Is the US State Department using its diplomatic efforts to push genetically modified foods into other countries? Our guest says yes. She traced US multi-pronged effort to persuade Mexico to allow genetically modified foods.[ dur: 23mins. ]
- Yadira Ixchel Martínez Pantoja, PhD candidate in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. Her recent paper is titled, United States promotion of GM foods: the use of public diplomacy strategies and instruments to target government agencies in Mexico.
How do we make sense of the 2016 US election politically and historically? [ dur: 35mins. ]
- David P. Redlawsk is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Positive Case for Negative Campaigning, Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process and Reforming Presidential Nominations: Rotating State Primaries or a National Primary?
- Henry E. Brady is a Dean of Policy and a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Rethinking Social Inquiry, Capturing Campaign Effects, and The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology.
- Dr. Paul Michel Taillon is a Professor of History at The University of Auckland. He is a contributing author of Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917.
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This program is produced with generous contribution from Ankine Aghassian, Melissa Chiprin, Tim Page, Mike Hurst and Sudd Dongre.
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