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Background Briefing has a new home at BackgroundBriefing.org.
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with guest host Toby Miller |
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We begin and speak with Mehdi Semati, a Professor of Communcations at Northern Illinois University, and discuss current nuclear talks with Iran and improvements in diplomatic relations with its new president. |
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| Then we are joined by Mexico-based journalist Jennifer Collins and examine attempts to reform the Mexican economy as well as resistance to such initiatives. | ![]() |
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| We finish with Alan Tomlinson of the University of Brighton to discuss the World Cup and sport as a means of “soft power". | ![]() |
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