Just World Podcasts
Just World Podcasts is an innovative podcast series on international affairs. In October 2025, we launched a new series titled "Gaza & the World." This series of public conversations hosted by Just World Ed president Helena Cobban explores the many intersections of the continuing Gaza crisis and the current deep shifts in the global balance.
JWP is run by the non-profit foundation Just World Educational.
Just World Podcasts
The Iran Crisis, #2: Bill Quandt on Trump's crazy decisionmaking, Gulf Arab politics, and more
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In this February 26 convo, JWE President Helena Cobban and the veteran Middle East (West Asia) specialist Bill Quandt dissected the perils of Pres. Trump's decisionmaking chaos. They surveyed the possibly catastrophic costs of any eruption of war; explored some possible non-military exits from the crisis; and looked at both the in-region dynamics of the crisis and the possible divergence of U.S. and Israeli preferences regarding it.
This conversation was the second in Part 2 of Just World Ed's ongoing "Gaza & the World" project, which is tracking the still-simmering crisis between the United States and Iran. The first ep was a conversation with Elijah Magnier. Find details and multimedia links to that, here.
New eps in this series are being released at 1 pm ET on each of the following days in both video and audio format. Here are the guests who're already confirmed for the coming week:
- Feb. 27 ~ Ray McGovern
- March 2 ~ Trita Parsi
- March 4 ~ Amb. Chas Freeman
- March 5 ~ Barbara Slavin
Check back at our website www.justworldeducational.org for information on other upcoming episodes that still await confirmation.
