Buffett Center Webcasts

Steve Radelet, USAID » Emerging Africa: How 17 Countries Are Leading the Way

Radelet examines economic growth, deepening democracy, improved governance, and decreased poverty in Africa.

Dean Karlan, Yale » More than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty

Karlan discusses controlled studies that evaluate the effectiveness of programs that fight poverty.

Sinan Ciddi, Georgetown University » Uncertainties following the Arab Spring: Considering Turkey as a Model

Ciddi examines Turkey as a model for countries coming out of the Arab Spring.

Safak Pavey » Participating in Politics in the Middle East as a Disabled Woman

Pavey shares her experiences working on UN humanitarian missions and in the Turkish parliament.

Raj Kumar » The Future of Global Development

Devex co-founder and president Raj Kumar discusses new trends in development and the future of foreign aid.

Doug Saunders » Arrival Cities: The Final Migration & Our Next World

Journalist Doug Saunders discusses migration, poverty, development, and the politics of modern cities.

Scott Carney » The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers

Investigative journalist Scott Carney reports on the lucrative and deeply secretive trade in human bodies and body parts.

Charles Kenny » Getting Better: Why Development is Succeeding and How We Can Improve the World Even More

Kenny, Center for Global Development, argues that new ideas and technologies have greatly improved the lives of the world's poor.

Sükrü Hanioglu » Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography

Hanioglu, Princeton University, discusses Atatürk's intellectual life in the contex of the turbulent age in which he lived.

Francis Fukuyama » The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

Fukuyama, Stanford, analyzes the global history of state formation.

Esther Duflo » Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Duflo shares MIT's Poverty Action Lab findings about what works in international development.

James Stewart » Reviving Corporate Liability for Pillaging Natural Resources

Stewart, University of British Columbia, argues for a revival of criminal liability of businesses for pillaging natural resources from conflict zones.

Joseph Nye » The Future of Power

Joseph Nye, Harvard University, discusses the new balance of world powers and argues against the idea of American decline.

Timur Kuran, Duke University, provides an explanation of why the economy of the Middle East fell behind that of Europe.

John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago, discusses when and why leaders lie to their people and to international partners.

Jenny White, Boston University, talks about her latest novel and its setting: Istanbul.

Bernhard Zangl, Buffett Visiting Professor, analyzes dramatic transformations of international organizations in recent years.

Amar Bhidé, Tufts University, suggests changes to the financial system to prevent crises and promote a dynamic economy.

David Harvey, CUNY Graduate Center, offers a critique of the global financial system.

Tariq Ramadan, Oxford University, talks about what it means to be a Muslim and a Westerner.

Collier discusses how responsible harnessing of natural resources could lift "The Bottom Billion" countries from poverty.

Nobel laureate and Harvard professor Amartya Sen discusses the idea of social justice.

John L. Esposito, Georgetown University, explores the major questions and issues that face Islam in the 21st century and that will deeply affect global politics.

Ambassador Richard S. Williamson discusses what the United States and the international community can do to prevent mass murder and atrocities.

Ian Buruma, Bard College, argues that the violent passions inspired by religion must be tamed in order to make democracy work.

Geoffrey Robinson, UCLA, gives a first-person account of the violence in East Timor in 1999, details the politics and history behind it, and explains how genocide was averted.

Deborah Bräutigam, American University, tackles the myths and realities of Chinese aid and investment in Africa, and evaluates how they fit into China's "going global" strategy.

Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari recounts her incarceration in Evin Prison, the most notorious penitentiary in Ahmadinejad’s Iran, and discusses recent events in Iran.

Bulent Aliriza, Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses Turkey's foreign policy and trade strategy.

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen recounts his experience in Iran during the post-election protests and reflects on the future of Iran.

Wang Dan, a key leader of the 1989 student movement, discusses the lessons of the Tiananmen Square events and today's China.

John Waterbury, former president of the American University of Beirut, discusses the alleged resistance of Islam to democracy.

David Mares analyzes how Latin American countries altered their energy policies with changes in energy markets since 1973.

David Kilcullen, former advisor to General Petraeus in Iraq, discusses modern warfare, illuminating the "War on Terrorism" and the associated "small wars" across the globe.

Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, argues that the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East during the 45 years of the Cold War and exacerbated regional and civil wars.

Siddharth Kara investigates the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across four continents and takes stock of its devastating human toll.

Maureen Freely, author and translator of Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, discusses writing about Turkey for an Anglophone audience and conveying the Turkey she loves at a time when the political story is often dark and ominous.