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Rising China Plants a Flag in the Middle East / Yasmine Farouk
Yasmine Farouk discusses the impact of China’s mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran on the Middle East and beyond. Early last month, there was an...
Announcing the 2023 Global Leadership Prize Jurors
The Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize has many moving parts, but the jury is the cornerstone of the selection process. Each jury is...
Nous entendez-vous, Monsieur le Président?
French President Emmanuel Macron has had a rough few months. Weeks of sometimes violent protest against pension reform that he eventually imposed by...
Reflections on the Guillotine / Pierre Lellouche
Macron’s dilemma: European sovereignty or alienating allies? Former French politician Pierre Lellouche analyzes Macron’s blunders and their impact...
Walking Blues
Imagine walking 2,000 miles from Honduras to the southern U.S. border, risking robbery, assault, even murder. Why do so many take the risk?...
Slouching Towards Texas (If Not Bethlehem)/ Amelia Frank-Vitale
Anthropologist Amelia Frank-Vitale discusses what it takes to walk from Honduras to Texas, and the tragedies along the way. Human history is a long...
More to Fear than Fear Itself: Does the West really want to win in Ukraine?
Russia’s war on Ukraine has metastasized into a brutal war of attrition. Anna Wieslander, Swedish defense and security expert, clearly worries that...
Is This Any Way to Run a War? / Anna Wieslander
Anna Wieslander has had the temerity to point out that the West has no strategy to end the war in Ukraine. Listen as host Alan Stoga...