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World Affairs Council of Charleston

Dec 14, 2018

Charleston World Affairs Council member Al Thibault discusses the current U.S.-Saudi crisis. Over the past seventy-five years, few countries have been as central to U.S. foreign policy interests as Saudi Arabia. Despite ups and downs, few issues have been as threatening to this relationship as the fall-out from the...


Nov 16, 2018

Dr. Brian Gangway explains how World War I still shapes our world a hundred years after the guns fell silent. 


Oct 26, 2018

Ambassador Deborah McCarthy, currently with the Academy of Diplomacy, discusses career options in Foreign Affairs.


Oct 26, 2018

 Dr. Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, discusses the state of world democracy with Dr. Brian Norris, Professor of Political Science at the Citadel.


Oct 24, 2018

War in Georgia, Civil war in Ukraine, Crimea annexed, Military intervention in Syria, and cyber-hacking in the U.S. are all tied to Putin's Russia confronting U.S. policy and institutions.

Wayne Merry, Senior Fellow for Europe and and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council discusses these issues in...