Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
514 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWeekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network.
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Europe in the German Elections
September 19, 2017 10:08 - 29 minutes - 68 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the head of ECFR’s Berlin Office Josef Janning and ECFR's policy fellow Ulrike Franke about the upcoming federal elections in Germany, the parties that are in the running to form a government and the implications for European and foreign policy.The podcast was recorded on 18th September 2017.Picture: Flicker/ Marco Verch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
SOTEU: A vision for the Future of Europe
September 13, 2017 15:57 - 32 minutes - 75.1 MBECFR’s Policy Fellow Ulrike Franke talks with ECFR’s Director Mark Leonard about Jean-Claude Juncker’s State of the Union and Juncker’s – and Mark’s – vision for the future of the EU and Europe. The podcast was recorded on 13rd September 2017.Bookshelf:Mark Leonard, L’Europe qui protège,http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/leurope_qui_protege_conceiving_the_next_european_union Mark Leonard, Why Europe will rule the 21st Century http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/book/why-europe-will-run-the...
The End of the World #9: Interview with Cathy O'Neil
August 25, 2017 15:18 - 36 minutes - 82.6 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Cathy O'Neil, an American mathematician and the author of the blog mathbabe.org and several books on data science.Bookshelf:Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens DemocracyCathy O'Neil's articles on Bloomberg.comThe investigative journalism of ProPublica.org Ho...
The End of the World #8: Interview with Pankaj Mishra
August 23, 2017 09:34 - 37 minutes - 85.7 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Pankaj Mishra, author and writer of literary and political essays.Bookshelf:Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the PresentPankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade AsiaC. A Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons Hosted on Acast. See ...
The End of the World #7: Interview with Yascha Mounk
August 18, 2017 10:33 - 33 minutes - 77.8 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Yascha Mounk, a lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the host of The Good Fight podcast to talk about the sustainability of democracy in the liberal international order.Bookshelf:Yascha Mounk, The People Versus DemocracyRoberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, The Democratic Disconnect, available at: http:...
The End of the World #6: Interview with Carl Bildt
August 15, 2017 11:18 - 36 minutes - 82.4 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Carl Bildt, a former prime minister of Sweden and ECFR's co-chair, to talk about Internet governance and cybersecurity.Bookshelf:Report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, available at: https://www.ourinternet.org/reportInternet Society, available at: http://www.internetsociety.org/ECFR, Europe's Digi...
The End of the World #5: Interview with Mary Kaldor
August 11, 2017 12:45 - 38 minutes - 89.1 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Professor Mary Kaldor, who is Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics, to talk about new wars and foreign interventions.Bookshelf:Christine Chinkin & Mary Kaldor, International Law and New WarsStephen Neff, War and the Law of Nations Hosted on Acast. See a...
The End of the World #4: Interview with Vincenzo Iozzo
August 08, 2017 13:41 - 35 minutes - 80.6 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Vincenzo Iozzo, a research associate at the MIT Media Lab and the co-founder of IperLane, Inc, a cybersecurity company.Bookshelf:Vincenzo Iozzo et al., IOS Hacker's Handbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The End of the World #3: Interview with Parag Khanna
August 04, 2017 12:56 - 37 minutes - 86.9 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Parag Khanna, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Asia and Globalization at the National University of Singapore and best-selling author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order.Bookshelf: Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order How to Run the World: Charting a...
The End of the World #2: Interview with Edward Luttwak
August 01, 2017 09:52 - 34 minutes - 78.3 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Edward Luttwak, a political scientist who has published works on grand strategy, military history, and international relations.Bookshelf:Edward Luttwak, Coup d'État: A Practical HandbookThomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The End of the World #1: Interview with Edward Luce
July 28, 2017 09:23 - 29 minutes - 68 MBFor the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Edward Luce, the Washington commentator for the Financial Times and author of "The Retreat of Western Liberalism".Bookshelf:Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western LiberalismNew York Times, Financial Times, The EconomistThanks to the kind support of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Poland's political crisis: what consequences for Europe?
July 15, 2017 10:18 - 24 minutes - 56.7 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Wawrzyniec Smoczyński, the founder and editor in chief of the magazine Polityka Insight, about the political crisis that shakes Poland and threatens the liberal foundations of its constitutional order.The podcast was recorded on 14th July 2017.Bookshelf:Gary Klein, Seeing What Others Don't. The Remarkable Ways We Gain InsightsPicture: Wikimedia Commons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Discussing political extremism with Brendan Cox
June 29, 2017 15:21 - 31 minutes - 71.8 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Brendan Cox, a humanitarian campaigner and the widower of MP Jo Cox, about his fight against political extremism.The podcast was recorded on 27th June 2017.Bookshelf:Brendan Cox, Jo Cox: More in CommonSheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trouble on the fringes: how to stabilise Europe's neighbourhood
June 22, 2017 17:18 - 26 minutes - 59.8 MBECFR's director Mark Leonard discusses the challenges that Europe faces both in its Eastern and Southern neighbourhoods with Nicu Popescu and Florence Gaub, two Senior Analysts at the EU Institute for Security Studies.The podcast was recorded in Brussels on 21st June 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cybersecurity: what future for international relations?
June 16, 2017 14:58 - 27 minutes - 63.2 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Herbert S. Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security at Stanford University, about cybersecurity, fake news and the future of the Internet. The podcast was recorded on 7th June 2017. Bookshelf:David Clark, Thomas Berson & Herbert S. Lin, At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public PolicyP.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar What Everyone Needs to Know Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Winners and losers in the UK election
June 09, 2017 19:59 - 30 minutes - 68.9 MBThis time, ECFR's director Mark Leonard is on the other side of the microphone and tells you all you need to know about the results of the UK General election.The podcast was recorded on 9th June 2017.Bookshelf:Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a harsh MistressBaron Noir, French drama series, 2016Mark Leonard, Winners and losers in the UK election, http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_winners_and_losers_in_the_uk_election_7295 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
After Paris: how can Europe save the world order from Trump?
June 05, 2017 16:06 - 34 minutes - 78.4 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's Paris office, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and ECFR's Research Director, Jeremy Shapiro, about the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Paris climate deal.The podcast was recorded on 5th June 2017.Bookshelf:Francois Godement, Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global orderRichard Haass, World in Disarray, American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old OrderBen Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree (Rivers o...
The Rise of Jihad in the West: a discussion with Gilles Kepel
May 25, 2017 13:49 - 36 minutes - 84.1 MBIn this special episode, author and terrorism expert Professor Gilles Kepel talks with ECFR's Anthony Dworkin about the factors that gave rise to the network-based 3rd generation Jihad, that has Europe as its main target.The podcast was recorded on 25th May 2017.Bookshelf:Gilles Kepel, Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the WestRory Stewart, The Marches Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Macron-Merkel: Europe’s new power couple?
May 18, 2017 10:56 - 41 minutes - 95.4 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's offices in Paris, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and Berlin, Almut Möller, about President Macron’s newly appointed government, his proposals for the Eurozone and the EU and the future of the Franco-German relation.The podcast was recorded on 17th May 2017 in Berlin.Bookshelf:Andre Wilkens, Der diskrete Charme der Bürokratie: Gute Nachrichten aus EuropaAntoine Garapon & Michel Rosenfeld, Démocraties sous stress - Les défis du terrorisme ...
European Reactions to Macron's Victory
May 12, 2017 09:32 - 48 minutes - 111 MBThis week, rather than putting out our ordinary podcast, we're leaving the floor to Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, head of ECFR Paris, who's hosting a discussion with the heads of most of ECFR's offices from around Europe to look at France and Macron's rise from the outside in.Picture: Flickr/ Lorie Shaull Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
New chaos in the Balkans: what role left for the EU?
May 05, 2017 11:49 - 33 minutes - 76 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the crisis in Macedonia and the bigger picture of political stagnation and chaos in the Balkans, at a time when accession to the EU is losing its credibility in the region.The podcast was recorded on 5th May 2017.To find out more, read ECFR's publication, "Return to instability: How migration and great power politics threate...
Macron vs. Le Pen: the French decide on Europe's future
April 26, 2017 11:11 - 36 minutes - 83.4 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Christine Ockrent, an eminent journalist, and Laurence Parisot, the former head of the main polling company in France, about the second round of the French election where voters are facing a choice that will have enormous consequences for France and for the future of the European Union.The podcast was recorded on 25th April 2017.Bookshelf:Zygmunt Bauman et al., L'âge de la RégressionAnne Nivat, Dans quelle France on vitLaurence Parisot, Un piège bleu Ma...
Brexit means Brexit: implications for Europe of the UK election
April 22, 2017 09:20 - 33 minutes - 62 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Tom Nuttall, author of the Charlemagne column in the Economist, and Susi Dennison, director of ECFR's European Power programme, about May's real reasons for calling elections and the implications for the Brexit negotiations.The podcast was recorded on 21st April 2017.Bookshelf:Alexander Betts & Paul Collier, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee SystemHanya Yanagihara, A Little LifeEmmanuel Macron, RévolutionChristopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels, Demo...
The EU in Trump’s World #4: the reset of the U.S. Asia Policy
April 13, 2017 17:33 - 36 minutes - 83.2 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's research director, Jeremy Shapiro and Asia & China experts Angela Stanzel and François Godement about Trump's Asia policy and the EU's response to it. The podcast was recorded on 13th April 2017.Bookshelf:Bobo Lo, A Wary EmbraceDaniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of IdeasSinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here Dale C. Copeland, Economic Interdependence and WarPicture: Brigett...
What Trump's Syria strike says about his foreign policy
April 07, 2017 13:35 - 25 minutes - 57.3 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's policy fellows Kadri Liik and Julien Barnes-Dacey about Trump's air strikes on Syria and what they mean for the other actors involved.The podcast was recorded over the phone on 7th April 2017.Bookshelf:Anton Shekhovtsov, Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango NoirMaxine David, National Perspectives on RussiaPhilippe Sands, East West StreetPhilipp Howard, Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us UpPicture: U.S. Navy/ Fo...
French election: What happens if Le Pen wins?
March 31, 2017 15:33 - 33 minutes - 77.8 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Manuel Lafont-Rapnouil and Tara Varma from ECFR's Paris office about something that many people hope will never happen: a President Marine Le Pen.The podcast was recorded in Paris on 31st March 2017.Bookshelf:Astrid de Villaines & Marie Labat, Philippot Ier, le nouveau visage du Front nationalMarie Tondelier, Nouvelles du FrontBrice Teinturier, "Plus rien à faire, plus rien à foutre"Picture: Flickr/ Blandine Le Cain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...
Will Turkey's constitutional referendum kill its EU aspirations?
March 24, 2017 16:50 - 31 minutes - 73.2 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Soli Özel, ECFR Council Member and Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and ECFR's Vessela Tcherneva on the upcoming Turkish constitutional referendum and Turkey's EU membership prospects.The podcast was recorded in Brussels on 24 March 2017.Bookshelf:Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the PresentJan-Werner Müller, What Is Populism?Lion Feuchtwanger, The Lautensack BrothersJames Burnham, The Managerial Revolut...
The Intellectual Foundations of Trumpism explained by Julius Krein
March 17, 2017 17:06 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Julius Krein, who has set up the American Affairs Journal with the aim of laying the intellectual foundations of the Trump movement.The podcast was recorded on 17 March 2017.Bookshelf:James Burnham - The Managerial RevolutionF.H. Buckley - The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of AmericaThe Claremont's Review of Bookshttps://amgreatness.com/Find Julius Krein's Journal here: https://americanaffairsjournal.orgPicture: Flickr/Gage Skidmore Hosted on Acast...
German-Turkish Spat: a Storm in a Tea Cup?
March 10, 2017 15:07 - 25 minutes - 57.7 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR's senior fellows, Asli Aydintasbas and Almut Moeller on the German-Turkish diplomatic spat, the forthcoming polls and the bigger picture of EU-Turkey relations.The podcast was recorded on 9 March 2017.Bookshelf:Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the EndJan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of NowhereIvan Krastev, After Europe Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Death Of Expertise?
March 02, 2017 18:08 - 35 minutes - 81.5 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with James McGann, senior lecturer in International Studies and director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR's research director and Kadri Liik, ECFR's senior fellow, on the threats and challenges that think tanks face in a fast-paced, post-truth world.The podcast was recorded on 2 March 2017.Bookshelf:James McGann, The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and GovernanceJames McGann, Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks ...
Debriefing the Munich Security Conference with Wolfgang Ischinger
February 23, 2017 14:33 - 34 minutes - 77.8 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Wolfgang Ischinger, the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. Together they are debriefing a very unusual MSC where the whole idea of the West was at stake.The podcast was recorded on 22 February 2017.Bookshelf:Thomas Schmid, Europa ist tot, es lebe Europa! Eine Weltmacht muss sich neu erfindenWolfgang Ischinger, Deutschlands neue VerantwortungWant to find out more about this topic? Reach for the Munich Security Conference 2017 website here: ...
Discussing EU integration with Alexander Stubb
February 16, 2017 18:17 - 33 minutes - 75.9 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Alexander Stubb, the former Prime Minister of Finland. Together they are discussing the idea of flexible European integration in a post-Brexit environment.The podcast was recorded on 16 February 2017.Want to find out more about this topic? Reach for Alexander Stubb's publications here: http://www.alexstubb.com/publications/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Discussing the Counter-revolution with Michael Ignatieff
February 08, 2017 14:41 - 21 minutes - 49.1 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Michael Ignatieff, the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and one of the most thoughtful historians of liberalism. Together they are looking at the future of the liberal order following Trump's election and the rise of several illiberal powers elsewhere in the world. The podcast was recorded in Vienna on 7 February 2017.Want to find out more about this topic? Reach for Michael Ignatieff's publications here: http://michaelignatieff.ca/writ...
How to respond to Trump's travel ban?
February 01, 2017 12:40 - 32 minutes - 74.3 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with ECFR's Research Director Jeremy Shapiro and ECFR Policy Fellows Anthony Dworkin & Mattia Toaldo how the EU should respond to Trump's decision to restrict access to citizens from 7 predominantly Muslim countries.The podcast was recorded on 31 January 2017.Bookshelf:Walter Russel Mead, The Jacksonian RevoltYuval Noah Harari, Sapiens. A Brief History of HumankindTom Nichols, Death of the ExpertiseFear & Love, at the London Design Museum until 23rd Apri...
The EU in Trump's World #3 - European security & rise of the strongmen
January 25, 2017 17:44 - 27 minutes - 63.4 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with Vessela Tcherneva, Head of ECFR Sofia office, and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş & Kadri Liik, ECFR Senior Policy Fellows, how US President Trump is challenging the European security order along 3 fundamental dimensions: future of NATO, sanctions on Russia and relation with Turkey.The podcast was recorded on 25 January 2017.Bookshelf:Philip Roth, The Plot against AmericaDan Harris, 10% HappierJürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History o...
The EU in Trump's World #2: The big and the small picture of Brexit
January 18, 2017 12:07 - 40 minutes - 92.8 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with Tom Nuttall, Brussels bureau chief for the Economist and Ulrike Franke, ECFR's Policy Fellow, whether the Brexit negotiations will be influenced by the changes to the liberal order unleashed by Donald Trump's election.The podcast was recorded on 17 January 2017.Bookshelf:Zadie Smith, Swing TimeMichael Lewis, The Undoing ProjectBruce Chatwin, In PatagoniaZygmunt Bauman, Liquid ModernityPicture: Max Pixel CC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...
The EU in Trump's World #1: The US out of the Middle East business?
January 13, 2017 17:21 - 46 minutes - 107 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR's Middle East and North Africa Progamme Director, Ruth Citrin, and ECFR Policy Fellows, Ellie Geranmayeh and Hugh Lovatt, on the cards that the EU can play if the U.S. walks away from the table.The podcast was recorded on 13 January 2017.Bookshelf:Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot SeeNaguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley: A NovelAeyal Gross, The Writing on the Wall: Rethinking the International Law of OccupationDeutsche Asset Management, Back...
Are Europe's elections still safe?
January 06, 2017 13:20 - 35 minutes - 81.4 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Policy Fellows Stefan Soesanto, Kadri Liik and Gustav Gressel on Russia's interferences in Western politics.The podcast was recorded on 5 January 2017.Bookshelf:Maurice Paléologue, An Ambassador’s Memoirs Harvey Pitcher, Witnesses Of The Russian Revolution Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin Michael Hayden, Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of TerrorThe GCHQ Puzzle BookYuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Br...
10 Trends for 2017
December 27, 2016 12:05 - 22 minutes - 51.8 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Research Director Jeremy Shapiro for an end-of-year special where they recklessly hold themselves accountable for last year's predictions and take the risk of making 10 more for 2017.The podcast was recorded on 22 December 2016.Picture: Hieronymus Bosch - Der Garten der Lueste Mitte Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Consequences of Aleppo and crisis in Poland
December 21, 2016 17:29 - 45 minutes - 105 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Senior Policy Fellows Kadri Liik, Julien Barnes-Dacey and Anthony Dworkin about the Syrian situation and the prospects of a political solution. This discussion is followed by an interview with Piotr Buras, head of ECFR Warsaw office, on the current political crisis in Poland.The podcast was recorded on 21 December 2016.Bookshelf:Rosa Brooks - How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything. A Reluctant Peacenik View from the Inside of...
Towards a German nuclear option?
December 14, 2016 17:07 - 25 minutes - 58.4 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Christine Ockrent, journalist, Jana Puglierin, head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, and Josef Janning, ECFR senior policy fellow, about the ongoing debate in Berlin on a possible German nuclear deterrent. The podcast was recorded on 14 December 2016.Bookshelf:2016 White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma by John HerzRévolution by Emmanuel M...
Insurgents fall short in Austria but triumph in Italy
December 05, 2016 17:37 - 28 minutes - 21.4 MBECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks with Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of Istituto Affari Internazionali and Wolfgang Schüssel, Austria's former Chancellor, about the polls that were held this weekend in Italy and Austria. The podcast was recorded on the 5 December 2016. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fractures in French society
December 02, 2016 11:40 - 42 minutes - 97.5 MBECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks with author Gilles Kepel about the the primary election results, Islamophobia and challenges to French political identity. The podcast was recorded on the 2 December 2016.Bookshelf:La Fracture by Gilles KepelPicture: Wikimedia/Mardus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Merkel - the leader of the free world?
November 24, 2016 12:30 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with journalist and Angela Merkel's official biographer Stefan Kornelius, and ECFR fellows Almut Möller and Josef Janning, about Merkel's candidacy for her fourth term as German Chancellor. The podcast was recorded on 23 November 2016.Bookshelf:Angela Merkel - The Chancellor and her World by Stefan KorneliusThe Passage to Europe by Luuk van MiddelaarTerror overseas: understanding China’s evolving counter-terror strategy by Mathieu Duchâtel New World Disorde...
Will President Le Pen be next?
November 18, 2016 16:30 - 47 minutes - 109 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR fellow Francois Godement and journalist Chistine Ockrent about the candidates for the French presidential election in 2017. The podcast was recorded on 18 November 2016. Bookshelf:Judas by Amos OzThe Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark LillaRemake the union to heal Europe’s rifts by Nicolas Sarkozy Affaires étrangères by Christine OckrentPicture: Wikimedia Commons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How should Europe respond to President Trump?
November 09, 2016 18:10 - 33 minutes - 75.8 MBMark Leonard speaks with Jeremy Shapiro, Asli Aydintasbas and Josef Janning about reactions to Trump’s electoral triumph from the UK, Germany and Turkey.Bookshelf:In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century by Geert MakThe global crisis and the failure of the West by Carlo MasalaSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariThe everyday and the existential: how Clinton and Trump challenge transatlantic relations by Jeremy ShapiroFear and loathing on the road to the US electio...
Spain’s new government and Brexit High Court ruling
November 04, 2016 16:57 - 31 minutes - 71.2 MBMark Leonard speaks with Cristina Manzano, Editor-in-Chief of the Spanish newspaper Es Global, and Borja Lasheras, ECFR’s director of the Madrid office, about the new Spanish government, which has finally come into place after a year of waiting. In the second part, he speaks with Conor Quinn, ECFR’s Communications Manager, about the recent UK High Court ruling that the British Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU. The podcast was recorded on 4 Novembe...
The blocking of CETA
October 25, 2016 11:24 - 31 minutes - 71.2 MBECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Almut Möller, head of ECFR’s Berlin office, and François Godement, director of the Asia and China programme, about the recent blocking of the trade deal between Canada and the EU by the Belgian Walloons, and what this means for Europe’s governability. Bookshelf:Dies sind die Namen by Tommy WieringaLes tueurs de la Republique: Assassinats et operations speciales des services secrets by Vincent NouzilleThe Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark...
The battle for Mosul
October 21, 2016 15:10 - 27 minutes - 63.9 MBMark Leonard speaks with ECFR Middle East experts, Hayder al-Khoei and Ellie Geranmayeh, who have just returned from Iraq about the battle for Mosul and prospects for post-conflict reconciliation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
European Defence
October 12, 2016 13:40 - 26 minutes - 34.1 MBMark Leonard speaks with former director of the European Defence Agency Nick Witney, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil and Ulrike Esther Franke about European defence in the context of Brexit, increasing defence budgets and proposals for a Schengen of Defence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.