Ranked #1
Avril Haines on Being the First Woman No. 2 at the CIA, North Korea, and Living the Hipster Dream
Avril Haines on Being the First Woman No. 2 at the CIA, North Korea, and Living the Hipster Dream
Avril Haines, former CIA Deputy Director and former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Obama, chats with Aroo... Read more
2 Oct 2017
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19mins
Ranked #2
Jake Sullivan on the Secret 2015 Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Staying Sharp on a Demanding Travel Schedule
Jake Sullivan on the Secret 2015 Iran Nuclear Negotiations, Staying Sharp on a Demanding Travel Schedule
Jake Sulllivan, former Director of the Policy Planning Office at the U.S. State Department and former National Security ... Read more
1 Nov 2017
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22mins
Ranked #3
James K. Sebenius on Kissinger the Negotiator, Negotiating Tactics, and Trump the Negotiator
James K. Sebenius on Kissinger the Negotiator, Negotiating Tactics, and Trump the Negotiator
James K. Sebenius, the Gordon Donaldson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author (with... Read more
4 Sep 2018
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44mins
Ranked #4
Graham Allison on U.S.-China, War, Thucydides, and Corgis
Graham Allison on U.S.-China, War, Thucydides, and Corgis
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Graham Allison (@GrahamTAllison) takes a moment to talk with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukh... Read more
30 Jun 2017
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24mins
Ranked #5
Kendall Hoyt on Bio Defense, Outbreaks, and Anti-Vaxxers
Kendall Hoyt on Bio Defense, Outbreaks, and Anti-Vaxxers
Kendall Hoyt, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School and former fellow with the Belfer Center’s... Read more
2 Apr 2018
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23mins
Ranked #6
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook on U.S.-Europe Relations, Language Influencing Policy, and Dual Citizenship
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook on U.S.-Europe Relations, Language Influencing Policy, and Dual Citizenship
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook (@Cluverc), Executive Director of the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project and the newly ... Read more
1 Aug 2018
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37mins
Ranked #7
Halla Logadóttir on the Future of the Arctic Region, Sustainability in Iceland, and Icelandic Names
Halla Logadóttir on the Future of the Arctic Region, Sustainability in Iceland, and Icelandic Names
Halla Logadóttir, former director of the Iceland School of Energy at Reykjavík University and co-founder of the Belfer C... Read more
2 Jul 2018
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29mins
Ranked #8
James Clapper on His Book “Facts and Fears,” Defending the Intelligence Community, and Comic Books
James Clapper on His Book “Facts and Fears,” Defending the Intelligence Community, and Comic Books
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence and a Senior Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Intelligence Projec... Read more
10 Dec 2018
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30mins
Ranked #9
Calder Walton on the History of Intelligence, Russian Espionage, and His Favorite Secret
Calder Walton on the History of Intelligence, Russian Espionage, and His Favorite Secret
Calder Walton (@calder_walton), the author of Empire of Secrets: British intelligence, the Cold War, and the Twilight of... Read more
3 Oct 2018
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26mins
Ranked #10
Robby Mook on the Lessons from the 2016 Campaign, The Defending Digital Democracy Project, and Dark Chocolate
Robby Mook on the Lessons from the 2016 Campaign, The Defending Digital Democracy Project, and Dark Chocolate
Robby Mook (@RobbyMook), Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Campaign Manager and a Belfer Center Senior Fellow, sits down with with ... Read more
5 Nov 2018
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32mins
Ranked #11
Radosław Sikorski on the Rise of Right-wing Nationalism, Russia, and Gastrodiplomacy
Radosław Sikorski on the Rise of Right-wing Nationalism, Russia, and Gastrodiplomacy
Radosław Sikorski (@sikorskiradek), former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister of Poland and a Fisher Family Fellow wi... Read more
1 Jun 2018
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21mins
Ranked #12
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on the DOE’s National Laboratories, Clean Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, and Her Favorite Energy Bar
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall on the DOE’s National Laboratories, Clean Energy, the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, and Her Favorite Energy Bar
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (@LSRTweets), former Deputy Secretary of Energy and Belfer Center Senior Fellow, talks with A... Read more
1 Feb 2018
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29mins
Ranked #13
Meghan O’Sullivan on Fracking, Climate Change, Tight Oil, and Her Early Career Start
Meghan O’Sullivan on Fracking, Climate Change, Tight Oil, and Her Early Career Start
Meghan O’Sullivan, Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School an... Read more
1 Sep 2017
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31mins
Ranked #14
Chuck Freilich on the Israeli National Security, U.S. Retrenchment from the Middle East and Making Aliyah
Chuck Freilich on the Israeli National Security, U.S. Retrenchment from the Middle East and Making Aliyah
Chuck Freilich, former Israeli Deputy National Security Adviser, Belfer Center Senior Fellow, and Author of “Israeli Nat... Read more
1 Mar 2018
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26mins
Ranked #15
Margaret Macmillan on Good History, Dead White Man Theory and Canadian vs. U.S. Donuts
Margaret Macmillan on Good History, Dead White Man Theory and Canadian vs. U.S. Donuts
Margaret Macmillan, Professor of History at the University of Toronto and affiliate with the Belfer Center’s Applied His... Read more
3 May 2018
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24mins
Ranked #16
Ehud Barak on Israel, the U.S., Trump, and His Curiosity About Clocks
Ehud Barak on Israel, the U.S., Trump, and His Curiosity About Clocks
Former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak (@barak_ehud), the most decorated soldier in Israel’s history and a non-resid... Read more
1 May 2017
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23mins
Ranked #17
Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Technology, Being in the Cabinet, and the Usefulness of Medieval History
Ash Carter on Connecting Defense and Technology, Being in the Cabinet, and the Usefulness of Medieval History
Ash Carter, the 25th Secretary of Defense and the Director of the Belfer Center, talks with Aroop Mukharji (@aroopmukhar... Read more
3 Jan 2018
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20mins
Ranked #18
Mike Rogers on Leaks, the Russian Ambassador, and What Causes the Divide in Congress
Mike Rogers on Leaks, the Russian Ambassador, and What Causes the Divide in Congress
Former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers (@RepMikeRogers), the U.S. Representative for the 8th distr... Read more
1 Jun 2017
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24mins
Ranked #19
Vera Mironova on ISIS’s Drinking Problem, Embedding in Conflict Zones, and the Job Market for Insurgents
Vera Mironova on ISIS’s Drinking Problem, Embedding in Conflict Zones, and the Job Market for Insurgents
Vera Mironova (@vera_mironov), an Associate with the Belfer Center’s International Security Program, talks with Aroop Mu... Read more
1 Dec 2017
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25mins
Ranked #20
Ban Ki-moon on Trump, Climate Change, the UN, and His Favorite Foods
Ban Ki-moon on Trump, Climate Change, the UN, and His Favorite Foods
Ban Ki-moon, the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations (2007–2016), takes a moment to talk with Aroop Mukharji (@a... Read more
2 Aug 2017
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22mins