On Peace

About On Peace

U.S. Institute of Peace experts discuss the latest foreign policy issues from around the world in this brief weekly collaboration with SiriusXM‘s POTUS Channel 124. In about 10 minutes, each episode of On Peace distills the most important aspects of a pressing peace and conflict challenge and highlights how the U.S. and international community might respond.

Publisher

U.S. Institute of Peace

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Sept 2017

Latest episode

12 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

351 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Mar 2025

   Mary Speck on China’s Search for Inroads into Central America

   China has ramped up its engagement in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador so that it can “operate in the United States’ backyard,” says USIP’s Mary Speck. However, China “likes to give showy gifts, but hasn’t really invested” in what the region needs to address governance issues, economic instability and organized crime.

2. 

   5 Mar 2025

   Jason Tower on How China-Backed Scam Groups Threaten U.S. Interests

   Transnational scams based out of Southeast Asia are increasingly targeting American citizens in a trend that is being “increasingly compared to fentanyl in terms of the impacts on the U.S.,” says USIP’s Jason Tower, adding that since the crime syndicates have close ties with China, we should be “pushing China on this issue to hold it accountable.”

3. 

   25 Feb 2025

   Dean Cheng on China’s Bid for Dominance in Space

   As China works to establish “a space Silk Road” through space partnerships in Africa, “There is real reason to question whether Chinese behavior in space is going to be similar” to Beijing’s current disregard for international laws around issues such as maritime territorial claims and intellectual property rights, says USIP’s Dean Cheng.

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

26,416,549

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.1 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100

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Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

82

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