Need to Know

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The Need To Know podcast is a production of the Office of Congressional Relations at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Each episode we will bring our nonpartisan research to life through interviews with experts and practitioners covering the world. Our goal is to bring the best independent research, open dialogue and actionable ideas to congressional staff, policy makers, and anyone else who needs to know.

Episode Date
Pakistan in Peril? The State of the Nation's Democracy, Economy, and Relationship with the US
Mar 26, 2024
Navigating the Electric Vehicle Supply Chain: Insights and Strategies
Mar 15, 2024
New Study Upends Negative Assumptions About the Economic Impact of Refugees
Mar 08, 2024
Standing Strong: Witnessing Resilience in Ukraine
Feb 26, 2024
The US Congress: Priorities & Challenges in 2024
Feb 07, 2024
Collateral Damage: Can the Abraham Accords Survive the Israel-Hamas War?
Nov 21, 2023
Battling Malaria: The Global Fight Against a Deadly Foe
Nov 14, 2023
Afghanistan After Two Years of Taliban Rule: “It’s pretty bad!”
Sep 25, 2023
Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis: The Plight of Afghan Refugees
Aug 29, 2023
Increasing Competitiveness by Building a Better U.S.-Mexico Border
Jul 24, 2023
Mixed Signals: Is a US-China “Cold War” Heating Up or Cooling Down?
Jun 26, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Regulation
May 31, 2023
The Farm Bill: What do Farmers and Ranchers Want From the Legislation?
May 02, 2023
Introduction to the Farm Bill
Apr 04, 2023
The Future of Cryptocurrency: Public Policy and Regulatory Challenges
Mar 07, 2023
Border Security
Feb 15, 2023
Energy Security
Jan 24, 2023
China: Strategic Interests, Protests, and the Future
Dec 20, 2022
An Inside Look at the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference
Nov 28, 2022
Examining Protests in Iran and the Arab World
Nov 02, 2022
The Arctic is Hot
Sep 09, 2022
What Will Really Happen If Speaker Pelosi Goes to Taiwan?
Aug 01, 2022
Analyzing Refugee Challenges Using Lived Experience
Jul 19, 2022
100th Episode!
Jul 08, 2022
Summit of the Americas Debrief
Jun 13, 2022
A Cold War with China?
May 31, 2022
The Great Wall of Steel - China's Global Campaign Against the Uyghurs
May 20, 2022
Latin America’s Leftists Aren’t Who You Think
Mar 09, 2022
Ukraine Invaded... Why?
Mar 01, 2022
A Briefing on Protests in Canada
Feb 14, 2022
Relationships and Rivalries: Venezuela and Colombia
Feb 08, 2022
Event Audio: Setting the Record Straight on NATO Enlargement | Amb. Green Interview with Robert Zoellick
Feb 01, 2022
Relationships and Rivalries: "China's Tailored Capabilities to Strike Us" over Taiwan
Jan 26, 2022
Unrest in Kazakhstan
Jan 19, 2022
Ukraine and A Sliding Scale of Horrors
Jan 19, 2022
Relationships and Rivalries - A Fascinating Triangle in Asia
Jan 12, 2022
Relationships and Rivalries - China vs. India?
Nov 11, 2021
Relationships and Rivalries - Does North Korea Listen to China?
Nov 08, 2021
Relationships and Rivalries - Is the Way To China Through Europe?
Nov 04, 2021
Relationships and Rivalries - Mexico Leans Left?
Oct 29, 2021
Special Episode - A Conversation with Colombian President Iván Duque
Sep 22, 2021
Special Event Episode - The Abraham Accords One Year Later
Sep 20, 2021
Techno-Totalitarianism? China's Cultural Crackdown
Sep 15, 2021
Turkey Strikes Yazidis in Iraq... Again
Sep 09, 2021
Special Episode - Implications of the Afghanistan Withdrawal for South Asia
Aug 27, 2021
Top 10 Traits of a Good Congressional Staffer
Aug 20, 2021
Special Episode - Ambassador Mark Green in Conversation with H.R. McMaster on Afghanistan
Aug 12, 2021
Special Episode - Ambassador Mark Green In Conversation with Gen. David Patreus and John Scarlett Hindsight Up Front
Aug 12, 2021
You Really Ought to Know More About Canada
Aug 09, 2021
Nicaragua's Election Quagmire
Jul 22, 2021
Afghanistan Withdrawal Continues Apace
Jul 16, 2021
Lumbering Towards Disaster? Lumber Prices, Canada and Supply Chains
Jun 11, 2021
The Time Is Now: John Cena and China Reaction
May 27, 2021
Long Time Gone - Discussing the Afghanistan Withdrawal
May 07, 2021
Weaving Noise: Xinjiang, China and the World
Apr 30, 2021
High Stakes Deepfakes
Apr 28, 2021
Broken Politics? A Conversation with Former Hill Staffers
Apr 21, 2021
A New Surge At The Southern Border
Mar 26, 2021
The Tales of a Master Negotiator
Mar 05, 2021
Military Rule Returns to Myanmar
Feb 12, 2021
Tried Plan C - What's Plan D? The Navalny Phenomenon inside and outside Russia
Feb 09, 2021
A Russia Roundtable
Feb 01, 2021
Who's Impeachin' Who - A Dose of History from Brenda Wineapple
Jan 28, 2021
The View from History with John Ferling
Jan 15, 2021
Jane Harman on Reconciliation For The Future
Jan 15, 2021
The Free Fire Zone in Cyberspace Part 2
Dec 22, 2020
The Free Fire Zone In Cyberspace
Dec 11, 2020
How to Distribute 7 Billion Vaccines
Dec 02, 2020
The RCEP Deal - Is China Writing the Rules Now?
Nov 20, 2020
50 Ways to Leave Afghanistan
Nov 18, 2020
Africa and the COVID-19 Challenge
Oct 29, 2020
Europe - Why Should We Care?
Sep 30, 2020
So What'd I Miss? The Post-Summer Catch Up Show
Sep 08, 2020
Book Chat: US Strategy in the Asian Century
Aug 18, 2020
An Explosion in Lebanon - The Port and Politics
Aug 14, 2020
The Clock is Ticking for TikTok
Aug 11, 2020
How To Lose the Information War - Book chat with Nina Jankowicz
Jul 21, 2020
AMLO Visits the US, So Mexico Experts Visit Us
Jul 07, 2020
Deadly Companions - Pandemics Changing History
Jul 02, 2020
All About the Relationships: The China India Border Dispute
Jun 19, 2020
50th Episode!
Jun 04, 2020
To Reopen or Not to Reopen: That is the Border Question
May 27, 2020
Imagine Renegotiating All Your Trade Deals Right Now
May 21, 2020
What COVID Responses and Economic Recovery Looks Like in Asia
May 08, 2020
COVID Economics in Latin America
May 08, 2020
Here's Looking At EU - How Europe Recovers from COVID-19
May 06, 2020
Where in the World Is KJU - Possibilites and Meanings with Abe Denmark
May 01, 2020
They Were Supposed to Party Like It Was 1999... AND 1945
Apr 28, 2020
Chained to Our Neighbors - How North American Supply Chains are Holding Up
Apr 23, 2020
Watch Out For The Doom Scroll - COVID Disinformation in Europe and Asia
Apr 17, 2020
Where Do You Plan To Be In 15 Years? Putin's Answer: Right Here.
Apr 06, 2020
"The Hacker and the State," or "We're Not Talking About Coronavirus"
Mar 31, 2020
The Viral Episode 2 - Going Beyond the Day To Day
Mar 26, 2020
The Viral Episode - Coronavirus from the public health, regional, and economic levels
Feb 28, 2020
Imagine Being Ukraine Right Now
Feb 20, 2020
Juan Guaidó in the House!
Feb 11, 2020
Trading Views: Bonus History Episode
Jan 23, 2020
Trading Views: Going From NAFTA To USMCA
Jan 23, 2020
Trading Views: A Growing Industry
Jan 21, 2020
Trading Views: Set Phasers to One!
Jan 09, 2020
Trading Views: On the Front Lines of a Trade War
Jan 06, 2020
Gaming out the UK Election
Dec 17, 2019
Elections in Hong Kong and What They Mean for Protests
Nov 26, 2019
Anders Beal on the Real Deal with Latin America's Protests
Nov 22, 2019
The Tapestry of Syria - Part 1
Nov 08, 2019
The Tapestry of Syria - Part 2
Nov 08, 2019
South Pacific Breezes Blowing - Why Pacific Island Nations Are Looking to DC
Nov 05, 2019
What President Trump Gets Right About Mexico
Oct 31, 2019
Russia and China, Sitting in a Tree?
Oct 22, 2019
Halloween is Coming! Is Brexit?
Oct 11, 2019
Is China Dictating What We See On TV?
Oct 08, 2019
Quicktake! The Politics of a Definite Article
Oct 01, 2019
It's Meg King... or Maybe It's a Deepfake
Sep 24, 2019
Black Smoke On The Horizon - Will Attacks on Oil Facilities in Saudi Arabia Spark a Conflagration?
Sep 16, 2019
Taliban Talks Collapse... Now What?
Sep 10, 2019
Smoke on the Amazon - The Politics of Wildfires in Brazil
Sep 10, 2019
Negotiations and Love Notes - Where Do The North Korea Nuclear Talks Stand?
Sep 05, 2019
Pining for the Fjords of Greenland - Following Up on the Arctic
Aug 21, 2019
An Update on the Hong Kong Protests
Aug 12, 2019
What's the environment like on a silk road?
Aug 12, 2019