Alex Bollfrass interviews the Harvard Davis Center's Arvid Bell about creating realistic training environments for foreign policy practitioners. fp21 CEO Dan Spokojny reflects on events in Afghanistan. Transcript Here is a robo-transcript, which likely has errors. Alex Bollfrass Hello, I'm Alex Bollfrass. It's my pleasure to welcome you to Fp 21 minutes, a podcast dedicated to evidence and integrity in foreign policy. We bring new conversations between practitioners and researchers about how American foreign policy is made and how can be made better. This week's guest is Arvind Bell, who lea ..read more

The second part of Dr. Thomas Scherer and Dan Spokojny talking about their article, Foreign Policy Should be Evidence-Based. Transcript Once more made by an error-prone algorithm. Thomas Scherer You and I are not data tyrants, we do not demand everything be measured. If people say that the thing that I'm working on is impossible to measure, That, to me just cannot be true, you're doing something for some outcome, something tangible in the world, it must be possible to measure that in some way. That does not mean it's easy to measure, or it's cheap to measure. Alex Bollfrass Hello, I'm Alex Bo ..read more

Dr. Thomas Scherer and Dan Spokojny discuss their article, Foreign Policy Should be Evidence-Based. Transcript Written robotically. Errors are likely. Alex Bollfrass The fp21 founder and CEO Dan Spokojny is back this week. He is talking with Thomas Scherer, who is the Deputy Director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies at the University of California, San Diego. They are discussing a recent article they co-wrote for War on the Rocks. The link will be in the show notes. And the title is "foreign policy should be evidence based." You will first hear Dan read a favorite selection from t ..read more

Third and final part of the conversation between Dr. Vic Marsh and fp21 CEO Dan Spokojny. Transcript A robot made this and may be mistaken. Vic Marsh I take a very dim view of mandatory discrimination or anti-harassment training. And here's why it involves using just one more logical lens than the man daters like to use. So first, let's try to understand why do we end up with mandatory compliance-driven training programs for some very natural reasons, right? It's perfectly understandable. It's logical in a legal way. So if I'm a lawyer, and I'm looking at the risk that someone's going to get h ..read more

Part 2 of the conversation between Dr. Vic Marsh and fp21 CEO Dan Spokojny. Transcript This transcript was written by a robot. Dan Spokojny I want to follow up on a point that you made about merit and technical skills. It seems one of the vital components of that is to have an apparatus that trains our people productively to be able to perform the jobs that's to them, and to be able to update those skills in response to what works and what needs to be improved. What's falling short. So I noticed this legislation includes a line on a training float, it says the secretary shall develop and submi ..read more

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The second part of a conversation between fp21 founder and CEO Dan Spokojny with Maryum Saifee, who is currently a U.S. diplomat contributing in her personal capacity. Her views do not reflect her institutional affiliations. While on a two-year sabbatical from the foreign service, Maryum was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, Presidential Leadership Scholar, and Truman Center for National Policy Senior Visiting Fellow where she led a 30-person taskforce on State Department reform. Transcript Transcribed by a robot who doesn’t know much about foreign policy. Maryum Sai ..read more

How can evidence improve diversity in the State Department—and what’s at stake for the national interest? The diplomat Chris Le and academic Thomas Scherer in conversation. Episode transcript This transcript was generated automatically. Errors are expected. Chris Le The lack of diversity prevents the department from fully evolved in the face of 21st-century challenges also promotes groupthink and conformity bias. This ultimately harms US foreign policy and hurts the American people. Alex Bollfrass Hello, I'm Alex Bollfrass. It's my pleasure to welcome you to fp21 minutes, a podcast dedicated ..read more

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