Talking Foreign Policy Radio Show

Welcome to Talking Foreign Policy, a public radio program produced by Case Western Reserve University School of Law in partnership with Ideastream Public Media.

Launched in 2012, Talking Foreign Policy is a one-hour radio program, hosted by Professor Michael Scharf, in which experts discuss the salient foreign policy issues of the day. It airs quarterly on WKSU 89.7 FM in Cleveland and is webcast live for worldwide listening at Ideastream. Archived broadcasts can be accessed anytime through the links below and the show is also available as a podcast.  

Each episode features a semi-regular cast of pundits, as well as other issue-specific experts, including: 

• The ethicist: Shannon French, CWRU professor of law and professor of philosophy
• The war crimes expert: retired U.S. Army Colonel Jim Johnson, chief prosecutor of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone and director of CWRU School of Law's War Crimes Research Office
• The national security expert: retired U.S. Navy Captain Greg Noone, former head of the Pentagon’s International Law Branch, and an adjunct professor at CWRU School of Law
• The international law expert: Milena Sterio, Distinguished University Professor, Cleveland State University;
• The peace negotiator: Paul Williams, president of the Public International Law and Policy Group
• The human rights authority: Avidan Cover, law professor and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at CWRU’s Frederick K. Cox International Law Center and former attorney-adviser at Human Rights First 

Other regular guests include Harold Honju Koh, former legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State, Mark Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association and Oona Hathaway, president of the American Society of International Law.

Scharf, who served as dean of the CWRU School of Law from 2013 to 2024, is president of the American Branch of the International Law Association and was formerly an attorney-adviser for U.N. Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Send in comments about the show and suggestions for upcoming broadcasts to our panel of experts at TalkingForeignPolicy@case.edu.