Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
Interview / I talk to the journalist Thomas de Waal about his account of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. In 1988 the unthinkable...
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Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus
Interview / I talk to the journalist Thomas de Waal about his book on the first Chechen war. The book, coauthored with de Waal’s former...
Free Expression in the Age of Security Threats
Interview / I talk to Dunja Mijatović, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the...
From Stanford to Spaso House: In Conversation with Michael McFaul
Interview / I talk to Michael McFaul, ambassador to Russia during the Obama Administration. In January 2009, Michael McFaul, a renowned...
How Past Informs Present: an Interview with Stephen Sestanovich
Interview / I talk to Stephen Sestanovich, ambassador-at-large for the former Soviet Union and special adviser to Secretary of State...
Leningrad, Queens, Columbia: Gary Shteyngart's Little Failure
Interview / I talk to author Gary Shteyngart about his memoir, Little Failure. Gary Shteyngart, the award-winning author of three...
In Conversation with Sergei Guriev
Interview / I talk to the prominent Russian economist and public intellectual Sergei Guriev. In late April 2013, members of the...
Great Games, Local Rules and the Shifting Dynamics of a Multipolar World
Interview / I talk to the political scientist Alexander Cooley about his book Great Games, Local Rules. The title Great Games, Local...
In Conversation with Joan Acocella
Interview / I talk to the New Yorker’s dance and book critic, Joan Acocella, about writing, editing, and the political constraints of...
From the Assassination of Sadat to the Birth of Brooklyn's Empire
Interview / I talk to Steve Hindy, a former AP war correspondent who founded the Brooklyn Brewery. “In so many ways, the Brooklyn Brewery...
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