Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
The longest running independent international affairs podcast features in-depth interviews with policymakers, journalists and experts around the world who discuss global news, international relations, global development and key trends driving world affairs.
Named by The Guardian as "a podcast to make you smarter," Global Dispatches is a podcast for people who crave a deeper understanding of international news.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 1080
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Episode 139: Bathsheba Crocker
Diplomacy runs in her family. Sheba Crocker and her father Chester Crocker are the first parent-child combination to have both served as assistant secretaries of state. Crocker-the-elder was a noted …
Is "Gross National Happiness" the New GDP?
Greetings from the World Government Summit in Dubai! This one of those big international conferences (think: World Economic Forum in Davos) that is hosted by the government of the United Arab Emirate…
Crimes Against Humanity in Burma are Ongoing (and terribly under-covered)
Crimes against humanity are ongoing in Burma and they are being committed by the state against the Rohingya people. This is a minority community in Burma that has historically faced intense discrimin…
Episode 138: Dr. Larry Brilliant
How the Middle East is Reacting to Trump's Travel Ban
Episode 137: Princeton Lyman
Princeton Lyman was a long serving US Diplomat who has become one of the leading experts on African politics and policy. He most recently served as President Obama's special envoy to Sudan and South …
Trump Just Re-Instated the "Global Gag Rule." Here's what that means.
On his third day on office President Trump signed a memorandum re-instating what is known as the "Global Gag Rule" or sometimes alternatively as the "Mexico City Policy." This is a policy that Republ…
Live from Chicago! Zalmay Khalilzad: former UN ambassador and GOP Foreign Policy Insider
What's Next for the Israel and Palestine?
The Two State Solution--the idea that a sovereign, secure and independent Palestine can co-exist with a sovereign secure and independent jewish state of Israel is arguably as far from being realized …
Episode 136: Karen Greenberg
Sponsored: Get a Master of Arts in Social Innovation from the University of San Diego
This is a special episode of the podcast sponsored by the Master of Arts in Social Innovation program at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego. This is a brand new p…
Turkey is in Crisis
Turkey is in crisis. A number of terrorist attacks in recent weeks has rattled Turkish society, there is a persistent and ongoing crackdown on civil society, and President Erdogan is engineering cons…
Episode 135: Maria J Stephan
Maria Stephan is a pioneering academic and public intellectual who studies authoritarian regimes and how they fall. She's the co-author with Erica Chenoweth of the groundbreaking and award winning bo…
Here are the big stories that will drive the global agenda in 2017
What Russia Wants
Russia has successfully influenced the election here in the United States in its favor. It's side is winning the war in Syria. Crimea looks like it will remain in Russia for the foreseeable future an…
Episode 133: Amy Costello
Amy Costello is a veteran reporter who now hosts the excellent Tiny Spark podcast that investigates what goes right and what goes wrong in philanthropy, including global philanthropy and the NGO sect…
Trump has Assembled a "Team of Generals." So What's the Problem?
Episode 132: Cameron Munter
Conditions are ripe for a genocide in South Sudan
Episode 131: Mark Tokola
Mark Tokola is the vice president of the Korea Economic Institute of America. He's a long serving American diplomat with postings around the world and we discuss a few of them in this episode, includ…