A cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues began in 1988 as part of a mission to promote better understanding of world events and issues by Nebraskans. This (audio-only) podcast is updated the day after a lecture in the series is given.
Chuck Hagel served two terms in the United States Senate, from 1997-2009, representing the state of Nebraska. He served as chairman of the Congression...
Christine Todd Whitman is president of the Whitman Strategy Group, a consulting firm specializing in energy and environmental issues. She is also the ...
E. Benjamin Skinner is the first person in history to witness negotiations for the sale of human beings on four continents. In his book "A Crime so Mo...
Rob Gifford first went to China in 1987, as a 20-year-old undergraduate, to study the Chinese language. He has spent much of the last twenty years liv...
Europe's rapid colonization of Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to be known as the "Scramble for Africa." Is China's increasing i...
Once a sleeping giant, today China is the world's fastest growing economy--a dramatic turn-around that alarms many Westerners. Shirk's 2007 book, "Chi...
The year 2008 offered unprecedented opportunities for Chinese and Anglophone Internet users to communicate. They were standing nose to virtual nose, b...
"The persistent issue of the United States' trade deficit with China is becoming more controversial as more American manufacturing jobs are lost. With...
Bruce Babbitt was Governor of Arizona from 1978-87 and Attorney General of Arizona from 1975-78. As governor, he brought environmental and resource ma...
Known as "The Green Evangelist," Reverend Richard Cizik calls climate change a crisis of "biblical proportions." Cizik is vice president for governmen...