Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies:...
Is it the End of Democracy?
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What’s Next for the Climate: A Post Glasgow Perspective
No one is better positioned to answer those questions than Denmark's Climate Ambassador Tomas Anker Christensen. Tomas was deeply engaged in the...
Rave On: A New Saudi Arabia?
A Conversation with Neil Quilliam Imagine hundreds of thousands of young men and women, partying through four days and nights in the desert. Where? ...
Saving Democracy, One New Leader at a Time
Alice Barbe, a French political activist, recently shared her ideas, hopes and solutions on how politics ought to work. Do you think she is headed...
Ukraine: Between a Rock and a (Not Very) Hard Place
A conversation with Constanze Stelzenmüller During the past months, Russia has steadily ratcheted up military pressure on Ukraine and tried to...
Will There Be War? / Constanze Stelzenmüller
Listen as Constanze Stelzenmüller—an expert on Germany, geopolitics and trans-Atlantic relations - shares her views on what is at stake. Hostile...
Looking for Change in All the Right Places: The New Middle East
What's going on? Has the Middle East of strict Islam suddenly turned into something more modern? Listen to Neil Quilliam, a deeply knowledgeable,...
Democrats Versus Dictators: Who will Win?
The world as seen from Washington or Paris or Berlin looks starkly different than the one seen from Moscow or Beijing or Teheran or Caracas. The...
Are the Bad Guys REALLY Winning?
Listen as Anne Applebaum discusses how this new world(dis) order might evolve. What does she mean by “the 21st century is, so far, a story of the...