Not Local
by Zeke Harker
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About this podcast
International affairs podcast with experts in the U.S. and abroad.
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Episodes
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- Mongolia & The Enormous Impact of Climate Change · 29 min · Episode 26Zeke speaks with Journalist Anand Tumurtogoo about Mongolia and the extreme impacts that climate change is already having on Mongolian herders. You can find a more in-depth story…
- The Fruits of Our Labor Statistics · 47 min · Episode 25Zeke speaks with Dr. Erica Groshen, the former Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about data integrity, independence within the government, and how statistics…
- The Future is Still Bright · 14 min · Episode 24A brief word on the importance of hope and optimism about the future of human beings. Plan International (Focused on education for children after disasters) CAMFED (Provides…
- Addressing Western Perspective · 57 min · Episode 23Zeke speaks with Substack writer Amir Pars about his experience leaving Iran, growing up in Sweden, how his perspective on the Middle East has changed, and the difficulty Western…
- The Reality of Extreme Belief · 1 h 3 min · Episode 22Zeke speaks with Dr. Aaron Zelin about the Syrian Civil War, the new government of Syria, the philosophy of Al-Qaeda, the scale of the problem of Islamic extremism, and how it is…
- International Power & Values · 15 min · Episode 21Zeke explores the limitations of power in the International community, and how moral values can be put into conflict with one another. Get full access to Not Local at…
- America In The Eyes of The World · 49 min · Episode 20Zeke speaks with Ambassador Roderick Moore about recent U.S. Foreign policy decisions regarding Venezuela, Greenland, and parallels between changes in the international community…
- Electoral Fraud in Myanmar · 30 min · Episode 19Zeke follows up with journalist Lorcan Lovett, author of OnMyanmar, about the recent sham elections in Myanmar, and U.S. contributions to legitimizing the military junta. Lorcan…
- The Persistent Resilience of Ukraine · 38 min · Episode 18Zeke speaks with Olena Kryzhanivska author of Ukraine's Arms Monitor about the current status of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Get full access to Not Local at…
- Trust & Oversight in Democracies and Autocracies · 46 min · Episode 17Zeke speaks with Ambassador Daniel Smith, the former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research with the U.S. Department of State, part of both the Intelligence…
- The Myanmar Conflict · 1 h 4 min · Episode 15Zeke's guest is Lorcan Lovett, a Welsh journalist covering Myanmar and the current crisis happening in one of the least reported on places in the world. Lorcan has his substack…
- Narrative & Revisionism · 57 min · Episode 15Following multiple instances of targeted killings of Jews, Zeke speaks with author and content creator Z.E. Silver about the way the conflict in the Middle East has affected the…
- The True Weight of Gold · 49 min · Episode 14Zeke speaks with Sasha Lezhnev, a Senior Policy Advisor at The Sentry, about the Democratic Republic of Congo and the corruption involved in the extraction of the country's rare…
- The Wealth Lottery · 52 min · Episode 13Zeke speaks with Tom Malleson, author of "Against Inequality" about the scope of income inequality and practical ways societies can strive to address this problem. Get full…
- The War in Ukraine · 40 min · Episode 11Zeke's guest is Olena Kryzhanivska the author of Ukraine's Arms Monitor, and a defense analyst focused on the Russo-Ukrainian war. They discussed the current situation on the…
- The New Universe of U.S. Foreign Policy · 26 min · Episode 10Ambassador Michael Polt speaks with Zeke about the changes and speed of change to long standing U.S. foreign policy. Get full access to Not Local at…
- Global Russian Roulette · 37 min · Episode 9Zeke's guest is Lucas Ruiz, a Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow at the Stimson Center. Zeke and Lucas discuss the history of nuclear weapons risk, the concept of mutually assured…
- The Quiet Humanitarian Crisis · 40 min · Episode 9Zeke’s guest is Nichola Mandil, an award winning journalist who runs through the current events in South Sudan, an area of the world that seldom finds itself near the front pages…
- Immigration, Asylum, and Migration · 28 min · Episode 8Zeke's guest is Kevin Appleby, the Senior Director of International Migration Policy for the Center for Migration Studies of New York. This conversation explores migration trends…
- The Surveillance State of China · 27 min · Episode 7Zeke speaks with Maya Wang, the Associate China Director for Human Rights Watch. Maya discusses the difficulty covering a nation like China, the technology and strategy…
