Channel: Politics

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-World Politics Review contributor Liam Cochrane talks to C.P. Gajurel, a high-level member of the central committee secretariat of Nepals Maoists. Gajurel, who specializes in foreign affairs, is a long-time member of the Maoist movement that, due to a surprise April 2008 election victory, is now faced with governing the country.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-World Politics contributor Vera Haller talks with Georgette Gagnon, executive director of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch, about the situation in Zimbabwe in the wake of March 29 elections and in the runup to a scheduled Jun 27 runoff.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-Humanitarian groups are urging donor countries to send food aid to North Korea immediately. They say the impoverished state is in danger of falling into famine once again. Jason Strother talks to Erica Kang of the Seoul-based NGO Good Friends about the situation.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-Blake Lambert interviews Tamila Karpyk, a doctoral student who represented Canada at a Young Atlantists forum at the recent NATO Summit in Bucharest, Romania, about what she learned at the summit.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-As the Kenyan opposition and government appear to have reached an agreement to rewrite the countrys constitution, World Politics Review Contributing Editor Blake Lambert interviews Dr. Tobias Karakach, a Kenyan research scientist living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, about the situation in his home country.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-As the new year dawned on Jan. 1, the North Korean government missed a deadline for dismantling a nuclear facility and for declaring nuclear materials. The deadline had been agreed as part of the six-party talks that include the United States, China, Japan, Russia, and North and South Korea. WPR contributor Jason Strother recently speaks to Daniel Pinkston of the International Crisis Group about the significance of the latest setback in the process.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-Sudans coalition government lies in ruin. The former rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement yanked its ministers out of the government on Oct. 11. It originally joined its former foes in Khartoum after the two sides signed a comprehensive peace agreement in 2005. The Sudanese diaspora is worried about this turn of events. Asha Arabis mother is from the south and her father is from the north. Shes now a graduate student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and she spoke to WPR Contributor Blake Lambert about her countrys crisis.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-WPR Contributor Kelly Hearn Talks to Evan Ellis, an expert on Chinese investment and trade in Latin America. Ellis is an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and an adjunct professor at the University of Miami. What are Chinas interests in Latin America, and should the United States be worried about increasing Chinese influence in its back yard? Ellis analyzes all the issues at stake in detail, and gives a comprehensive view in particular of Chinese investment in Latin American energy.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-In cooperation with the Hudson Institute, we look at Indian democracy. On Sept. 5, 2007, Aftab Seth, former Indian ambassador to Japan, Vietnam and Greece, spoke at the Hudson Institute in Washington. Seth discussed the role Indias democratic example can play in Asia.

An occasional podcast from the editors of World Politics Review, a daily publication featuring news and commentary on foreign policy, national security and international affairs.-Chinese dissident Wang Juntao, one of the figures charged by the Chinese government with helping to orchestrate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, talks with WPR contributor Kelly Hearn about China.