Joanna Fensome, Mitch Hulse, and Nathan Seef discuss what was at stake in the election in the Netherlands earlier this week, the impeachment of South Korea’s president and implications of the installation of a THAAD system in the country, as well as some applications of the idea of access to Internet as a human right.

Joanna Fensome, Mitch Hulse, and Nathan Seef discuss a recent meeting between Turkey, Russia, and the USA on developments and strategies in the Syrian conflict before moving on to the implications of a recent diplomatic spat between Malaysia and North Korea following the murder of Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother last month.

Joanna Fensome and Nathan Seef discuss the Indonesian government's plan to devote $1 billion annually to clean up its seas before reflecting on a decision about Israeli settlements in the West Bank that is rather different from the one we discussed several weeks ago.

Joanna Fensome and Mitch Hulse sit down with Dr David Boyd on his 2015 book The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future, which from his experience as an environmental lawyer discusses why there is optimism in climate change policy.

Mitch Hulse, Raphaël Roman, and Nathan Seef discus the appointment of of Betsy DeVos as US Secretary of Education, the questionable conviction of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and a police strike in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo.

Joanna Fensome, Mitch Hulse, and Raphaël Roman sit down with Chad Rickaby and Zameena Dadani to discuss their Global Policy Project, which is one of the many capstone assignments of the MPPGA program. The two had worked with the Indian firm Sub-K to work on financial inclusion.