Pittsburgh KQV Global Press Conference is the Council's weekly radio show, airing on KQV News Radio AM 1410 on Fridays at  7:30 p.m., Saturdays at 8:30 p.m. and Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

The half-hour program features weekly interviews with special guest experts on a range of foreign policy issues, hosted by Council President Dr. Schuyler (Sky) Foerster.  This program reaches over 26,000 listeners per week.

Program topics and/or times are subject to change.

Global Press Conference Past Interviews: Listen Online or Download Files

Use the links below to listen to our programs online. Or download the files by right-clicking and selecting Save As if you are using a Windows computer or <ctrl> click Save As if you are using a Macintosh.

Trita Parsi, Author of Treacherous Alliance

May 2-4, 2008
Iran: Where do we stand?

Gerald Robbins, Associate Scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute

April 25-27, 2008
Religion and Politics in the Muslim World

Ethan Casey, International Journalist and Author of Alive and Well in Pakistan

April 18-20, 2008
Pakistan: Its People and Future

Amb. John Bruton, EU Ambassador to the U.S., Former Prime Minister of Ireland

April 11-13, 2008
EU-U.S. Ties

Andrew Kuchins, Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS

April 4-6, 2008
Medvedev, Putin, and the Future of Russia

Paul Hughes, U.S. Institute of Peace

March 28-30, 2008
Conflict and Peace: The Middle East

Col. Thomas Evans, U.S. Army & Lt. Col. Mike Sweeney, U.S. Marine Corps Eisenhower Fellows

March 21-23, 2008
The Search for National Security in the 21st Century

Jerry Green, RAND Corporation

March 14-16, 2008
Update on the Middle East

Ambassador Michael Polt, Former Ambassador to Serbia, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the U.S.

March 7-9, 2008
Back in the News: Kosovo and the Still Volatile Balkans

Leslie Wilson, Country Director for Save the Children in Afghanistan

Feb. 29 - March 2, 2008
On the Ground in Afghanistan

Macrina Lelei, Assistant Director, African Studies Program, UCIS, University of Pittsburgh

Feb. 22-24, 2008
Kenya

Steve Clemons, Sr. Fellow & Director, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation Publisher, www.TheWashingtonNote.com

Feb. 8-10, 2008
Foreign Policy Issues in a Critical Election Year

Stuart Hoffman, Chief Economist, The PNC Financial Services Group

Feb. 1-3, 2008
2008 Economic Forecast

Major General Selva, Director, Air Force Strategic Planning

January 18-20, 2008
Strategic Planning and the U.S. Military

Matthew McGrath, Business Consultant in Croatia

January 11-13, 2008
Croatia

Chris Michelmore, Professor, Chatham University

January 4-6, 2008
The Middle East

Paul Hughes, US Institute of Peace

December 28-30, 2007
Iraq and the Middle East

Patrick Clawson, Deputy Director for Research, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

December 21-23, 2007
Nuclear Iran

Dalia Kaye, RAND Corporation

December 14-16, 2007
Dealing with Iran

Richard Rodriguez, Author of Brown: The Last Discovery of America

December 7-9, 2007
A View From the Melting Pot

Minxin Pei, Senior Associate and Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Charles Freeman, The Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and Intl Studies

November 30 - December 2, 2007
China IV

Minxin Pei, Senior Associate and Director of the China Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Charles Freeman, The Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and Intl Studies

November 23-25, 2007
China III

Jan Berris, Vice President, National Committee on United States - China Relations

November 16-18, 2007
China II

David Aaron, Center on Mid East Policy, RAND Corporation

November 9-11, 2007
Update on the Middle East

Bill Overholt Center for Asia Pacific Policy Chair in Asia Policy Research; and Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

November 2-4, 2007
China I

Congressman Tim Murphy, 18th Congressional District, PA

June 1-3, 2007
Ireland and the Peace Process - Part II

Mark Durkan, Social Democratic and Labour Party Leader

May 25-27, 2007
Ireland and the Peace Process - Part I

Ambassador Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Head of U.S. Delegation to the Six-Party Talks

May 18-20, 2007
Six-Party Talks on North Korean Nuclear Program

Larry Wilkerson, Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell

April 13-15, 2007
Focus on the Future, Iraq

Anne Garrels, Senior Foreign Correspondent, Foreign Desk, National Public Radio

Ayub Nuri, Iraqi Freelance Journalist

April 13-15, 2007
Covering Baghdad

Senator Arlen Specter, U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

March 9-11, 2007
The Middle East and National Policy

Congressman Jason Altmire, 4th Congressional District, PA

March 2-4, 2007
Congressional Perspectives

John D. Hofmeister, President, Shell Oil Company

February 16-18, 2007
The U.S., Energy, and the Future

Madeleine Albright, Former U.S. Secretary of State

December 15-17, 2006
The State of Affairs

Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner

November 17-19, 2006
Development, Democracy and Peace

Condoleezza Rice,
U.S. Secretary of State

October 23-24, 2004
U.S. Strategy and Global War on Terror