Listen…. to the BBC World Service!

UPDATE: To listen to the entire discussion, click here and then click on the “listen to the debate” link. On Saturday at 1:00 PM Eastern time I’ll be participating a live debate on the BBC World Service. What’s it about? I’ll let the BBC explain: Ahead of Super Tuesday – the day when 24 US ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

UPDATE: To listen to the entire discussion, click here and then click on the "listen to the debate" link. On Saturday at 1:00 PM Eastern time I'll be participating a live debate on the BBC World Service. What's it about? I'll let the BBC explain: Ahead of Super Tuesday - the day when 24 US states decide on their preferred candidate for the Presidency - BBC World Service and Chicago Public Radio present a major debate on the big election issues live from Chicago on Saturday 2 February. Election 2008: America's Decision - Your Business comes from the Jim And Kay Mabie Performance Studio of Chicago Public Radio and can be listened to live on the BBC World Service website. Presented by the BBC's Claire Bolderson and Richard Steele from Chicago Public Radio, the debate will see four select studio guests and their audience focus on the global economy and foreign policy, internal debate in the US, and the impact on the rest of the world. The panellists are Tom Bevan, editor of the website RealClearPolitics; professor Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago; Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun-Times; and professor Daniel Drezner of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.I believe you can listen to it online as well. Since I wrote my Newsweek column on this issue, there's been some straight news coverage on this from the New York Times, as well as Roger Cohen's recent op-ed. None of these stories cover Chinese perceptions of the campaign. Thank goodness for sexyBeijing.tv!!!: After seeing myriad YouTube clips of geographically illiterate Americans, I have to say it's refreshing to see a U.S. citizen displaying more positive traits. And for those wondering where the title of this post comes from.... well, see below:

UPDATE: To listen to the entire discussion, click here and then click on the “listen to the debate” link. On Saturday at 1:00 PM Eastern time I’ll be participating a live debate on the BBC World Service. What’s it about? I’ll let the BBC explain:

Ahead of Super Tuesday – the day when 24 US states decide on their preferred candidate for the Presidency – BBC World Service and Chicago Public Radio present a major debate on the big election issues live from Chicago on Saturday 2 February. Election 2008: America’s Decision – Your Business comes from the Jim And Kay Mabie Performance Studio of Chicago Public Radio and can be listened to live on the BBC World Service website. Presented by the BBC’s Claire Bolderson and Richard Steele from Chicago Public Radio, the debate will see four select studio guests and their audience focus on the global economy and foreign policy, internal debate in the US, and the impact on the rest of the world. The panellists are Tom Bevan, editor of the website RealClearPolitics; professor Jean Bethke Elshtain of the University of Chicago; Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun-Times; and professor Daniel Drezner of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

I believe you can listen to it online as well. Since I wrote my Newsweek column on this issue, there’s been some straight news coverage on this from the New York Times, as well as Roger Cohen’s recent op-ed. None of these stories cover Chinese perceptions of the campaign. Thank goodness for sexyBeijing.tv!!!:

After seeing myriad YouTube clips of geographically illiterate Americans, I have to say it’s refreshing to see a U.S. citizen displaying more positive traits. And for those wondering where the title of this post comes from…. well, see below:

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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