Frontlines and Backrooms
By Vladimir Bobetic
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Episodes: 48
Description
Frontlines & Backrooms is a documentary-style podcast about the world’s most complex conflicts — told with context, precision, and humanity.
Hosted by journalist Vladimir Bobetić, the series blends lived experience, deep research, and unfiltered conversations with historians, activists, diplomats, and eyewitnesses.
From conflict zones to corridors of power around the world — this is a space for nuance in a world drowning in noise.
No shouting. No spin. No propaganda.
Just conversations that matter.
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Samira Mohyeddin | Israel, Iran, and the Collapse of Western Credibility
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May 15, 2026 |
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Dr. Abdullah Fahimi | Climate Wars, Migration, and the Future of Global Conflict
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May 10, 2026 |
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Peter Schwartzstein | Climate Change, Migration, and the Wars of the Future
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May 09, 2026 |
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Kristin Diwan | Gulf States After the Iran War — Is Stability Just an Illusion?
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May 03, 2026 |
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Hussein Banai | This Is Not Just a War With Iran — It’s About Power Inside the United States
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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From the Vatican to Strait of Hormuz | Power, Faith, and War Across the Middle East
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Apr 18, 2026 |
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Mouin Rabbani | Iran, Israel, the U.S. — and the War Reshaping the Middle East
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Randa Slim | Hezbollah, Lebanon, Iran, and the Collapse of the Middle East Order
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Iran–US Talks in Islamabad: A Real Deal or Just a Pause Before the War Resumes?
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Apr 11, 2026 |
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Roger Higginson | On War in Iran and the Middle East — Why the West Doesn’t Understand Its Enemies
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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OONA HATHAWAY - IS THE IRAN WAR ILLEGAL? | ON TRUMP, INTERNATIONAL LAW & THE UN CHARTER.
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Trump's Iran War Speech Explained — What It Said, What It Hid
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Apr 04, 2026 |
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Joseph Cirincione | Iran War: Nuclear Risk, U.S. Strategy, and What Comes Next
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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No Negotiations, Only Demands | Iran War, April 6 Deadline & Israel in Lebanon
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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Richard Falk | Why International Law Doesn’t Restrain Power
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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The Day America Stopped Leading | NATO, Hormuz, and the Cuba Shock
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Is International Law Still Relevant? | Mona Ali Khalil
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Hormuz Is Closed: Oil Shock, China’s Dilemma and a War Spreading Across the Gulf
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Iran — The Next Iraq or Something Far Worse? | Frontlines & Backrooms Brief
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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BRIEF #11 | Trump’s State of the Union and Europe’s Strategic Crisis
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Nathan Brown | The Palestinian Leadership Crisis Explained
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Brief #10 | Jesse Jackson, Munich Security Conference, and Gaza as Real Estate
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Rebecca Gould | Erasing Palestine – Free Speech, Censorship, and the Gaza Debate
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Awni Etaywe | Incitement to Genocide in Gaza & Forensic Linguistics
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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John Quigley | Genocide, Intent, and International Law at the ICJ
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Brief #9 — Reconstruction Without Legitimacy, Portugal’s Warning, and the Politics of Attention
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Gaza Explained — How It Became a Permanent Political Exception
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Brief #8 — Iran on the Edge, Trade Without Trust, and a World Re-aligning
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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Brief #7 — Private Messages, Public Pressure, and the Gaza Board
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Jan 24, 2026 |
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Brief #6 — Iran on the Edge, Gaza Phase Two, and the Greenland Illusion
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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The Gaza Exception (Part II): Mouin Rabbani
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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The Gaza Exception (Part I): Tamer Qarmout
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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The Age of Precedents Without Consequences
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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2026: The End of Illusions — Frontlines & Backrooms Brief
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Jan 03, 2026 |
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Echo Chamber: Media, Language, and the Gaza War (Part II) | Dina Matar
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Echo Chamber: Media, Language, and the Gaza War (Part I) | Sharif Abdel Kouddous
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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EP2 Teaser — Echo Chamber: The Media and the Gaza War
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Dec 27, 2025 |
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Frontlines & Backrooms Brief — Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine & the New Rules of Power
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Frontlines & Backrooms Brief - Framing the Dead
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Bonus: Benny Morris on Palestinian Disillusionment with the Two-State Solution
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Bonus: Life and Power in the West Bank — Nadina Malicbegovic
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Bonus: Media, Law, and the Reluctance to Name Genocide — Zachary Foster
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Gaza: Politics of Survival (Part 2)
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Gaza: Politics of Survival (Part 1)
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Frontlines & Backrooms Brief — Gaza, Ukraine and the Politics of Survival
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Teaser 3 — Gaza: The Politics of Survival
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Teaser 2 — The Human Reality of Gaza
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Frontlines and Backrooms — Official Teaser
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Nov 15, 2025 |