
Small World, Big Problems – a SAIS Strategy Podcast.
A SAIS student podcast supported by the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies.
In Small World, Big Problems, we ask the experts about the biggest challenges in the world of strategy and national security.
It’s a small world, and it’s only getting smaller. But it seems like every day, there is a new problem on the horizon: great power... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 25 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | News CommentaryNewsGovernment | |||

Riley Bryant sits down with Dr. Deborah Wituski, a 20-year veteran of the CIA and an early contributor to the emerging field of private sector intelligence services.
In an increasingly globalized economy, what happens when profit motives intersect ... more
Krithiga Narayanan hosts a conversation with Michael Coppedge, co-founder and principal investigator of the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem), one of the world’s leading efforts to measure and analyze democratic change.
Drawing on V-Dem’s late... more
This episode was recorded on Jan 21, 2026.
Wasay Mir hosts a conversation with Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute and one of the most influential voices on US-Iran relations in Washington.
A Johns Hopkins SAIS PhD and aut... more
Sanjana Polapragada hosts a two-speaker conversation with Robert Miller, a seasoned “startup statesman” who has advised companies such as CrowdAI (now acquired by Saab) and Hawkeye 360 (now valued at over a billion dollars), and Emma Bates, CEO and f... more
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An excellent podcast for anyone interested in foreign policy—I can tell that both the hosts and the interviewees are very knowledgeable
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