Here is a listing of upcoming programs which will be aired on NPR stations around the country.

Below is the program schedule for KQED in San Francisco. The programs air every Monday and are uploaded by satellite to the NPR network the following Wednesday. The schedules of the local NPR stations that run these programs may vary. For information about syndication, go here.

Upcoming Programs

Mon, April 14

Title: Suicide Bombers in Iraq
Speakers: Mohammed Hafez, Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Description: Dr. Mohammed Hafez, professor of political science, will examine the history of suicide bombing, its theoretical perspectives and the various factions. Delving deep into the Iraq insurgency, he will also consider the ideology and theology of martyrdom supporting suicide bombers, their national origins and characteristics, and the prospect for a “third generation” of transnational bombers.

Program Date: March 25, 2008

Mon, April 21

Title: How Emerging Markets are Reshaping the Global Balance of Power

Speakers: Parag Khanna, Director of the Global Governance Initiative; Senior Research Fellow for the American Strategy Program at the New American Foundation
Description: To help us understand the shifting balance of power at the current intersection of geopolitics and globalization, Director of the Global Governance Initiative, Parag Khanna, will discuss his new book, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, and how the European Union and China now compete with the US to shape world order.
Program Date: March 26, 2008

Mon, April 28

Title: Intelligence Failures: the FBI, the CIA and 9/11
Speakers: Amy Zegart, Professor of Public Policy, UCLA
Description: In her new book, Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11, Amy Zegart argues that many of the failures of the intelligence community in the months leading up to 9/11 can be attributed to an aging organizational structure, not updated or modified to deal with contemporary threats like global terrorism. She contends that the nation’s worst intelligence deficiencies remain the same   

Program Date:  December 13, 2007