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11/11/2025

Hal Brands: Allies, Autocrats, and AI

Today on Political Economy, I’m chatting with Hal Brands about America’s place in the changing global order. Under the Trump administration, the US has acted less as an “ordering power,” as Brands puts it, than it has over the past century. We talk about the evolving relationship between the US and its allies, in addition to the role of emerging technology in the competition with China. Brands is a senior fellow here at AEI, where he researches US foreign policy and defense strategy. He is also the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. His newest book, The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World, is available now.

11/11/2025

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28 min
12/08/2020

Ronald Bailey: Global trends every smart person should know

Ronald Bailey gives the case for long-term optimism based on many positive global trends including declining violence and the dramatic reduction in extreme poverty. He also discusses why pessimism persists in spite of these trends. The post Ronald Bailey: Global trends every smart person should know appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

12/08/2020

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27 min
06/10/2025

What Are Budget Rescissions and Pocket Rescissions? (with Philip Wallach)

The topic of this episode is, what are budget rescissions and pocket rescissions? Rescissions have been in the news recently. This past July President Donald J. Trump sent the House and Senate a rescissions message. This memorandum requested that Congress rescind, or take back, spending authority it had previously granted. Congress passed the legislation, which cut $9 billion from foreign aid, the U.S. Institute for Peace, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A rescission of funds has not occurred since 1999, when former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, struck a deal with the Republican-held House and Senate. Now the Trump administration is attempting a maneuver called a “pocket rescission.” What’s a pocket rescission? To answer that question I have as my guest my colleague, Dr. Philip Wallach. He is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a colleague and a friend. At AEI he studies America’s separation of powers, with a focus on regulatory policy issues and the relationship between Congress and the administrative state. His latest book is Why Congress (Oxford University Press). Click here for a full transcript of the episode.

06/10/2025

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30 min
09/12/2020

Building pathways to career success for entry-level workers (Part 1)

Entry-level workers face a myriad of obstacles to finding, keeping, and advancing in their careers that can hamper progress toward achieving family-sustaining employment. These obstacles inhibit company productivity and company efforts to reduce turnover and strengthen and diversify workforces. Employer Resource Networks are a potential solution to this problem. This episode of Hardly Working is the first in a two-part sequence of a recent event hosted at the American Enterprise Institute, entitled “Employer Resource Networks: Improving employment retention and building career opportunities for low-wage workers”.

09/12/2020

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35 min
05/07/2022

I survived the Kremlin's Assassination Attempts (with Oleksiy Goncharenko MP)

Giselle and Dalibor interview Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament who has survived three assassination attempts by the Kremlin. He retells his story in which he experienced, firsthand, the barbarism and insanity of the Kremlin's political agenda. He also weighs in on the current state of corruption in the Ukrainian government; discusses the trajectory of the war in Ukraine; and underscores the significance of Ukrainian ascension into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European Union.

05/07/2022

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37 min
12/07/2022

Georgia, torn between Russia & Ukraine (with Amb. Batu Katelia)

Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia are joined by the honorable Batu Katelia, former Georgian Ambassador to the United State and Deputy Secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council and current member of the board at the Atlantic Council of Georgia and a Next Generation Leader Fellow at the McCain Institute for International Leadership. Amb. Katelia shines the light on Georgia's "collaborationist" government, noting that "Georgia is weakest link on frontline against Russia”. He elucidates the divide between Georgian political elites within the Georgian Dream party which seek to appease Putin and Georgia's majority pro-Western population and shares about the Georgian people's great support for Ukraine, and he speaks to the challenges Georgia faces in pursuing its own Western integration and managing relations with Russia.

12/07/2022

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38 min
17/09/2020

The Divided Brain: Perception, Social Life, and Interpersonal Neurobiology [REBROADCAST]

Most people know that the human brain is divided into two hemispheres: the left brain and the right brain. But what purpose does this division serve, and how does it influence perception, behavior, economics, and culture? In this rebroadcasted episode of “Hardly Working,” host Brent Orrell is joined by Dr. Iain McGilchrist, author of “The Master and His Emissary,” […] The post The Divided Brain: Perception, Social Life, and Interpersonal Neurobiology [REBROADCAST] appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

17/09/2020

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38 min
07/07/2020

Broadband network capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic (with Roger Entner)

In AEI's newest podcast, host Shane Tews talks to telecom expert Roger Entner about how broadband networks are withstanding the strain caused by COVID-19 The post Broadband network capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic (with Roger Entner) appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

07/07/2020

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26 min
11/07/2024

Unpacking the Data Dilemma

As the US pushes for a TikTok ban and the EU leads the way in data privacy regulation, experts warn that overly restrictive policies might inadvertently stifle innovation and economic growth. But how do we strike the right balance? What role does data play in shaping our society? How do we categorize and classify the information we generate daily? And what challenges do policymakers face in regulating data? In this timely episode of "Explain to Shane," we dive into the critical intersection of data and society. Shane interviews Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos, co-authors of DATA RULES: Reinventing the Market Economy. Cristina is an Assistant Professor in Digital Economy and Society at LUISS University, in Rome, Italy and Jannis is a Full Professor of Information Systems at LUISS Business School.

11/07/2024

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36 min
21/06/2022

A Look Inside a Cybersecurity Training Firm (with Keith Peer)

Cyberattacks are one of the largest threats facing society today. Learning how cyber disruptions take place is the best way to protect services provided by network operations and data systems, but who has the training resources and expert teams required to detect unseen risks for enterprise, government, and civil society alike? On this episode of “Explain to Shane,” Shane is joined by Keith Peer, head of the federal practice at Offensive Security. Offensive Security is a leading cybersecurity organization that offers courses, training exercises, and certifications on systems penetration testing for the federal government and a number of Fortune 500 companies. Keith joins the show to explain how Offensive Security’s experts are tackling the unique challenges of today’s cyber landscape.

21/06/2022

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19 min

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