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Global Connections Television Podcast
Global Connections Television (GCTV), the only talk show of its type in the world, has featured a myriad of guests ranging from leaders at the UN to the private sector to academics to non-governmental organizations.
Episodes
176 episodes
Jerry Glenn, Executive Director, Millennium Project
Jerry Glenn, a futurist, serves as the executive director of the Millennium Project, and authors an annual publication, “State of the Future.” He was the e...
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Dr. Desmond Dinan:” A Concise History of the European Union”
Dr. Desmond Dinan is a professor of public policy in the Schar School of Policy and Government and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy at George Mason University. His most recent book is,” A Concise History of the Eu...
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Podcast: Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher: “The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce it.”
Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher is a Connecticut complex litigation judge and former lawyer, legislator and lobbyist. He is the author of “The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce it.” ...
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Mark D. Walker: “The Guatemala Reader: Extraordinary Lives & Amazing Stories”
Mark D. Walker, a Returned U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer from Guatemala, is an award-winning writer and President of Million Mile Walker. His new book is “The Guatemala Reader: Extraordinary Lives & Amazing Stories”. Today we are focu...
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Dr Phil Williams: “The Mediterranean Connection: Criminal Networks and Illicit Economies in North Africa”
Dr Phil Williams is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught from January 1990 to April 2022. In the first part of his career, at Aberdeen University, Southampton University, and Chatham House, he wrote b...
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Michael Albertus: “Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies”
Michael Albertus is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Albertus is the author of five books. His newest book, Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies, tells the story of how...
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Morten Bøås (PhD), “Resisting Radicalization: Exploring the Non-Occurrence of Violent Extremism”
Morten Bøås (PhD) is a Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He works on violent conflict, insurgencies, and fragile states in Africa and the Middle East. From 2020 to 2023 Bøås was the Principal Investigator o...
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Podcast: Dr. Tony Payan, “U.S.-Mexico Relations: Structuring Alternative Futures”
Tony Payan, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. His most recent book is, “U.S.-Mexico Relations: Structuring Alternative Futures.” The US-Mexi...
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Felix Dodds, Expert, UN Sustainable Development--2025 copyright
Felix Dodds has been a leading thinker in the area of global governance and sustainable development for thirty years. He is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina. Felix chaired the UN conference in 2011 that put ...
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Dr. Michael Cairo, “Israeli-Hamas War”
Dr. Michael Cairo is a Professor of Political Science and the Program Director of International Affairs at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky His most recent book is “
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Dr. William Marcy, “Narcostates”
Dr. William Marcy, a lecturer at Buffalo State University, has authored two books: “The Politics of Cocaine,” and his most recent “Narcostates.” He highlights the scope of the Narcostates and the significance of the Central American crisis in e...
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Steve Schlesinger, "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations"
Steve Schlesinger, Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City, authored "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations," and is an expert on the UN and international issues. Over the past 8 decades the UN has expanded its mandate an...
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Dr. Frank N. von Hippel, “Ending the Nuclear Arms Race – A physicist’s quest.”
Dr. Frank N. von Hippel, Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs emeritus of the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University’s forthcoming book is, “Ending the Nuclear Arms Race – A phys...
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Michelle Gladieux, “Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges“
Michelle Gladieux, a communication expert, debate coach, executive coach, and author of “Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges" trains leaders in almost every industry to experience more impactful inte...
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Skyler Badenoch, Executive Director, Hope for Haiti
Skyler Badenoch, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, is Executive Director for the Hope for Haiti organization. Hope for Haiti is a developmental organization focusing on poverty alleviation with an emphasis on women and children. It has...
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Craig Storti, Author, “Why Travel Matters”
Craig Storti, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, is an author and a trainer/consultant in the field of intercultural communications and cross-cultural adaptation. Eight of his books are on intercultural topics, while the two most recent—<...
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Dr. Justin Olmstead, Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Justin Quinn Olmstead is a historian for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His most recent book “From Nuclear Weapons to Global Security: 75 Years of Research and Development at Sandia ...
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Pramila Patten, UN USG on Sexual Violence in Conflict
SRSG Pramila Patten, originally from Mauritius, was appointed by UN Secretary-General António Guterres as Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict w...
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Thom Hartmann, American radio personality and author “The Hidden History of the American Dream?”
hom Hartmann is an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator, whose talk show has been rated in the top 10 shows for over a decade by Talkers Magazine. His most recent book is...
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Jerry Glenn, Executive Director, Millennium Project
Dr. John Barkdull, Texas Tech University Emeritus, taught Political Science at Texas Tech University, established the Global Studies program, taught two years as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the US Air Force Academy and was a Fulbri...
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Dr. John Barkdull, “Confronting Climate Change”
Dr. John Barkdull, Texas Tech University Emeritus, taught Political Science at Texas Tech University, established the Global Studies program, taught two years as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the US Air Force Academy and was a Fulbri...
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Kevin Cassidy, iC One Global, Artificial Intelligence
Kevin Cassidy is currently a Managing Partner at iC One Global which is an international development consultancy providing support in addressing integrated social, economic and environmental challenges. Mr. Cassidy has 40 years of ...
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Dr. Barry Scott Zellen, “Arctic Exceptionalism: Cooperation in a Contested World”
Professor Barry Zellen is a research scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut and is a Senior Fellow (Arctic Security) of the Institute of the North. His recent book is: “Arctic Exceptionali...
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Podcast: Glenn Blumhorst, Peace Corps Foundation
Glenn Blumhorst is a leader in the Peace Corps community and is currently heading the Peace Corps Foundation in its flagship initiative to establish the Peace Corps Park on the National Park Service site near Capitol Hill and the National Mall ...
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