2001
DECEMBER
December 17, 2001
French Connection
Ray Suarez looks at the French media company Vivendi, which is rapidly becoming a major player in the U.S. entertainment market. Suarez discusses the company's latest acquisitions with Jim Stroud of the media consulting firm The Carmel Group, and David Bennahum, writer and contributing editor at Wired Magazine.

December 13, 2001
End of a Treaty
Margaret Warner discusses the Bush administration's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with two senators from the Foreign Relations Committee: Chairman Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

NOVEMBER
November 19, 2001
Newsmaker: Jeremy Greenstock
Gwen Ifill talks to the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United Nations about creating a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan.

November 16, 2001
On The Air
Terence Smith reports on Russian President Putin's interview with National Public Radio last night. To listen to the entire interview, visit NPR's online report on Vladimir Putin.

November 15, 2001
New Friends
Margaret Warner examines the new U.S.-Russia relationship with James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense for presidents Nixon and Ford; and Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser for President Carter.

November 5, 2001
Risk Assessment: Russia
Betty Ann Bowser investigates the nuclear risks in Russia and the former Soviet republics.

OCTOBER
October 24, 2001
Newsmaker: Jack Straw
Ray Suarez talks to British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw about Britain's role in the anti-terrorism coalition.

October 4, 2001
Putin's Challenge
A Russian plane crashed in what some worry may have been a terrorist attack. Ray Suarez examines that and other new challenges Russia's leadership faces now with Toby Gati, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research during the Clinton administration, and Marsha Lipman, deputy editor of Russian news magazine Weekly Magazine.

AUGUST
August 30, 2001
Who is a War Criminal?
As Slobodan Milosevic's trial nears, Ray Suarez examines who qualifies as a war criminal with David Scheffer, a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace; Alfred Rubin, professor of international law at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Diane Orentlicher, professor of international law and director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University's Washington College of Law; and Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor and columnist at The Washington Post.

August 22, 2001
Making Peace
Ray Suarez discusses the NATO mission in Macedonia with General George Joulwan, who served as supreme allied commander when NATO sent troops to Bosnia; Kori Schake of the National Defense University; and Ivo Daalder, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-author of "Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo."

August 20, 2001
Russia: Ten Years After
Ray Suarez examines the decade following the collapse of the Soviet Union with James Billington, Librarian of Congress and author of "The Face of Russia;" Marshall Goldman, professor of Russian economics at Wellesley College and Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University; and Katherine Genieva, director general of Russia's State Libraries and president of The Open Society Institute.

August 16, 2001
Newsmaker: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
Recently returned from Moscow, Secretary Rumsfeld discusses the Antiballistic Missile Treaty, nuclear weapons reductions and the future of the U.S. military with Ray Suarez.

August 14, 2001
A Russian View
Ray Suarez looks at U.S.-Russia relations from a Russian point of view with Alexei Arbatov, deputy chairman of the Defense Committee of the Russian Duma and a member of the Yabloko Party, the leading Democratic opposition party in Russia.

August 13, 2001
Making Peace
As Macedonia signs a groundbreaking peace accord, Spencer Michels looks at the negotiations in the former Yugoslav Republic. Then Gwen Ifill discusses the accord with Vasil Babamov, president of the Macedonian American Friendship Association; Ilir Zherka, president of the National Albanian American Council; and Daniel Serwer, senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

JULY
July 24, 2001
The President Abroad
After a background report by Spencer Michels, Margaret Warner discusses President Bush's trip to Europe with Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria; The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel; Weekly Standard senior editor David Brooks; and Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant.

July 11, 2001
Haunted Village
Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the search for war criminals in Yugoslavia.

July 9, 2001
Peace Prospects
Peace talks begin in Macedonia. Margaret Warner talks with Ljubica Acevska, the Republic of Macedonia's first ambassador to the United States; Ilir Zherka, president of the National Albanian American Council; and retired Major General William Nash, who commanded the first U.S. peacekeeping force in Bosnia after the Dayton Peace Accords were signed in 1995.

July 3, 2001
Milosevic on Trial
Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic appears before the International War Crimes Tribunal. Jim Lehrer discusses the trial with Nancy Paterson, former trial attorney at the International War Crimes Tribunal; former foreign service officer James Hooper; and Dusko Doder, coauthor of the biography "Milosevic".

JUNE
June 28, 2001
Pursuing Milosevic
Slobodan Milosevic is on his way to The Hague to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Terence Smith talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

June 18, 2001
Road to the Hague
The extradition of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to the Hague war crimes tribunal began. Ray Suarez talks with historian Charles Ingrao of Purdue University, and Nina Bang-Jensen, special counsel for the Coalition for International Justice, which assists the tribunal.

June 18, 2001
Newsmaker: Condoleezza Rice
Jim Lehrer talks with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about President Bush's trip abroad and his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

June 14, 2001
Global Warming
President Bush clashed with European leaders in a debate over global warming. Terence Smith talks with Terry Anderson of the Hoover Institution; Republican Louisiana Congressman Billy Tauzin; Joe Romm of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions; and Svend Auken, Denmark's Minister of Environment and Energy.

June 13, 2001
Persuading NATO
President Bush met with NATO allies in Brussels to discuss his plans for a missile defense shield. Jacqueline Grapin of the European Institute; Dieter Dettke, affiliated with the German Social Democratic Party; Alexander Pikayev, a member of the Russian Duma; and American defense expert Richard Pearle discuss the summit.

June 12, 2001
A President Abroad
President Bush began his first trip to Europe with a visit to Spain. German journalist Christiane Meier, Sylvie Kauffman of the French newspaper Le Monde, Toby Harnden of London's Daily Telegraph, and Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek International discuss the challenges Bush faces.

June 8, 2001
Ruling Britannia
Incumbent British Prime Minister Tony Blair won a landslide victory for the Labour Party Thursday. Simon Marks reports from London.

MAY
May 15, 2001
Italy's Winner
Right-wing billionaire Silvio Berlusconi has been elected prime minister of Italy, a post he held briefly in 1994. Gwen Ifill talks with Mario Calvo-Platero, U.S. editor of the Milan financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore; Daniel Serwer, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Rome; and author and journalist Alexander Stille.

May 8, 2001
Pursuing Milosevic
Gwen Ifill talks with Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who arrived in the U.S. to press the case for international war crimes charges against Slobodan Milosevic.

APRIL
April 30, 2001
Conversation: Chechnya
Margaret Warner talks with Anne Nivat, author of "Chienne de Guerre," a book about the war in Chechnya.

April 16, 2001
Media Takeover in Russia
Simon Marks reports from Moscow, then Terence Smith talks with Michael McFaul, of the Carnegie Institute for International Peace and Ellen Mickiewicz of Duke University about the uncertain future of Russia's only independent television network, NTV.

April 2, 2001
Milosevic Arrested
Margaret Warner discusses Milosevic's arrest and where it may lead with Dusko Doder, coauthor of the biography "Milosevic" and a former Washington Post correspondent; professor Charles Ingrao of Purdue University who's currently writing a book about ethnic conflict in central Europe; and Nina Bang-Jensen, special counsel for the Coalition for International Justice.

MARCH
March 30, 2001
Foot and Mouth Disease
An epidemic of foot-and-mouth among livestock is creating economic and political turmoil in Britain. Special correspondent Simon Marks reports.

March 26, 2001
Trouble in the Balkans
Ljubica Acevska, former Macedonian ambassador to the U.S.; Ilir Zherka, president of the National Albanian American Council; and Charles Kupchan, of the Council on Foreign Relations discuss the rising tide of violence in Macedonia.

March 23, 2001
The Big Chill?
Stephen Cohen of New York University, Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation, and author Roy Godson of Georgetown University discuss U.S.-Russia relations in the wake of the Mark Hanssen spy scandal and two sets of diplomatic expulsions.

March 15, 2001
Update: Balkan Troubles
Ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Kosovo have turned their attention to Macedonia. Ray Suarez looks at the new conflict brewing in the Balkans with Sonja Biserko, chair of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Yugoslavia, John Hulsman of the Heritage Foundation, and Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institution.

March 14, 2001
Foot and Mouth Disease
More countries joined the ban on imported meat products from the European Union, fearing the highly contagious livestock disease. Ray Suarez talks with Department of Agriculture Chief Veterinary Officer Alfonso Torres and Gerry Kiely, the agricultural counselor for the European Union delegation in Washington.

FEBRUARY
February 27, 2001
Putin and the Press
The ongoing battle between the Russian government and the leading independent media company has some questioning the state of free press in Russia. Terence Smith talks with Ellen Mickiewicz of Duke University.

February 21, 2001
Betrayal of Trust
Margaret Warner follows up on the Robert Hanssen espionage case with former CIA Director James Woolsey, espionage author David Wise, and former FBI counter-terrorism chief Robert Heibel.

February 20, 2001
Spying Charges
A former FBI agent was arrested and charged with espionage. Ray Suarez talks with Paul Redmond, former CIA chief of counterintelligence, and Elaine Shannon, who covers the FBI and Justice Department for Time magazine.

JANUARY
January 31, 2001
Lockerbie Verdict
A Scottish court in the Netherlands convicted a Libyan man in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. Margaret Warner talks with law professor Clare Connelly, who observed the trial; George Williams, former president of the group representing victims' families; Reagan administration counterterrorism expert Larry Johnson, and Lebanese journalist Hisham Melhem.

January 26, 2001
Mad Cow Disease
The United Nations issued a world-wide warning about "mad cow" disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). Paul Miller reports from Europe on the growing number of affected countries.