We live in a bipolar world: United States and Europe on one side; China and Russia on the other. And everyone else is expected to choose one or the...
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Power in the 21st century
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...
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...
Mongolia: Between the Hammer and the Anvil / Undraa Agvaanluvsan
Dr. Undraa Agvaanluvsan, a former member of Mongolia’s Parliament recently explained her country’s challenges in coping with a changing global...
Dialogue of the deaf: Europe and China / Andrew Small
Andrew Small explain how and why he thinks that the Chinese challenge is dramatically and dangerously changing. As recently as September 2021,...
What Does a Franco-German Split Mean for Europe? / Laure Mandeville & Friedbert Pflüger
Laure Mandeville, a senior reporter at Le Figaro and Friedbert Pflüger, a former German parliamentarian joined Tällberg’s Alan Stoga for this...
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Europe Looks at a Complicated Future / Jakob Hallgren & Ana Palacio
Jakob Hallgren and Ana Palacio discuss how Europe might get from where it is to where its citizens need it to be. Arguably, Europe in general (and...
Who is Vladimir Putin? / Philip Short
Listen to Philip Short discuss how Putin looks at the world, what turned him away from a partnership with the West, and the risk that his war could...