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The BackChannel
The BackChannel is a podcast of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) where scholars analyze contemporary geopolitical events through FPRI’s unique lens of history, geography, and culture. In each episode, FPRI Templeton Fellows Ron Granieri, Dominic Tierney, and Nada Bakos will welcome a guest expert to present a current geopolitical controversy, which they will then analyze together.
Resisting Magical Thinking: Drones and National Security
In the latest episode of FPRI’s Back Channel, Templeton Fellows Ron Granieri, Dominic Tierney, and Nada Bakos welcome special guest Loren DeJonge Schulman, Deputy Director of Studies and Leon E. Panetta Senior Fellow at the Center for a New...
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Friends into Foes, Foes into Friends? The Trump-Putin Summit in Geopolitical Perspective
In the latest episode of FPRI’s Back Channel, Host Ron Granieri welcomes Templeton Fellows Dominic Tierney and Nada Bakos along with special guests Trudy Rubin of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Chris Miller, Professor of Tufts University and the Director...
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Artificial Intelligence, Genuine Transformations: The Tech Revolution and the future of National Security
In the latest episode of FPRI’s new podcast, The BackChannel, host Ron Granieri welcomes Templeton Fellows Dominic Tierney and Nada Bakos along with special guest, FPRI Senior Fellow and Associate Director of Perry World House Michael Horowitz, to discuss...
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Israel, Palestine, and the USA: How Many States, How Many Partners?
In the latest episode of FPRI’s new podcast series, The BackChannel, host Ron Granieri welcomes Templeton Fellow Dominic Tierney, Director of FPRI’s Program on the Middle East Tally Helfont, and special guest FPRI Fox Fellow Joshua Krasna to...
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North Korea and the United States: Fire and Fury, or Friends for Now?
In this premiere episode of FPRI’s new podcast series, BackChannel, Host Ron Granieri welcomes Templeton Fellows Nada Bakos and Dominic Tierney and special guest Benjamin Silberstein to discuss US-North Korean relations. Following the FPRI tradition of analyzing contemporary geopolitics through...
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