Podcasts for the UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations

The 2026-27 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture

Evan Gershkovich, foreign correspondent, The Wall Street Journal

2025-26 Burkle Center International Career Panel

Dr. Richard Downie, Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Pacific Council on International Policy; Kristin Ghazarians, Associate Director of the Human Rights Wa

The 2025-26 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace

Ambassador Eric Garcetti, 26th United States Ambassador to India and 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles

Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder

Ambassador Michael McFaul, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014) and Ken Oliver and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Politica

The 2025-26 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development

Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University and former chief economist, IMF

Student Voices: Politics and Power in International Law

If power determines law, what does that mean for the rules-based international order?

What Does the U.S. Invasion Mean for Venezuela and the Region?

Dorothy Kronick, Associate Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

Making Bribery Profitable Again? The Market Effects of Halting Extraterritorial Accountability for Overseas Bribery

Edmund Malesky, Professor of Political Economy at Duke University and Scientific Director of VinUniversity Green-X Research Center

The 2024-25 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace: "The Small States Club: How Small Smart States Can Save the World"

H.E. Armen Sarkissian, Former President of the Republic of Armenia

Judicial Territory: Law, Capital and the Expansion of American Empire

Shaina Potts, Associate Professor, Geography and Global Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Words of War: Negotiation as a Tool of Conflict

Eric Min, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Defending Democracy: The German Approach

Ronen Steinke, journalist, author, legal scholar, 2025 Thomas Mann Fellow

Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare

Edward Fishman, Sr. Research Scholar, Center Global Energy Policy andamp; Adj Professor, SIPA, Columbia University

The 2024-25 Arnold C. Harberger Distinguished Lecture on Economic Development

Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics andamp; Professor at MIT Sloan

The 2024-25 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture

Haviv Rettig Gur, Journalist and Senior Analyst at The Times of Israel

Carbon Politics, American Power, and the Almighty Dollar

Mark Blyth, William R. Rhodes ’57 Prof International Economics andamp; Acting Director, Climate Solutions Lab

Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security

Fiona Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

The Gaza Ceasefire: An Assessment

Dr. Dalia Dassa Kaye, Burkle Center Senior Fellow and Prof. Dov Waxman, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair of Israel Studies and Professor of Political Sci

When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia

Erin Lin, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

States and Nature: The Effects of Climate Change on Security

Joshua W. Busby, Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin