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Listen tonight from 7 - 9pm on KWGS 89.5 FM or online for a special report from NPR: The Trump Administration's First 100 Days

"Foreign Policy Challenges for the New Administration"

Public Radio Tulsa | By Rich Fisher
Published November 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM CST

On this installment of ST, we welcome Dr. Elizabeth Colton, who's still pursuing an active, long-running, and wide-ranging career in diplomacy, journalism, foreign-relations scholarship, and U.S. and international politics and education. Such work has taken her to more than 100 countries; she's taught and/or delivered lectures on six different continents. Last night, Dr. Colton addressed to the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations on the topic of "Foreign Policy Challenges for the New Administration" --- which will be, of course, in this case a second Obama Administration. Dr. Colton is now completing a book on diplomacy, global politics, and the news media with a focus on key "hot spots" in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia --- and she speaks with us today about America's current foreign-policy challenges regarding such "hot spots." (For more on her recent appearance in Tulsa last night, please see this link.)
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Rich Fisher
Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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