The underdog.

How many people can the planet fit?

Walt aims for the non-polemical approach to opening discussion.

Walt applies both a theoretical knowledge about how international politics works and a careful analysis of particular circumstances to untangle or unravel specific puzzles that are facing foreign policy, usually […]

Walt describes how growing up in a priveleged Northern California family with a scientist father cultivated the idea that the highest pinnacle of human achievement doing was something involving ideas, […]

“Economics is a social science.”

“It’s the number of people.”

We should be thinking more about the “we” than just about the “me.”

Democracy in Cuba will be a work in progress for some time.

Better communication gives us a greater global perspective and a greater ability to empathize with those in danger.

It would not be a traditional global leader.

By the overreaction to terrorism.

Darfur, Eastern Congo, North Korea, Burma to name a few.

Roth does not necessarily see it as an advantage.

While there has been evolution in China, tremendous growth is needed.

Roth, on the significance of the Charles Taylor trial.

The U.S. must reestablish its moral authority.

The fear of intervention, says Roth.

Roth talks about terrorism, human rights and war.

After WWII, the US was on of the foremost proponents of human rights.

We are adaptable and instinctive, Roth says.

The two go hand in hand, says Roth.

Beyond what is in the U.S. Constitution, economic and social rights.

It is up to the human rights movement to build the ethical constraints, says Roth.

A basic sense of fairness.

The impact of 9/11 on how we view our own rights.

The human rights movement as a check against governments.

Rapid dissemination of information is changing the human rights world.

Shaming government leaders into doing the right thing.

Roth talks about the dangerous work of human rights workers.