Podcasts
Episode 52: Art and International Cooperation: The Bridges Cleveland Helps Build
Panelists included André Gremillet, President and CEO of The Cleveland Orchestra; Heather Lemonedes Brown, Chief Curator of The Cleveland Museum of Art; Yaron Kohlberg, President of Piano Cleveland; and international…
Read MoreEpisode 51: The Indo-Pacific “Quad:” Key Concepts and Prospects for the Region
Guest: Tanvi Madan, Director of The India Project at Brookings Institution. On February 8, 2022, we explored the relatively new Indo-Pacific quadrilateral coalition of Japan, Australia, the U.S. and India…
Read MoreEpisode 50: The 2022 Global Economic Outlook
Guest: Michael Weidokal, Founder and Executive Director of International Strategic Analysis, a company providing country intelligence, economic forecasting and international market studies for many of the world’s leading companies. On…
Read MoreEpisode 49: The United States and an Evolving Europe: Transatlantic Ties 2021-2022
Guest: Rachel Ellehuus On November 16, 2021, Deputy Director for the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, offered her insights into the current…
Read MoreEpisode 48: The United Nations in a Changing World
Guest: Stéphane Dujarric On October 19, 2021, the Cleveland Council on World Affairs hosted Stéphane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General, to talk about the role of the…
Read MoreEpisode 47: The Global Impact Award 2021
Guest: Dr. Robert M. Gates The 2021 Global Impact Award honored Dr. Robert M. Gates, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, for his distinguished career in national security. Dr. Gates delivered…
Read MoreEpisode 46: Women and War: The Women Who Took on ISIS – and Won
Guest: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon During this Foreign Policy Forum, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discussed The Daughters of Kobani, which tells the story of an unlikely fight in northeastern Syria in 2014,…
Read MoreEpisode 45: Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Climate Change?
Guest: Molly Williamson Climate change is one area where politics, economics, and science come together to create an all-encompassing challenge that must be met by leaders worldwide. Unfortunately, it is…
Read MoreEpisode 44: The United States and Iran: What Will the Next Four Years Hold?
Guest: Kelsey Davenport and Paul Pillar The U.S.-Iran relationship is one the most pressing foreign policy challenges the Biden Administration will navigate in the coming years. CCWA was joined by…
Read MoreEpisode 43: Global Economic Outlook 2021
Guest: Nicolas Véron At the start of the new year, Nicolas Véron, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, spoke at CCWA’s inaugural Dr. Raj and Karen…
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