Brookings Podcast Network Geography Bee

The shows in the Brookings Podcast Network present the best in public policy-related interviews with and analysis from leading scholars across a range of issues. As so many of the episodes illuminate specific countries and geographic regions, we thought it would be interesting to catalogue and list them for you for easy reference. They span the years 2013 to the present but you’ll have plenty of time to listen before the National Geographic Bee in May.

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Sub-Saharan Africa

• Africa in 2017: Innovation, employment, and governance, with Amadou Sy and Witney Schneidman
• U.S. business in Africa, with Amadou Sy
• Made in Africa: manufacturing and economic growth on the continent, with John Page
• Time for Measured Optimism on Africa, with Amadou Sy

EUROPE & RUSSIA

• Is Russia a threat?, with Steven Pifer
• Arms Control, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union, with Steven Pifer
• Ukraine’s struggle for independence, with Chrystia Freeland
• Ukraine’s long Russian entanglement, with Marvin Kalb
• The rise of the right: Right-wing populism in the U.S. and Europe, with E.J. Dionne and Constanze Stelzenmüller
• What Brexit means for Britain and the EU, with Fiona Hill
• Why the European Union matters, with Javier Solana
• Democracy in Turkey: Before and after the coup, with Kemal Kirişci and Ted Piccone
• Coup attempt in Turkey, with Kemal Kirişci
• On democracy after the Turkish referendum, with Kemal Kirişci

MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA

• U.S. politics and the Middle East: Polarization and regional stability, with Shibley Telhami and Sarah Yerkes
• Civil wars and U.S. engagement in the Middle East, with Kenneth Pollack and Shadi Hamid
• Will we ever have peace? A discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with Natan Sachs and Khaled Elgindy
• Syrian refugees and Western inaction, with Robert McKenzie and Leon Wieseltier
• The plight of Syrian refugees, with Kemal Kirişci
• The Arab world should employ more women, with Bessma Momani
• A Bleak Picture for Children’s Education in the Arab World, with Hafez Ghanem and Liesbet Steer
• Education challenges in the Arab world, with Maysa Jalbout
• Islamists, Democracy, and the Roots of Middle East Violence, with Shadi Hamid
• On ISIS, Syria, Iran, and President Obama’s Middle East Strategy, with Michael Doran
• U.S.-Iran relations, the Iran nuclear deal, and the future of Iran, with Suzanne Maloney
• Jihadist terrorism, Islamic State, and the war in Yemen, with Bruce Riedel
• On the Yemen raid and counter-terrorism strategy, with Daniel Byman

ASIA & SOUTH ASIA

• North and South Korea: Pride, prejudice, and unification challenges, with Katharine Moon
• On the missile crisis in East Asia, with Jonathan Pollack
• Hong Kong’s elections: Testing democratic reform in China, with Richard Bush and Cheng Li
• Hong Kong, China, and the Umbrella Movement, with Richard Bush
• On Trump’s meeting with President Xi Jinping, with Richard Bush
• On U.S.-China trade policy, with Eswar Prasad
• Burma/Myanmar and Aung San Suu Kyi, with Lex Rieffel
• The Pakistan challenge, with Bruce Riedel
• India on the international stage, with Dhruva Jaishankar, Tanvi Madan, and Shivshankar Menon
• India’s foreign policy, with Shivshankar Menon

LATIN AMERICA

• Cuba’s economic future, with Richard Feinberg and Ted Piccone
• The U.S.-Cuba thaw, with Richard Feinberg
• U.S.-Mexico relations: Beyond “America first” rhetoric, with Dany Bahar and Vanda Felbab-Brown
• Brazil on the global stage, with Harold Trinkunas and David Mares
• Latin America: Grand Vision of a Shared Future, with Ernesto Talvi
• What You Should Know about the Rise of Brazil and the Rest of Latin America, with Harold Trinkunas

THE ARCTIC

• Governing a Changing Arctic, with John Harris