Harvard International Roundtable

About Harvard International Roundtable

On the Harvard International Roundtable our hosts discuss, dissect, and deliberate some of the latest articles written for the Harvard International Review, a quarterly journal offering insight on international affairs from the perspectives of scholars, leaders, and policymakers, started by undergraduates at Harvard in 1979.

Publisher

Harvard International Review

Category

education · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Sept 2025

Latest episode

8 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Apr 2026

   S2E2 [double length special] - A Discussion of Korean Nuclear Policy and Medical Tourism

   On this episode, our hosts are joined by HIR authors Jesse Garcia and Lucille Nomaguchi-Long to discuss their respective articles on Korean nuclear policy and the future of medical tourism.

2. 

   11 Mar 2026

   S2E1 - Meet the 2026 Editors-in-Chief

   In this episode, our hosts, Ames and Lizzie, talk to the 2026 Editors-in-Chief of the Harvard International Review. William and Cate share a bit about themselves, along with goals for the Review.

3. 

   8 Mar 2026

   S1E4 - Democratic Decline: A New Generation and the Pakistan Example

   In this episode, our hosts discuss declining democratic beliefs among young people in Europe and democratic backsliding in Pakistan.

4. 

   8 Mar 2026

   S1E5 - Diplomacy in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Denmark and Ireland

   In this episode, our hosts discuss Denmark's and Ireland's approaches to diplomacy in the 21st century, based on interviews with the Former Prime of Ireland, Minister Leo Varadkar, and the Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, Rufus Gifford.

5. 

   28 Oct 2025

   S1E3 - Leadership and Moral Responsibility in the 21st Century: Animal Testing and an Interview with President Tómasdóttir

   In this episode, our hosts discuss the ethics of animal testing, from Elon Musk’s Neuralink to the cosmetics industry in China, asking how global laws can influence how we innovate, and an interview conducted by associate editor Jake Truncale with Halla Tómasdóttir, Iceland's newly elected president.

6. 

   13 Oct 2025

   S1E2 - Transparency and Trust: Meta's Fact-Checking Decision and an Electricity Crisis in South Africa

   In this episode our hosts discuss Meta’s decision to end professional fact-checking on its platforms and South Africa’s electricity crisis and its impact on the country’s 2024 elections.

7. 

   29 Sept 2025

   S1E1 - From Uruguay to the Sahel: Democracy in the Age of Information

   In this episode, we discuss Uruguay's democracy as a potential model for stability in Latin America and Russia's influence and soft power in the Sahel region of Africa.

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