Foreign Exchanges: the Podcast

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Latin America scholar Thomas C. Field Jr. joins me to discuss the last six o…

Returning guest Alex Thurston joins the show to discuss COVID-19 in the Sahel, how the region's militant groups have responded to the pandemic, and recent militant and military activity in Nigeria, C…

I'm joined by Andrew Fishman, reporter for The Intercept and managing editor for The Intercept Brasil, to discuss the ongoing soap opera that is Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's haggard response …

I'm joined by Michael Brooks, returning champion and host of The Michael Brooks Show as well as co-host of The Majority Report with Sam Seder and Jacobin's Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Michael Bro…

I’m joined by returning guest David Adler of the Democracy in Europe Movement to discuss how Europe has risen—or failed to rise—to the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. David offers his thoug…

I’m joined by historian and podcaster Patrick Wyman, whose “The Fall of Rome” and “Tides of History” are two of the very best historical podcasts out there, to discuss pandemic diseases in Roman hist…

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I’m joined by defense technology journalist Kelsey Atherton to talk about wa…

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I’m joined by John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy in Focus (fpif.org) at…

David Adler of the Democracy in Europe Movement and the University of Washington’s Daniel Bessner join me to discuss the US dollar’s global influence and how that it with the more overtly military as…

Returning guest Alex Thurston discusses the recent dust up between the leaders of the G5 Sahel nations and French President Emmanuel Macron, then guides us through an introduction to Mauritania and i…

Fatemeh Aman, a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and expert analyst on Iran and South Asia, joins me to discuss the effects that the assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the shooting down…

In today’s episode I’m joined by journalist Branko Marcetic to discuss his new piece at In These Times looking at the transformation of Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American…

I’m joined by defense technology journalist Kelsey Atherton of C4ISRNET to discuss several recent stories related to technology in the military, from the alleged need for a fully autonomous nuclear d…

I welcome back Ryan Cooper (@ryanlcooper), national correspondent for The Week magazine and co-host of the exciting new Left Anchor podcast (you can also check them out on Twitter). Ryan wrote a piec…

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I’m joined by Stephen Wertheim (@stephenwertheim on T…

I’m very pleased to welcome Andrew Fishman (@AndrewDFish), managing editor for the Intercept Brasil. He’s here to guide us through the bombshell reporting the Intercept is currently doing on the scan…

I’m very grateful to be joined in this episode by Darren Byler, lecturer in anthropology at the University of Washington. Darren’s research focuses on art and culture in Xinjiang and he’s done consid…

I’m joined by Australia’s own Matt Brady to discuss Saturday’s election and the sordid cast of characters involved in its decidedly unexpected outcome. We look at what happened to the Labor Party and…

I'm joined for either the first or third time by Alex Thurston from Miami University of Ohio to talk about inter-communal violence in Mali, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso, as well as an update on the Boko…

Hey folks. This is just a short introductory message to welcome you here to Substack and explain a bit about how the podcast end of things is going to work. Mostly it’s an excuse for me to test out S…