Diplomacy

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcome Indian Parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor for a discussion of India’s role in world affairs. Tharoor discusses his journey from international civil servant to Indian politician. He analyzes how world order is changing as a result of the revolution in communications technology. He then outlines the role India will play as it undergoes major social and economic transformation. He concludes with a discussion of the implications for US Indian relations analyzing the interface between the superpower turning to multilateralism and a rising power shaping the...

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Harvard Professor Samantha Power for a discussion of her new book, "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira De Mello and the Fight to Save the World." The conversation focuses on the lessons of De Mello's life for understanding the challenges confronting world order in the 21st century.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people8/Power/power-con0.html

On this episode of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler welcomes guest Ambassador Princeton Lyman, former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and to South Africa, who discusses U.S. foreign policy and state power in an era of globalization.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Lyman/lyman-con0.html

In this 1982 interview, one the U.S. preeminent diplomats Philip Habib talks about his life and times as a foreign service officer and special envoy of the President of the United States. He reflects on great statesmen he has worked with, the difficulties of crisis management, and his involvement in the resolution of the Lebanon crisis, which won him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Habib/