The Fletcher Forum Podcast
Founded in 1975 and published biannually, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs is the student-managed foreign policy journal at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The publication provides a broad, interdisciplinary platform for analysis of legal, political, economic, environmental, and diplomatic issues in international affairs. The Fletcher Forum podcast will serve as another avenue for The Fletcher Forum and will feature interviews, roundtable discussions, and debates centered around the latest in international affairs.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
The Growth of Chinese Digital Norms
Michael Caster, Head of Global China Programme at ARTICLE 19, joins the podcast to discuss the growth of Chinese norms in digital governance and cybersecurity.
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Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
The civil war in Sierra Leone ended more than two decades ago, but that’s no reason for Theresa Betancourt and Moses Zombo to turn their eyes away. In this episode, we speak about their decades of …
Children Born of War
Today, Marlene is joined by Emily Prey (F20), a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy. Her research focuses on women and children in crisis and conflict situ…
Forum 50 Series: Founding the Forum: Shashi Tharoor
In our final installment of the 50th edition miniseries, the Forum traveled to India to interview one of the Fletcher Forum's founding editors: Dr. Shashi Tharoor. Dr. Tharoor, along with Dr. Jeff Sh…
Forum 50 Series: Kelly Sims Gallagher
For our third episode, the Forum sits down with Dean Gallagher to discuss the role of the Forum at Fletcher and the administration's forthcoming strategic plan. As the Forum has evolved, Fletcher has…
Forum 50 Series: The Podcast Founders. 2016-2024, founding new media, and Fletcher across decades
Alex is joined by Maria Selde, Colin Steele, and Pulkit Aggrwal, three of the five members of the 2017/2018 Forum Executive Board who founded the Podcast, for an informal conversation recollecting on…
Forum 50 Series: Alan Henrikson. Free-range faculty advisement and Space Politics
Fletcher historians rejioice! We're joined this episode by Lee E. Dirks Professor Emeritus of Diplomatic History, Alan Henrikson. Professor Henrikson was named (he would say volun-told) the first fac…
Energy in Trump 2: International Response to the Vaccuum of US Climate Leadership
In this episode of the Fletcher Forum Podcast, host KP sits down with Professor Nigel Purvis - veteran climate diplomat and CEO of Climate Advisers, to explore the future of global climate action.…
Decoding COP-16
In this episode of The Fletcher Forum Podcast, we dive into the key takeaways from COP-16 in Cali, Colombia with biodiversity governance expert Professor Charles C. Chester. From the groundbreaking C…
World Peace Domestic and Abroad
Following up on our episode last week, we're in conversation with Dr. Bridget Conley, the Research Director at the World Peace Foundation. Dr. Conley currently works on analyzing the impacts of mass …
R2P for Me but not for Thee
Loing before the big power conflicts of the 2020s, many international relations theorists were focused on how to use international law as a framework for intervention to protect human rights and huma…
Surveying DeepSeek and the Future of AI: Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics?
In our latest podcast, the Fletcher Forum dives into the multifaceted world of DeepSeek the AI firm challenging Open AI. We're joined by Pf. Thomas Cao, an Assistant Professor of Technology Policy at…
Confronting China in the long term
Chinese studies are a mainstay in all realms of international relations, especially in the United States. Today's guest, Dr. Daniel Green, offers his thoughts of how future US administrations could a…
How do you revive a river that disappeared?
Fletcher Focus: Discussing the 10th Conference on Gender in International Affairs
Annie Levy and Rebecca Kelly are two of the Co-Chairs for Fletcher's 2024 Conference on Gender in International Affairs. CGIA 2024 exists to create a collaborative environment in which international …
How can we all trade in 2024?: The Remaking Trade Project
Pf. Joel Trachtman joins the Fletcher Forum Podcast to discuss his work on the Remaking Trade Project. The project aims to reimagine international trade policy for the 21st century and outline how it…
U.S. Elections from an Observer's Perspective
Dr. Vivek Mishra joins the Fletcher Forum Podcast to discuss the upcoming US Presidential Election. Dr. Mishra is the Deputy Director of the Observer Research Foundation's Strategic Studies Programme…
Fletcher Focus: Discussing the 6th Decolonizing International Relations Conference
In this episode, we’re in conversation with Ellie Johnson and Abdullah Alharoun, Chairperson and Content Chair of this year’s Decolonising International Relations Conference, scheduled to take place …
Doing Development: A conversation with the 2024 D-Prize Winners
This week we're featuring a conversation with Maggie Adomako and Richard Geegbae, two of the three members of the 2024 Fletcher D-Prize winning Ongeza Zao Na Pato (OZP) team. OZP is bringing farmers …
Fletcher Focus: A Conference on The Global Repercussions of Russia-West Economic Warfare
Our inaugural 2024-2025 episode features members of Fletcher's Russia and Eurasia Program discussing the upcoming conference on Russian sanctions and the broader economic impacts of economic warfare …