Forums Archive
Below is an archival listing of all Cape Ann Forum forums. Audio and/or video may be available for some of the forums. Please click on the forum's title or the "read more" link to see more details about the forum.
This forums archive is updated frequently and past forums are added on a regular basis. This archive is a work-in-progress.
U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges in the Obama Era
Iran Today: What’s Behind the Headlines
Thirty years after the revolution that transformed Iran into an Islamic republic, the country is back on the front pages. One day the news is about the country’s nuclear program, the next its regional policies, then its fiercely contested political arena. What’s behind these multi-layered confrontations and conflicts, and how do they feed on each other? Who—or what forces—controls Iran today, and what does the future hold? If the United States is going to engage Iran, how should we do so, and what can we expect? read more »
Covering Africa: Pirates, Rebels and Other Tales
Jeffrey Gettleman has spent the past three years on the frontlines of news from Africa. He has lunched with pirates in Somalia and sweated it out for a week in an Ethiopian jail (not by choice). He’s covered Darfur, Congo, Kenya’s implosion last year, and the secretive side of Eritrea. He’s even sparred with a blind boxer in Uganda. Throughout these adventures, he tries to capture the humanity of the people he’s writing about and to look deeply into the causes of conflict. read more »
Life, Death and the Taliban
At this crucial time in the U.S.-led war against the Taliban, Charlie Sennott recaps the group’s rise to power and looks at current political and counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, which he visited this summer. “What we don’t know is killing us,” he says. Through nearly 25 years as a reporter and on-air analyst, award-winning journalist and author, Sennott has been on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in 15 countries, from the jungles of Colombia to the deserts of Iraq. read more »
Thailand’s Regime: Urban and Rural Threats
Dr. Zachary Abuza, an expert in Southeast Asian politics and security issues and a resident of Ipswich, will speak on the twin threats to one of America’s closest Asian allies, Thailand, by an uprising in the capital and a growing but largely unreported Islamist insurgency in the rural south. read more »