The End of the World Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In this new episode of our summer series, ECFR's director Mark Leonard and Policy Fellow Anthony Dworkin talk with Martin Wolf about the economic origins of the populist surge that is undermining the liberal order.
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Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.
Bookshelf: Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis Martin Wolf's columns in the Financial Times, available at: https://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/martin-wolf Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties Wolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Walter Scheidel, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
In this new episode of our summer series, ECFR's director Mark Leonard talks with Anu Bradford about the EU's global power and how it successfully exports its influence to the rest of the world.
Anu Bradford is a professor of international economic law and European Union law at Columbia Law School.
Bookshelf: Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect, The Rise of a Regulatory Superstate in Europe, available at: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context= Mark Leonard (ed.), Connectivity Wars, available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/Connectivity_Wars.pdf
In this new episode of our summer series, ECFR's director Mark Leonard talks with Joseph Nye about power and multilateral institutions.
Joseph Nye is a Harvard University Professor and the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory of neoliberalism.
Bookshelf: Joseph Nye, Is the American Century Over? Joseph Nye, Will the Liberal Order Survive?, in Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb 2017 Issue, available at: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-12-12/will-liberal-order-survive Daniel Deudney G. & John Ikenberry, Realism, Liberalism and the Iraq War, in Survival, Vol 59, No 4, available at: https://www.iiss.org/en/publications/survival/sections/2017-579b/survival--global-politics-and-strategy-august-september-2017-5983/59-4-02-deudney-and-ikenberry-4d9e Dani Rodrik, Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
In this unusual episode of our End of the World series, ECFR's Anthony Dworkin is talking about the migration crisis with Kelly Greenhill, who is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tufts University and Research Fellow at Harvard University.
Bookshelf: Kelly Greenhill, Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy Georg Sorensen, A Liberal World Order in Crisis Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea Duncan Bell, Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire
In this unusual episode of our End of the World series, ECFR's Anthony Dworkin is talking to Michael von der Schulenburg, who has held positions within the United Nations, including assistant secretary-general, for more than thirty years, about democracy and foreign interventions.
Bookshelf: Michael Von Der Schulenburg, On Building Peace
For 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 Democracy Cathy O'Neil's articles on Bloomberg.com The investigative journalism of ProPublica.org
For 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 Present Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia C. A Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons
For 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 Democracy Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, The Democratic Disconnect, available at: http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Foa%26Mounk-27-3.pdf Edward Luce, The Retreat of Liberalism Ivan Krastev, After Europe Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
For 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/report Internet Society, available at: http://www.internetsociety.org/ ECFR, Europe's Digital Power, available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/digitalpower
For 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 Wars Stephen Neff, War and the Law of Nations
For 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
For 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 Course to the Next Renaissance Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
For 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 Handbook Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
For 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 Liberalism New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist
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