This Week in the World with Jaden Jefferson
Geopolitics, climate change, challenges to the future of liberal democracy, and how a changing world order intersects with a changing global economy. Each week, host Jaden Jefferson discusses them all — alongside expert voices in international relations, history, science, and economics — for insight into where our world is now, as well as its future.
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Dr. Ronald Suny is a renowned professor emeritus, of both history and political science, at the University of Michigan and University of Chicago. He joins This Week in the World to discuss the Russia-Ukraine war's current impacts — and its long-term implications.
Today on This Week in the World: Dissecting President Trump's formal address regarding the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran — over a month after it began — plus, an update on Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
The Strait of Hormuz, an artery in the global oil trade, is effectively closed by the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. This week in the world, an interview with Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, who provided his insight into the impact.
On 'This Week in the World,' an interview with Iranian-American scholar & democracy activist Kian Tajbakhsh, who — from 2009 to 2016 — was a political prisoner in Iran. He provides his perspective on the country's past, present, and possible future.
Two weeks since U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran began — marking the start of a new Middle East war — this week in the world, I'm sitting down with Dr. Camron Amin, professor of Middle East and Iranian diaspora studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
The Trump administration has significantly scaled back the federal government's response to climate change. So what does that mean — not only for the U.S. — but countries around the globe? This week in the world, a conversation with Julie McNamara from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Since 1960, a trade embargo has been in place between the U.S. and Cuba. And as of late last month, Cuba is also alienated from its only allies, due to a U.S.-imposed fuel blockade.
So, as Cuba's authoritarian government grows ever more vulnerable, what could the future hold?
This week in the world, Sebastián Arcos – interim director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University – offers his perspective.
On the inaugural edition of This Week in the World: Katherine Jacobsen, from the Committee to Protect Journalists, discusses global threats to press freedom. Ian Kelly, former U.S. ambassador to Georgia, shares his thoughts on Europe's self-defense abilities. And, a new hiccup in the U.S.-Canada relationship.
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