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Scholars’ Circle – US role in South Caucasus Armenia...

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2025/08/24

Will the so-called peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan legitimize ethnic cleansing? Will it bring peace to the two nations? Or is it a recipe for future conflict?Military aggression and violations of the notion of sovereignty have marked the conflicts in the South Caucuses region over the last three decades. Will the peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan continue this trend or will it avert claims to sovereignty? This agreement brings the US directly into the South Caucuses

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Scholars’ Circle – Recognizing Palestine State would...

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2025/08/17

After nearly two years of a war on Gaza, some countries in the west have indicated that they intend to recognize Palestine as its own state. What would such recognition mean for the conflict and how can the war end? [ dur: 58mins. ]Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at Carlton University. She is the author of The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and co-editor (with Aaron J. Hahn Tapper) of Social

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Scholars’ Circle – Texas Re-districting ;...

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2025/08/10

First, will Donald Trump's and the republican party's efforts to redraw electoral maps give them a permanent majority? [ dur: 24mins. ] Jeremi Suri is Professor in the Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-author of “Problems with President Records are Not Just About Trump” with Kenneth Osgood. He is also the

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Scholars’ Circle – Corporation of Public Broadcasting...

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2025/08/05

Congress has now clawed back the funding it had allocated for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. What does this mean for the future of publicly funded broadcasting in the USA? How will it affect news, public affairs and other vital information delivery? We will explore the role of public broadcasting in a democracy. What role does money play at ensuring an independent media? What is the status of public funding and even government owned media throughout the democratic world? [ dur: 58mins. ]

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Scholars’ Circle – Private Military Corporations and...

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2025/07/29

Private Military Corporations have become a growing element of the warfighting landscape. States have historically had a monopoly on the use of military force. But private corporations challenge this monopoly. How much do they increase the lethality and likelihood of war? How much can private corporations be regulated? And what are the challenges to regulation? We explore the political, military, legal, and socioeconomic implications of private military corporations. [ dur: 58mins. ] Ori Swed is

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Scholars’ Circle – Safe drinking water delivery in US...

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2025/07/22

Although Access to safe drinking water is a human right, millions of people in the United States do no have access to safe water. Lead in the pipes is the most well-known cause but there are many others. What can be done to fix the nation's water delivery systems? What have we learned from the Flint case? [ dur: 34mins. ]Newsha Ajami is Chief Development Officer for Research at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She is the co-author of Building water

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Scholars’ Circle – Book Author interview – Melting...

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2025/07/18

The search for a safe haven for Jewish people in the early 20th Century led some Zionists to land on Galveston, Texas as a potential homeland for Jewish refugees. What was the Galveston Movement and what happened to it? We interviews the author of a new book MELTING POINT: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land.[ dur: 35mins. ]Rachel Cockerell is a writer and historian. Then, the search for minerals is leading some corporations to begin mining the ocean floor but scientists warn

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Scholars’ Circle – Supreme Court decisions: Federal...

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2025/07/18

The US Supreme Court has decided numerous cases and announced their opinions in the past week. On today's show we explore two cases. The Court declared an end to national injunctions in a case involving birthright citizenship. [ dur: 28mins. ] Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His many publications include, most recently, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted

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Scholars’ Circle – Aging & wars ; Peaceful use of...

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2025/07/02

Does the aging world population mean fewer wars in the future? What exactly is a geriatric peace?Our guest, Mark L. Haas, is the author of The Geriatric Peace - Population Aging and the Decline of War. [ dur: 30mins. ] Mark L. Haas is the Duquesne Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of many books including The Clash of Ideologies: Middle Eastern Politics and American Security. His newest book is The Geriatric Peace - Population Aging and the

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Scholars’ Circle – Israel and Iran War – June 22, 2025

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2025/06/26

We look at the history of conflict and outcome in the past to understand the attacks between Israel and Iran to control Nuclear capabilities of Iran. What is the humanitarian and political impact of this war? On both Iran and on Israel. What is the impact on the region? Is this war legal, based on the laws of war? Principle of JUS AD BELLUM. And how would American intervention on behalf of Israel escalate the war, and complicate the war. [ dur: 58mins. ]Note: This recording was made before US

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Scholars’ Circle – ICE and Militarization on the...

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2025/06/16

President Trump has ordered federalization of the California National Guard and deployed them to Los Angeles. He also has deployed active Marines in the city. Does this violate the law? What is the law of posse comitatus? What is its history? And will mass protests help preserve democracy? The law of Posse Comitatus needs reform to prevent abuse? In today's political environment, is this even possible? [ dur: 58mins. ]David S. Meyer is Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Planning,

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Scholars’ Circle – Pope Leo & Augustinian thought –...

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2025/06/09

What will it mean for Catholicism and the world to have the first Augustinian Pope? What were the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, who inspires the Order of Augustine? And what are Pope Leo's theological views for the Church and beyond as the Church confronts a world with poverty, violence, and war? [ dur: 58mins. ]Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, is the Associate Professor of Early Christian Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary; Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine's Thought,

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Scholars’ Circle – Author interview of the book – Can...

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2025/06/03

We interview Professor James S. Fishkin author of the recently published book - Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? . Then we remember Ngugi wa Thiongo , scholar of language and author many books such as Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986).First our discussion with Professor Fishkin on his book Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?. He shares his experience in conducting deliberative polling 150+ times around the world. Hosted by Doug

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Scholars’ Circle – Emolument Clause & Trump Qatar...

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2025/05/27

What exactly an emolument? Is the airplane gift from Qatar to President Trump an emolument? Is it evidence of corruption? And has the Supreme Court continued to enable corruption? Hosted by Doug Becker. [ dur: 26mins. ]Clark D. Cunningham is Lee Byrd's Chair in Law and Ethics at Georgia State University College of Law. He is the author of Using Empirical Data to Investigate the Original Meaning of Emoluments. In the Constitution, and has co-authored several amicus briefs on the Using Empirical

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Scholars’ Circle – Canadian election insights – May...

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2025/05/19

Canada's Liberals were facing a 20 point deficit a few months back but came back to maintain power by re-electing Liberal Prime Minister, Mark Carney. What does this mean for the country and its challenges this year and beyond? What are Canada's most pressing political challenges? Canadian politics are complex and experts argue their most recent election was not only a reaction to Donald Trump's remarks about the country. [ dur: 58mins. ]Terry Givens is Professor of Political Science at the

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Scholars’ Circle – First 100 days into the second ...

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2025/05/12

We are 100 days into the second Trump Administration. How different is this term from his first and from other Presidents? What are the constitutional and normative challenges it poses to American democracy? Just how much has Trump attempted to consolidate power in the Presidency? What are the biggest threats his administration poses to the constitution, the rule of law and to American democracy? [ dur: 58mins. ]Heidi Kitrosser is Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is

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Scholars’ Circle – Science denial and disinformation...

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2025/05/06

Science is under attack. Who and what are behind the attacks? While we face catastrophic climate change and other pending disasters, how can we restore the public’s understandings about scientific realities? We explore disinformation and ways to communicate with non-scientists to loosen the grip the disinformants have on so many people. [ dur: 58mins. ]Lee McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at

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Scholars’ Circle – Insights into Cambodian Genocide...

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2025/04/28

April is Genocide Awareness Month, and no genocide was more devastating, more destructive and more emblematic of the demand for never again like the Cambodian Genocide. Often referring to as the “Killing Fields” after the moving Dith Pran novel and movie of the same name, 2 million people out of a pre-genocide population of 7 million were killed by the Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia between the years 1975 and 1979. The importance of the remembrance of the genocide lies in remembering its

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Scholars’ Circle – Armenia – Azerbaijan treaty update...

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2025/04/28

Recent peace treaty communication coming from Armenia and Azerbaijan explained. Robert English is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals and the End of the Cold War and The Other Side: How Soviets and Americans Perceive Each Other. Talin Hitik is an international human rights advocate focused on seeking accountability for war crimes and human rights violations. She also

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Scholars’ Circle – Origins of war and ways to resolve...

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2025/04/14

With wars still raging in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, we return to an earlier interview on the origins of war. When and how did war begin?While some have argued it evolved in early human behavior within forging bands societies, our guests say, that's not true. Forger bands did not wage war. [ dur: 30 mins. ] Douglas P. Fry is Professor and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Beyond War, The Human Potential

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