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Hosted by Vladimir Bobetic · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 61 episodes
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Frontlines & Backrooms is a documentary-style podcast about the world’s most complex conflicts — told with context, precision, and humanity.Hosted by journalist Vladimir Bobetić, the series blends lived experience, deep research, and unfiltered conversations with historians, activists, diplomats, and eyewitnesses.From conflict zones to corridors of power around the world — this is a space for nuance in a world drowning in noise.No shouting. No spin. No propaganda.Just conversations that matter.
Vladimir Bobetic hosts Frontlines and Backrooms, a news show with 61 episodes published.
Recorded in December 2025, this conversation remains painfully current. Dina Matar, Professor of Political Communication and Arab Media at SOAS University of London, speaks about the role Western media has played in shap
Just days before the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, Dr. Jeremy Shapiro joins Frontlines & Backrooms to discuss the future of the transatlantic alliance. As Washington shifts its strategic focus toward the Indo-Pacific and q
For nearly eighty years, Europe's security rested on one assumption: that the United States would always be there. Today, that assumption is being tested like never before. In this episode, Dr. Nathalie Tocci, Director o
Six months after its original release, we are publishing our complete conversation with historian Benny Morris as a standalone episode for the first time. From the Nakba and 1948 to Oslo, October 7, Gaza, and the future
The war may be over, but the debate has only begun. Drawing on 26 years in US diplomacy and decades of work on non-proliferation, Mark Fitzpatrick joins Frontlines & Backrooms to examine the strategic consequences of the
Less than 48 hours after the signing of Trump's Iran Memorandum of Understanding, the agreement was already facing its first major test. As fighting continued in southern Lebanon and Tehran suspended the Geneva technical
Donald Trump promised a different America. Less intervention. Fewer wars. A new approach to the world. But how much actually changes when administrations change? In this episode of Frontlines & Backrooms, Professor Timot
Billions in US military aid and unmatched air superiority have failed to produce decisive outcomes across the Middle East. Why? In this episode, veteran war correspondent and political analyst Elijah Magnier joins Frontl
For decades, the Balkans were promised a future inside the European Union. Instead, much of the region remains trapped between endless conditions, political dependency, and constantly shifting rules. In this episode, Pro
For decades, the West has viewed Iran through the lens of extremism, nuclear fears, sanctions, and permanent crisis. But beneath the revolutionary rhetoric lies something much older: a civilization shaped by invasion, su
In this episode of Frontlines & Backrooms, historian Omer Bartov joins us for a deeply personal and historically charged conversation about Israel, Zionism, Gaza, historical trauma, collective denial, and the dangerous c
What if unpredictability itself has become a weapon of power? From Richard Nixon’s “Madman Theory” to today’s politics of strategic unpredictability, uncertainty itself is once again becoming a weapon of power. At a mome
Journalist, broadcaster, and founder of On The Line Media, Samira Mohyeddin joins Frontlines & Backrooms for a conversation on the war with Iran, the collapse of Western credibility, Israel’s media strategy, and the grow
Climate change is no longer a future crisis. It is already reshaping conflict, migration, borders, and global stability. In this episode of Climate Wars: The Conflicts of the Future, Dr. Abdullah Fahimi joins Frontlines
Climate change is no longer only an environmental issue. It is becoming a geopolitical, economic, and security crisis capable of reshaping migration, conflict, and political stability across entire regions. In Part I of
The Gulf is no longer stable — but it hasn’t collapsed either. In this conversation with Kristin Diwan, we examine how Gulf states are recalculating their position between the United States, Iran, and Israel, and what th
The ongoing war between the United States and Iran is not just a conflict between two states. In this conversation with Hussein Banai, we examine how political leaders justify escalation without ever naming it, why deter
This week, the line between religion, politics, and power blurred in ways that go beyond headlines. A public clash between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV. Rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. And a fragile ceasefir
The war was expected to last days. Instead, it is reshaping the entire Middle East. In this episode, Mouin Rabbani examines how a conflict that was never meant to escalate is now expanding across the region — from the St
This is one of the most revealing analyses of Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Iran you will hear today. Randa Slim breaks down how Hezbollah operates beyond the “proxy” label, why Lebanon is under pressure from both war and inte
Omer Bartov
Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University
1 appearance on this show
Samira Mohyeddin
award-winning Iranian-Canadian journalist, radio producer · On The Line Media
1 appearance on this show
Mouin Rabbani
analyst on Palestinian affairs and the contemporary Middle East · Palestine This Week
1 appearance on this show
Oona Hathaway
Professor of International Law · Yale Law School
1 appearance on this show
Richard Falk
United Nations
1 appearance on this show
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