremacy on a global scale. They discuss the absurd numbers of nuclear weapons around the world and the cost to maintain them, disarm the myth of deterrence, and talk about what steps must be taken to walk humanity back from the brink. Ekaterina Mikhaylenko is Associate Professor at the Department of Theory and History of International Relations of Ural Federal University. She has more than 18-years experience teaching the history of international relations, political and security issues at the Department of International Relations, Ural Federal University. Currently Ekaterina is teaching courses, related to contemporary issues of international relations and international security problems. Ekaterina has more than 20 publications, in Russian and English, on European regionalism and projects realized in the post-Soviet space. Polina Sinovets is the head of the Odessa Center for Nonproliferation at the Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University, Ukraine. She is also Associate Professor in the International Relations Department at ONU. Previously Dr. Sinovets served as senior research associate at Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies, as well as a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and NATO Defense College. She is an expert in nuclear weapons policy  and published articles in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Russia in Global Politics, NATO Defense College Research Papers etc.  Dr. Sinovets is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Middlebury Institute International Studies, based at Washington DC. Thank you for listening!

The following solidarity statement was issued by the International Relations Department of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) Dear comrades, On behalf of the Communist Party of Turkey, we express our heartfelt support for the working people of the United States who took to the streets protesting the brutal murder of George Floyd by racist policemen. In the past weeks, people’s anger has already grown because of the devastating social effects of the pandemic. The Trump administration’s failure in containing the spread of the disease and its outcomes has deepened the vast social inequalities in the United States, marked by unemployment, poverty and homelessness. The Party for Socialism and Liberation is struggling at the forefront of the manifestations. With their creative efforts and efficient campaigns, comrades of the PSL reveal the bonds between racism and exploitation, which is as we all know in its essence a problem of labour. We are witnessing how powerful the working people can become, when they are united and organized against the dominant classes, regardless of which bourgeois party they are represented by. Communists in Turkey are and will remain in solidarity with communists of the USA and with the great struggle of the working people there, aiming for justice for Floyd and equality for all. With comradely greetings, Communist Party of Turkey International Relations https://www.liberationnews.org/communist-party-of-turkey-justice-for-george-floyd-solidarity-with-the-uprising/

The South African Hajj & Umrah Council (SAHUC) says it will be meeting with the International Relations Department’s to discuss this year’s forthcoming hajj season which is just a few weeks away.

hey HIPodism! do you believe in zombies? do they exist in real life??? in this episode, we invited our special guest Muhammad Fauzi Abdul Rachman, M.A (Lecturer of International Relations Department) to talks about "Zombies in International Relations perspectives". Are you curious??? what are you waiting for? so listen now!

hey HIPodism! in this episode we invited our Special Guest, Dr. Indra Kusumawardhana (Lecturer of International Relations Department). he's our first lecturer guest! it's time for him to spill the tea about what it feels like to be International Relations' Lecturer and his trip to China! so... hear it now!

In this episode of The Cloakroom, the Daily Iowan sits down with Professor David Redlawsk to discuss the Iowa Caucuses. Professor Redlawsk currently chairs the Political Science and International Relations Department at the University of Delaware. Additionally, Professor Redlawsk wrote the book Why Iowa, which discusses the Iowa Caucus' history and purpose.

“I’m either the world’s greatest storyteller or the world’s greatest secret keeper.” At 60, Tracy Hyter-Suffern, can proudly say,  “I am coming into my own. I’m the woman my mother kept trying to raise.” That woman is a glorious storyteller, joyful and wise, a salsa dancer, and a fierce and fearless cultural and social justice activist. She is the Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum of Harlem, the first Director of the Y.W.C.A. International Relations Department, and over the years ran and fundraised for many groups, from Urban Bush Women to Black Agency Executives. Tracy grew up --and still lives-- in “small town” Staten Island, “a Black girl from the projects” who in her 20s unearthed the family secret: her father’s family was not Black but Native American! It’s a great story that ends with Tracy successfully enrolling the family in the Ramapough Lunaape Nation. Listen now as Tracy shares this and other stories, along with her “Nine Reasons We Are Here.”

Speakers: Courtney Freer, Toby Doge, LSE Middle East Centre; Stéphane Lacroix, Sciences Po, Paris; John Jenkins, Policy Exchange, London. Scholars of Middle Eastern politics have long overlooked the role played by political Islam in domestic politics of the wealthy monarchical states of the Arabian Gulf, so-called 'rentier states'. While rentier state theory assumes that citizens of such states will form opposition blocs only when their stake in rent income is threatened, this book demonstrates that ideology, rather than rent, has motivated the formation of independent Islamist movements in the wealthiest states of the region, specifically, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The book therefore argues that Brotherhood movements have managed to use the links between the social (i.e. informal personal networks) and political (i.e. government institutions) to gain influence in policymaking in such states. Using contemporary history and original empirical research, Courtney Freer updates traditional rentier state theory and argues that political Islam serves as a prominent voice and tool to promote more strictly political, and often populist or reformist, views supported by many Gulf citizens. Recorded on 16 October. ----------------------------------------- Courtney Freer (@courtneyfreer) is Research Officer at the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her work focuses on the domestic politics of the Arab Gulf states, with a particular focus on Islamism and tribalism. Sir John Jenkins is a British ex-diplomat, Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange in London and a Board Member of the LSE Middle East Centre and also of the American University of Iraq at Suleimaniya. Stéphane Lacroix is associate professor of political science at Sciences Po in Paris and a researcher at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Toby Dodge (@ProfTobyDodge) is Kuwait Programme Director, Kuwait Professor and Professor in the International Relations Department. Image: Qatar's Abdulwahab Grand Mosque. Image Courtesy of Omar Chatriwala, Flickr.

Speakers: Toby Dodge, Zeynep Kaya and Jessica Watkins, LSE Middle East Centre; Renad Mansour; Chatham House. It has now been over a year since the liberation of Mosul by Iraqi government forces in July 2017. This victory marks a new stage in the violent conflict that has destabilised Iraq since at least regime change in 2003. In some ways, the breakthrough in July 2017 can be compared firstly to the initial aftermath of the invasion in April 2003 until the insurgency transformed itself into a civil war in 2005, and then secondly to the period following the US-led surge that started in February 2007 until the reconstitution of ISIS and the fall of Mosul in 2014. However, as all these examples indicate, if the underlying drivers of instability are not properly identified and mediated through accurately targeted policy interventions, then a return to the levels of organised violence that have dominated Iraq for the majority of the last fifteen years is likely. This event marks the launch of the Conflict Research Programme (CRP) Iraq. Funded by UK DFID, the Conflict Research Programme (CRP) is a three-year programme designed to address the drivers and dynamics of violent conflict in the Middle East and Africa and to inform the measures being used to tackle armed conflict and its impacts. Recorded on 30 October 2018 --------------------------------- Toby Dodge (@ProfTobyDodge) Toby is Kuwait Programme Director, Kuwait Professor and Professor in the International Relations Department. Zeynep Kaya (@zeynepn_kaya) is Research Fellow at the LSE Middle East Centre. Renad Mansour (@renadmansour) is Research Fellow in the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Jessica Watkins is Research Officer at the Middle East Centre, currently working on a DFID-funded project looking at regional drivers of conflict in Iraq and Syria. Image: An Iraqi Bazaar. Photo: serkansenturk.

In the framework of the 7th World Forum on Energy Regulation (WFER), ICER Women in Energy and FSR teamed up to ‘give a voice’ to women professionals actively contributing to the event. Annegret Groebel is Vice-President at CEER and Head of the International Relations Department at BNetzA, Germany’s multisector regulatory authority. In this podcast, she sheds light on BNetzA’s approach and discusses the main similarities and differences when it comes to a ‘multisector regulation’. Network industries under the supervision of BNetzA share similar cost structures and face the problem of recovering sunk costs. The challenge for regulators is then to assess those costs and ensure an adequate structure and level of the network tariff paid by network users. However, regulators like BNetzA play a role also in ensuring the integrity and transparency of the wholesale markets, as mandated in the EU by REMIT. As a concluding remark, Ms Groebel stresses the importance of looking at the regulatory experience of other countries and other sectors. Knowledge sharing, eagerness to learn and cooperation are essential to avoid mistakes and improve the regulation of the industries under the oversight of NRAs. Check out more podcasts like this one and learn more about the Lights on Women Initiative here: medium.com/lights-on-women/

This week's guest is Melissa Forziat, Owner of Melissa Forziat Events. She also helps a lot of small businesses with their marketing needs. Everything from free resources like her ebook to help them get started to marketing consulting and coaching. Highlights From This Episode: Melissa didn't start off planning to create her own small business... She grew up competing in gymnastics but after she was done being able to compete, she wanted to be able to stay connected to the gymnastics and athletic world. So Melissa started doing major international sport events and started by volunteering at the 1998 Goodwill Games. Next she worked the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy and then worked a couple years for the U.S. Olympic Committee as part of their International Relations Department, 2010 Olympic Winter Games in BC, CA and the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. At the end of the Rugby World Cup, she ended up landing in Seattle and as she was interviewing for event planning positions and jobs around Seattle, everyone wanted to know what she had done here specifically. In one of her informational interviews, she accidentally said that she is now accepting new clients. A week later that person referred a client to her, who was looking for a free-lance event manager... And so Melissa Forziat Events was created! After starting her own business, she also has the flexibility to work some additional international sporting events again, like she did with the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto and 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Brazil. The marketing piece came a little later, as you can't really do an event without marketing it, so they are really go hand-in-hand. When she got to Seattle, many of her friends ended up being small business owners and she was always getting questions from them about how to grow their client base, often on a very small budget. She also started working closely with a Venture Non-Profit, a Seattle organization that helps educate and train low-income, minority and other under-serviced people on how to take their idea and start their own small businesses. They also have limited resources and so she found that the skill set she was building to help her small business owner friends and the clients of Ventures was very much the same... People just trying to get by, pay their employees, take care of their families and pay for life but don't have a lot of money to get their message out there to acquire new clients and grow their business. Melissa got involved with Ventures Non-Profit (check out our interview with Beto Yarce, Venture Executive Director on Ep. 28), as a means to get to know more people in Seattle and be able to help. She started volunteering with them on a committee and was then invited to join the Ventures Board of Directors. She really sees the value of small business owners being able to be part of a community like Ventures because so many business owners, despite the type of business, share the same pinpoints and struggles as they figure out how to start and run their own business and sharing and learning from each other and realizing that they are not alone in it is huge. Though Melissa's business is named Melissa Forziat Events, most of the events she works on a larger scale projects, while she does a lot more on the marketing side for small businesses and solopreneurs. Even if you currently have zero dollars to spend on marketing, she has options for that... like her FREE "Small Business Marketing On A Budget" ebook and weekly blog with good marketing tips and a strong Facebook community full of other small business owners sharing tips, and helping each other out. Melissa provides a ton of free marketing information to help get small businesses to a place of being able to utilize her paid information, consultation and coaching. What do you love most about what you do? The people that Melissa works with. Whether working with a non-profit on an event or a small business on their marketing, there is an underwriting sense of passion she senses in her clients and she gets a lot of fulfillment in helping her clients realize their goals and dreams in their business, professional and personal lives. What have you found to be the most challenging aspect of running your own business? Staying confident. As your getting started and trying new things or taking on new types of clients, you may not have the experience yet to feel confident in your abilities. What was most surprising or unexpected with opening your own business? The shear volume of highs and lows in the roller coaster that happens in a single day. What set's you apart from others in your industry? The majority of the businesses Melissa works with are micro-businesses (5 or fewer employees) and she really enjoys helping those smaller businesses grow and get to a better place and while she likes to work with businesses in Seattle, she works with businesses all over the world. What is your greatest strength? Creativity in both how she helps her clients and grows her business. What habit do you wish you had? Better sleep schedule. What are you passionate about? Supporting the people she cares about... and her clients end up becoming those people. She also does improve comedy in Seattle. In the past, what was holding you back from becoming the entrepreneur you are today? After doing one of her first speaking engagements of teaching an Advance Marketing Class for Ventures Non-Profit, she had a line of business owners lining up to ask her questions and she realized that she does think about marketing for a living and way more then most business owners do, so she does have knowledge to share and a valuable service to provide. It comes back to confidence in having something that can benefit and help others. What is the best advice you have ever received? "Except Invitations". What is a personal habit that contributes to your success? A very detail oriented hard worker. Do you listen to podcasts? What are your favorites? Amy Porterfield podcast, which is a marketing focused podcast (I've heard an episode of Pat Flynn's "Smart Passive Income", with Amy Porterfield as a guest and it was quite good). The type of podcast's you listen to can tell you a lot about how you want to be, based on what you are drawn to or relate to the content and how it is presented. Finding the podcasts you like and then asking yourself why you like it can help you develop yourself and your brand and speaking style. What is your one book recommendation for our listeners? Melissa's FREE "Small Business Marketing On A Budget" ebook, which covers 10 different types of marketing that you can do if you have little to no money to spend on marketing. Episode Links & Resources: Guest's Website:  http://melissaforziatevents.com Like on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MelissaForziatEvents/ Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MForziatEvents Guest's offer: FREE "Small Business Marketing On A Budget" ebook Guest's recommended books/tools/resources: Melissa's FREE "Small Business Marketing On A Budget" ebook, which covers 10 different types of marketing that you can do if you have little to no money to spend on marketing. Guest's favorite podcast(s): Amy Porterfield podcast, which is a marketing focused podcast Learn more about Christian, other projects he's working on and his business at: www.Sea-Town.com Ways to Subscribe to The Sea-Town Podcast: "Like" the Sea-Town Podcast FaceBook Page HERE Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here to subscribe on Google Play Click here to subscribe on TuneIn Click here to subscribe on Stitcher Help Us Spread The Word - Reviews Help a Ton! Thanks for joining me again this week. 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Dr Imitiaz Sooliman, Director of the Gift of the Givers says efforts are continuing to facilitate the release of a South African photo-journalist, Shiraaz Mohamed, who has allegedly been kidnapped in Syria. The International Relations Department says it is doing its best to ensure the release of the 38-year-old.

Event recording from 19/10/2016: TAMING THE IMPERIAL IMAGINATION: COLONIAL KNOWLEDGE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, AND THE ANGLO-AFGHAN ENCOUNTER, 1808-1878 Dr Bayly wrote his doctoral thesis in King's War Studies. He has recently written a book with the same title of the talk based on his doctoral thesis. Dr Bayly was the founder of King's Afghan Studies Group and is a postdoctoral fellow at LSE. He is returning to present his book to the Afghan Studies Group in conversation with Dr Avinash Paliwal. Dr Paliwal recently completed his doctorate at King's and took over the Afghan Studies Group from Dr Bayly. Taming the Imperial Imagination (Cambridge University Press) marks a novel intervention into the debate on empire and international relations, and offers a new perspective on nineteenth-century Anglo- Afghan relations. Martin J. Bayly shows how, throughout the nineteenth century, the British Empire in India sought to understand and control its peripheries through the use of colonial knowledge. Addressing the fundamental question of what Afghanistan itself meant to the British at the time, he draws on extensive archival research to show how knowledge of Afghanistan was built, refined and warped by an evolving colonial state. This knowledge informed policy choices and cast Afghanistan in a separate legal and normative universe. Beginning with the disorganized exploits of nineteenth-century explorers and ending with the cold strategic logic of the militarized ‘scientific frontier’, this book tracks the nineteenth-century origins of contemporary policy ‘expertise’ and the forms of knowledge that inform interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere today. Dr Martin J Bayly is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the International Relations Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Department of War Studies, King's College London, an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University, and a BA with First Class Honours in Politics from the University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne. For more information, visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/events/eventsrecords/bayly-asg.aspx

It's been more than two years since Joko Widodo was elected Indonesian President. While his election occurred on a wave of high hopes and high expectations, little was known at the time about how the new President would approach Indonesia's international affairs. Dr Evi Fitriani (Head of the International Relations Department at Universitas Indonesia)talks to Dr Rebecca Strating (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University) about Indonesia's approach to foreign policy under the Widoko administration.

It’s been more than two years since Joko Widodo was elected Indonesian President. While his election occurred on a wave of high hopes and high expectations, little was known at the time about how the new President would approach Indonesia’s international affairs. Dr Evi Fitriani (Head of the International Relations Department at Universitas Indonesia)talks to Dr Rebecca Strating (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University) about Indonesia’s approach to foreign policy under the Widoko administration.

It’s been more than two years since Joko Widodo was elected Indonesian President. While his election occurred on a wave of high hopes and high expectations, little was known at the time about how the new President would approach Indonesia’s international affairs. Dr Evi Fitriani (Head of the International Relations Department at Universitas Indonesia)talks to Dr Rebecca Strating (Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University) about Indonesia’s approach to foreign policy under the Widoko administration.

Welcome to this episode of Conversations. // I’m Christine June – a public affairs specialist at the Marshall Center, and today, my guest is Mrs. Aurora Martin. // MRS Martin is the Senior Advisor with the International Relations Department for the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs, National Agency for Equal Opportunities in Bucharest and a Marshall Center Alumna.// This morning – January 26, 2016, Mrs. Martin gave a presentation on “Security, conflict & conflict management: Implications for Civil Society”// to 42 participants from 25 countries attending the Marshall Center’s Seminar on Regional Security// – which focuses specifically on regional security dynamics. She is here to talk with us little bit about her current position with the Romanian Ministry of Labor, Family and Social Affairs, National Agency for Equal Opportunities// and her take on the importance of the Marshall Center’s 11,000 PLUS alumni network and how it has helped her in her career. // And of course, I will ask her some questions about her presentation this morning.//

This podcast features Scott Wise, Roei Dans and their guest Sue Pryce, filmed on 30th June 2015. Sue Pryce is a drug policy expert and a University of Nottingham Professor in the Politics & International Relations Department. Sue Pryce has written several books regarding drug policy including the widely renowned ‘Fixing Drugs’. The conversation starts off with a brief discussion about television and House of Cards before talking about what it’s like to be a University Professor. Pryce talks about her life so far before the guys move on to discussion immigration and trans-national drug smuggling. Pryce explains the environmental damage that comes with the illegal drug trade as a strong argument for anti-prohibition. Pryce opens up and discusses her own son’s heroin addiction and how the government aims to deal with addiction and how it doesn’t match the reality of addiction. Wise, Dans & Pryce discuss medication and better living through chemistry before the conversation moves to the differences between physiological and psychological addiction. The discussion moves to positives and optimism about drug policy moving forward. 00:00 – 01:45: Introducing Sue Pryce 01:46 – 02:44: House of Cards 02:45 – 05:20: Being a University Professor 05:21 – 07:15: The Pryce Is Right 07:16 – 10:30: Burqas & Migration 10:31 – 12:31: “We Cannot Stop Drugs Coming Into Our Countries” 12:32 – 14:04: “If You Put it in a Dog or Guinea Pig” 14:05 – 15:44: Environmental Damage from Drugs 15:45 – 18:30: Prohibition vs. Legalisation 18:31 – 25:39: My Son’s Heroin Addiction 25:40 – 28:56: How Does The Government Deal With Addiction? 28:57 – 31:53: Better Living Through Chemistry? 31:54 – 35:59: What Do You Think Addiction Is? 36:00 – 38:30: The Psychology & Physiology of Addiction 38:31 – 40:40: Optimism About the Future of Drug Policy 40:41 – 43:50: What’s In Your Drugs & Legal Highs? 43:51 – 45:00: Will We Look Back And Laugh? 45:01 – 49:14: Education Facebook: Facebook.com/RealTalkHQ Twitter: @RealTalkBTS @RoeiDans @ScottWiseRT Instagram: @RealMediaHQ @RoeiDans @BeardMonster101

David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of The Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the former Executive Editor of the Jerusalem Post and was diplomatic correspondent for Israel's leading daily Haaretz. Ghaith al-Omari is Advocacy Director at the American Task Force on Palestine. Prior to that, he served in various positions within the Palestinian Authority, including Director of the International Relations Department in the Office of the Palestinian President, and advisor to former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas.