January 1 - A New Year's Retrospective on Foreign Policy Issues in 2014 and the International Landscape Ahead in 2015

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Today on this New Year’s holiday we examine the important foreign policy political issues and global trends in 2014 and look ahead to what might emerge on the international landscape in 2015. Roger Morris, who served in the United States Foreign Service and on the Senior Staff of the National Security Council under both Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, until resigning over the bombing of Cambodia, and is the author of “Between the Graves: America, Afghanistan and the Politics of Intervention” and “Kindred Rivals: America, Russia and their Failed Ideals”, joins us to analyze the foreign policy challenges ahead as well as assessing the year 2014’s headlines in international relations. We will discuss the most dangerous country in the world, Pakistan and the most intractable issue the Israel/Palestine standoff, as well the possibility of a new Cold War emerging over the continuing confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine. We will also look into the implication of China having the world’s biggest economy that is stuck somewhere between communism and capitalism and the difficulties of dealing with a criminal regime in Russia and other kleptocracies throughout the world who account for why almost a half of global financial activity is hidden in the world’s black economy.