Colin Powell Center Podcasts
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The Colin Powell Center hosts distinguished guests speakers on topics of pressing public concern and on issues of leadership and public service. The conversations are designed to deepen linkages between Center fellows' academic interests and the world of policy making and public service.
Peter R. Orszag (77:55)
Peter R. Orszag, former budget director for President Obama, is a noted economist who has served as director of the Congressional Budget Office. Now vice chairman for global banking at Citigroup, Orszag discusses economic issues with Center fellows.
5/10/11
Ambassador Young-Mok Kim (48:02)
Ambassador Young-Mok Kim, consul general of the Republic of Korea, a distinguished diplomat who has held numerous top security and energy-related positions and ambassadorships to countries such as Iran, discusses Korean issues with Center fellows.
4/06/11
Deanna Zandt (12:32)
Deanna Zandt, media technologist and author of
Share This! How You Will Change the World Through Social Media, opens the 2011 New York Life Symposium with a powerful analysis of the ways people and our new digital world can come together to create meaningful change.
3/16/11
Panel Discussion: The Power and Pitfalls fo Digital Activism (42:34) Christopher D. Cathcart, founder, OneDiaspora Group; Hillary A. Doe, national director, Roosevelt Institute Campus Network, and Betty Yu, media action grassroots network coordinator, Center for Media Justice, share their insights during the panel discussion: The Power and Pitfalls of Digital Activism. Fellow Brian Paragas moderates.
3/16/11
Majora Carter (32:49)
Majora Carter, MacArthur "genius" award-winner and founder of Sustainable South Bronx, shares a powerful look at how she combined commitment, on-the-ground organizing, and digital tools to launch and extend a movement dedicated to bringing green jobs and environmental justice to under-resourced neighborhood.
3/16/11
Harold M. Evans (56:40)
Sir Harold Evans, distinguished journalist and publisher, illuminates the often seemingly opaque process of innovation during a discussion with Center fellows. Evans, a Colin Powell Center advisory council member, draws from his nonfiction work They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine, which PBS has made into a four-part series. 10/4/10
James A. Baker (50:39)
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker, a Colin Powell Center advisory council member, shares his insights on a range of international and political issues. Topics include U.S. policy toward Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan; America’s standing in the world vis a vis China; and the current political debate over tax cuts.
9/24/10
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council on foreign relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), an independent, nonpartisan membership organization and think tank, hosts educational teleconferences and other special events for its educational partners, including the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies.
The Role of Women in Economic and Political Development (58:12)
Isobel Coleman, CFR senior fellow and director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at CRF and author of Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Changing the Middle East (2010), discusses the rise of women in a professional and public capacity in the Middle East. 11/10/10
Crisis Guide: Pakistan Discussion (88:51)
Powell Center fellows engage with CFR fellows and other experts for an interactive discussion based on CFR's Crisis Guide to Pakistan, which analyzes critical situations in Pakistan. Panelists include Mahnaz Ispahani, former senior fellow for South and West Asia, CFR; Daniel Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, CFR; Robert McMahon, editor, CFR.org; and David Rohde, reporter, The New York Times. 10/15/10
More Money than God... (56:09)
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FR's Sebastian Mallaby, director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics
, discusses the inner workings of hedge funds, as well as the effects of the new federal regulatory laws. Mallaby's most recent work is More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite.10/28/10
U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula (62:00)
Scott A. Snyder, CFR's adjunct senior fellow for Korea studies, discusses the recent CFR-sponsored Task Force Report on "U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula," which he directed. Snyder, author of China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Economics, Politics, Security, is a frequent commentator on Asian security issues with a focus on the Korean peninsula. The discusssion incorporates CRF's Crisis Guide: The Korean Peninsula. 10/13/10
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