This Month on Dialogue

Dialogue Radio: Week of July 06 - 12, 2009 (Program #882)    


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60: Happy Birthday?      
Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA

When, in 1948, the United Nations promulgated the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the world was a very different place. The devastation of World War II was still evident and a new ominous Cold War was in its early stages. Protecting human rights then largely meant protecting the rights of refugees. Today, on its 60th anniversary, the declaration is still vital and its mandate has vastly expanded. Amnesty International Director Larry Cox explains.

Dialogue Radio: Week of July 13 - 19, 2009 (Program #883)    


There Be Dragons: Confronting the Economic Crisis      
Kathryn Lavelle – Ellen and Dixon Long Associate Professor of World Affairs at case Western University and a Current Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

The known magnitude of the current recession already makes it the most challenging economic downturn since the great Depression. The massive stimulus programs aimed at the crisis are said to draw much inspiration from lessons learned in the wake of that depression. Yet some argue that a host of valuable lessons is found in a previous historic period: from the civil war to 1913. In that era successive panics led to fundamental regulatory reform. Kathryn Lavelle explains the value of the experience for these times.

Dialogue Radio: Week of July 20 - 26, 2009 (Program #884)    


Greece: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow      
Alexandros Mallias, Ambassador of Greece to the United States.

The history of the Peloponnesian Wars and the works of Plato, Aristotle and Homer have guided the actions of Western statesmen for ages. The plays of Sophocles and other Greek play wrights influenced the leadership philosophy of Martin Luther King. The classic texts of ancient Greece have endured precisely because they continue to inspire. Their utility rests upon the timeless brilliance of understanding the human condition. Alexandros Mallias, Greek Ambassador to the United States, explain why the classics are immortal.

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