Podcasts for the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

Dr. Richard Downie, Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Pacific Council on International Policy; Kristin Ghazarians, Associate Director of the Human Rights Watch Student Task Force; Jim Newton, veteran journalist, author and teacher

Ambassador Eric Garcetti, 26th United States Ambassador to India and 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles

Ambassador Michael McFaul, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014) and Ken Oliver and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science at Stanford University

Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University and former chief economist, IMF

If power determines law, what does that mean for the rules-based international order?

Dorothy Kronick, Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Edmund Malesky, Professor of Political Economy at Duke University and Scientific Director of VinUniversity Green-X Research Center

H.E. Armen Sarkissian, Former President of the Republic of Armenia

Shaina Potts, Associate Professor, Geography and Global Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Eric Min, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Ronen Steinke, journalist, author, legal scholar, 2025 Thomas Mann Fellow

Edward Fishman, Sr. Research Scholar, Center Global Energy Policy andamp; Adj Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics andamp; Professor at MIT Sloan

Haviv Rettig Gur, Journalist and Senior Analyst at The Times of Israel

Mark Blyth, William R. Rhodes ’57 Prof International Economics andamp; Acting Director, Climate Solutions Lab

Fiona Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and Prof. Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Science, UCLA

Erin Lin, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

Joshua W. Busby, Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin

Jeffrey Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science, George Washington University

Edward Wong, diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rochelle Terman, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

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

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

Tejas Parasher, Assistant Professor of Political Theory, UCLA

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

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

Stuart Reid, executive editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine

Philippe Sands, Professor of Law at the University of London

Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland

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

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

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

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

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

A discussion with Garry Kasparov, Russian pro-democracy leader and former world chess champion

A book talk with Susan Shirk, Research Prof. and Chair, 21st Century China Center, UCSD

A book talk with Julia Morse, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Santa Barbara

A book talk with Kal Raustiala, Burkle Center Director and Prof. of Law, UCLA

A discussion with Zachariah Mampilly, Marxe Endowed Chair of International Affairs, CUNY

A book talk with Chris Miller, Assoc. Professor of International History, Fletcher School, Tufts University

Join us once again in person!

A book talk with Mark Schrad, Professor of Political Science, Villanova University