Episode #112 -- Alex Christoforou and the Gre...

Santiago Capital's Brent Johnson returns to the podcast for a forward-looking chat about where we are in the flow of economic and politcal history on the eve of the mid-term elections in the US. Brent's got an insightful take on the tug of war going on between the Fed and the US ...  Show more

Ret. General and host of Dangerous Intellectuals Blaine Holt joins author EM Burlingame me for a open forum discussion on the current state of play as we head into the end of September and the eve of the escalatory season for the US mid-terms. Note: this episode was recorded on t ...  Show more

Tensions between Greece and Turkey have reignited this summer over a gas dispute, with the country's leaders trading rhetorical blows. But how precarious is the situation and could they be sleep-walking into a war in the Mediterranean?Guest: Hannah Lucinda-Smith, The Times' Istan ...  Show more

Cihan Dizdaroğlu on “Turkish-Greek Relations: Foreign Policy in a Securitisation Framework” (Edinburgh University Press). The book looks at how ties between Athens and Ankara have gone through various cycles of improvement and deterioration from the early Republic of Turkey to ...

Greece is approaching a crunch point - again. Six years after its first bailout, the government in Athens is looking to its creditors, the International Monetary Fund and the European Commission, for fresh help. Mehreen Khan discusses the latest crisis and what's at stake for Eur ...  Show more

The ethnically split island of Cyprus is a persistent source of tension between Greece and Turkey, which are both partners in NATO but are at odds over numerous issues. Their differences are laid bare in Nicosia, the world's last remaining divided capital city with a buffer zone ...  Show more