In this episode, we speak with Professor Dr. Charles E. Ziegler. He holds a doctorate in Political Science and teaches at the University of Louisville focusing on areas like Russia and Eurasia and the Politics of Oil. He has held fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, Fulbright Program, IREX, and Hoover Institution. Recipient of several prestigious awards himself, he is the Faculty Director of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

His recent books include Civil Society And Politics In Central Asia which released in 2015 and The History Of Russia that came out in 2009, in addition to over a 100 scholarly articles.

Link to scholarly article

A Crisis of Diverging Perspectives: U.S.-Russian Relations and the Security Dilemma by Dr. Charles E. Ziegler

https://tnsr.org/2020/11/a-crisis-of-diverging-perspectives-u-s-russian-relations-and-the-security-dilemma/

Books written by Dr. Ziegler:

The History of Russia

https://amzn.to/3and7Hh

Book recommendations:

Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin

https://amzn.to/38hg09V

The Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

https://amzn.to/38gPjlP

Make Russia Great Again: A Novel by Christopher Buckley

https://amzn.to/36yW8zC

In this episode, we speak with Guillaume Pitron, who is a journalist and documentary film maker who has directed several documentaries related to the exploitation that occurs during the extraction of raw materials, in particular "Boomerang: the dark side of the chocolate bar", “Rare Earth: The Dirty War " and “The Dark Side of Green Energies"

He is also the author of the bestselling book “The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side Of the Energy Transition and Digitization” which won the 2018 Economy Book Prize and the 2019 Turgot Prize for the best financial economics book of year 2018.

Link to Guillaume's book

The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side Of the Energy Transition and Digitization ( https://amzn.to/2RXY1xI )

Link to book recommendations:

Sapiens ( https://amzn.to/2RXXR9A )

Author's website

https://www.guillaumepitron.com/about-guillaume

In this episode, we speak with Mark Schneider, who has often been called a nuclear futurist and a leading proponent and expert in emerging Gen IV Nuclear Technology. He has a Bachelors Degree in Nuclear Engineering and has spent over two decades working with advanced, small-scale reactors within the US Naval Nuclear Power Program. Mark is the proud father of six children and devotes a lot of his time to educating the general public and the policymakers about the implications of Gen IV nuclear technology through his own company.

Research and articles written by today's guest:

https://bit.ly/3kYskBC

Book recommendations:

• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams (https://amzn.to/3kXbDGK)
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini (https://amzn.to/3aDsfyo)
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (https://amzn.to/3hdUDd8)