The next one-hour broadcast of Talking Foreign Policy occurs at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4. Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Michael Scharf and the program’s panelists will consider the Obama Administration’s nuclear accord with Iran. Congress is expected to debate it soon.
Speakers on the program will consider the accord’s rationale, potential benefits and risks.
The deal potentially provides Iran with relief from economic sanctions in exchange for 15 years of strict international controls on its nuclear program. In Congress, a vote is expected on a resolution disapproving the deal. It will be an uphill battle for Republicans to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to override a presidential veto.
Scharf, director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, created and hosts Talking Foreign Policy, a program produced by Case Western Reserve University and Public Broadcasting Service station WCPN ideastream, FM 90.3 in Cleveland.
Joining Scharf in the discussion are Milena Sterio, professor at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where she is associate dean; Avidan Cover, CWRU associate professor of law and director of the school’s Institute for Global Security Law and Policy; experienced treaty negotiator Paul Williams, president of the Public International Law and Policy Group in Washington, D.C.; and military issues and international law expert Michael Newton, professor at the Vanderbilt University Law School.
The live stream of the broadcast is available at wcpn.ideastream.org/programs/live-wcpn.
A video of the program will be available for subsequent viewing at law.case.edu/TalkingForeignPolicy.