Dr. Paul Craig Roberts

• In addition to having held numerous senior academic positions in universities, Dr. Roberts was an associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and was appointed by President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy during Reagan's first term in office, following which he served as a consultant to both the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

• Dr. Roberts is now the Chairman of the The Institute for Political Economy.(http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/)

Items mentioned in (or otherwise relevant to) the interview

• Francis Fukutama, The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, (re-issue edn., March 1, 2006)
• Marc Weller, "Analysis: Why Russia's Crimea move fails legal test", BBC News (7 March 2014)
• Victoria Nuland (US Assistant Secretary of State) and US ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt leaked telephone conversation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv7qy7jot30) [contains profanity]
• Victoria Nuland's address at the National Press Club in December 2013 in which she says that Washington has "invested" over $5 billion in "supporting" democracy in the Ukraine
• Moscow's ambassador to the EU: "Ukraine crisis: Nobody should fear Russia, ambassador says" BBC News (23 March 2014)
• Vladimir Putin's 18 March speech at the Kremlin (with annotations by dyed-in-the-wool BBC reporter Bridget Kendall): "Crimea crisis: Russian President Putin's speech annotated", BBC News (19 March 2014)
• On the snipers: "Leaked: Kiev snipers hired by Maidan leaders - Estonian FM to EU's Ashton", RT YouTube Channel (5 March 2014)
• Keir A. Lieber & Daryl G. Press, "The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy", Foreign Affairs (April 2006)
• Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Harper Perennial (March 18, 2014)

Acknowledgements

Podcast theme music, Chillout Me, kindly provided by Antony Raijekov, from his Jazz U compilation (CC BY-NC 2.5).

Slideshow image: "Obama Putin Faceoff - Caricatures" by DonkeyHotey on Flickr (CC BY 2.0); cropped, re-sized