The Brookings Cafeteria
From 2013–2022, the Brookings Cafeteria podcast presented experts, ideas, and solutions across a range of policy topics. You can listen to past episodes at brookings.edu/BCP. The Brookings Podcast Network produces other policy-oriented shows that may interest you. Learn more at brookings.edu/podcasts. Follow on Twitter @policypodcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 432
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2022
Global China’s ambitions across East Asia
In this special edition of the Brookings Cafeteria, Lindsey Ford interviews a trio of Brookings experts on new papers from the Global China Project that focus on China's engagements with neighbors in…
00:55:39 |
Tue 03 Dec 2019
How universities can help tackle global challenges
The world faces a range of challenges, including increasing numbers of refugees, income inequality, loss of fertile land leading to rising hunger, and climate change. Governments and global instituti…
00:26:09 |
Fri 29 Nov 2019
What it means to impeach a president
Senior Fellow Elaine Kamarck helps make sense of the impeachment inquiry around President Donald Trump's actions regarding Ukraine in the context of impeachment’s history—from its inclusion in the US…
00:28:56 |
Fri 22 Nov 2019
The biggest health care issues of the 2020 election
Polls show that health care is one of the top issues American voters care about, but ideas about controlling costs and expanding coverage are divided along partisan lines. This episode features a dee…
00:34:49 |
Fri 15 Nov 2019
Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later
On November 9, 1989, the government of East Germany announced that all of its citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of Germans from east and west climbed onto the heavily fortifie…
00:29:21 |
Fri 08 Nov 2019
Beirut 1958: America's first Middle East intervention
In July 1958, U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of Beirut, Lebanon, ready for combat in the midst of an escalating sectarian crisis in the country. But they were greeted by sunbathers and vendors sell…
00:25:17 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
Brexit and the new plan for Northern Ireland
Brexit—the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, has been scheduled to occur on October 31. But will it still happen? As events continue to evolve in Britain and in the European Un…
00:34:18 |
Fri 25 Oct 2019
Policy 2020, your guide to the presidential election
Senior Fellow interviews Senior Fellows and about the new project and resource at Brookings. Policy 2020 empowers voters with fact-based, data-driven, non-partisan information to better understan…
00:44:03 |
Fri 18 Oct 2019
Learning across a girl’s lifetime
How can girls, especially in developing countries, get the education that will prepare them with skills needed for lifelong success? On this episode, , fellow in the Global Economy and Development pr…
00:57:01 |
Fri 11 Oct 2019
Global China’s plan for overseas military bases
This is the fifth of five special episodes in a takeover of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast by the at Brookings, a multi-year endeavor drawing on expertise from across the Institution. In this serie…
00:30:39 |
Fri 04 Oct 2019
Deterring military conflict with a global China
This is the fourth of five special episodes in a takeover of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast by the at Brookings, a multi-year endeavor drawing on expertise from across the Institution. In this seri…
00:35:18 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
Domestic politics in the rise of global China
This is the third of five special episodes in a takeover of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast by the at Brookings, a multi-year endeavor drawing on expertise from across the Institution. In this serie…
00:28:12 |
Wed 02 Oct 2019
How might a global China use economic sanctions?
This is the second of five special episodes in a takeover of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast by the at Brookings, a multi-year endeavor drawing on expertise across the organization. In this series, …
00:30:13 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
What does a global China mean for the US and the world?
This is the first of five special episodes in a takeover of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast by the at Brookings, a multi-year endeavor drawing on expertise across Brookings. The project aims to unde…
00:26:51 |
Mon 30 Sep 2019
And now the hard part: Resetting the US Relationship with Saudi Arabia
This week, the first episode in a special podcast produced jointly by Foreign Policy and the Brookings Institution. On each episode of “,” host Johnathan Tepperman, FP’s editor in chief, and a Brooki…
00:31:47 |
Fri 27 Sep 2019
A global response to the climate crisis
The United Nations Climate Action Summit takes place during the UN General Assembly meetings in New York this month. Two guests are on this episode to discuss the event and the global response to the…
00:31:58 |
Fri 20 Sep 2019
Addressing the global learning crisis
According to data released in 2018, only 12 percent of children tested in 7 low- or middle-income countries met minimum proficiency for math, and 23 percent for reading. This compares to 77 percent a…
00:38:02 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
US-China competition in global development
This is the second in a two-part series of episodes from the Brookings-Blum Roundtable, an annual forum for global leaders, entrepreneurs, and policy practitioners to discuss innovative ideas and to …
00:31:53 |
Fri 06 Sep 2019
Will foreign aid matter in the 2020 election?
Will foreign assistance and foreign policy matter to voters in the 2020 elections? At the 16th Annual Brookings-Blum Roundtable, Merrell Tuck-Primdahl--communications director of Global Economy and D…
00:31:38 |
Fri 30 Aug 2019
Colombia’s search for peace and justice
In June 2016, the government of Colombia signed a historic peace agreement with the armed rebel group known as FARC-EP to end a conflict that over five decades had taken the lives of at least 260,000…
00:52:29 |
Fri 23 Aug 2019
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