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Political scientist Janice Stein is one of Canada's - and the world's - foremost authorities on global affairs. Each week on the Disrupting the Global Order, Stein leads a conversation with...
Foreign and domestic policy in the United States seem to have melted down. The President's major domestic policy initiative – repeal and rep...

Digital technologies and platforms are connecting people across space and time in new and disruptive ways. Amazon is the world's largest sho...

The Middle East is now principally an exporter of conflict to the rest of the world. It has lost its strategic position in world oil markets...

President Trump continues to challenge his allies as well as his adversaries. He withdrew the United States from the Paris agreement and res...

American democracy is under siege, or so it seems. The president consistently attacks the legitimacy of the courts and the media -- two esse...

Politics across the developed world has been boiling over with anger and frustration. People are angry about the growing gap between the ver...

We all sense that the international order that emerged at the end of the Cold War is fracturing. The United States is turning inwards, China...

We live in angry times. People are angry because they don't share the prosperity and opportunities that other have. They're cynical because...

Terrorists, acting in the name of Daesh or the Islamic State, attacked Britain three times in three months, targeting young girls and civili...

Driverless cars are coming. Google already has prototypes and other companies are in hot pursuit. Experts tell us that within a decade, driv...

Last week, we explored with Steven Sloman his revolutionary approach to thinking. Thinking, he tells us, is a social activity that we do wit...

Fake news is the big story in Europe and the United States, and that's left many voters incapable of knowing the difference between fact and...

Europe is in the middle of an existential crisis. The United States is struggling to find out who it is under President Donald Trump. The Mi...

Europe is mired in a crisis about its future. The United States is led by a president that is shaking up the system in unprecedented ways. N...

The end of Europe is upon us. A Europe of peace, prosperity and democracy is falling apart. So says our guest today. He warns Europe is incr...

The Trump administration, elected on a wave of populism, has moved at a rapid fire pace to disrupt the global order. Most controversial has...

The wave of populism that has swept through the United States and Europe has been a shock to many who did not foresee the impending disrupti...

Corruption is routinely the focus of front page stories in mature democracies as well as in younger democracies. Astonishing stories come to...

The Islamic State is unique among militant Islamic movements in recent history. Born in the chaos that followed the American invasion of Ira...

World trade is declining. President Trump is questioning long-standing strategic alliances that have lasted for more than 60 years. Populist...

Never in human history has there been such opportunity for freedom of expression, one of the core freedoms at the centre of our liberal demo...

Insurgencies have been around for thousands of years, going back to at least Roman times. A look at history tells us that, far more often th...

A wave of populism has swept through Britain and the United States, and is now sweeping through Europe. There are four critical elections in...

The Trump administration enters the White House as two great powers – Russia and China – are flexing their muscles. Russia is still smarting...

Much of what we have taken for granted for the last half century is now in question as populist movements sweep through the United States an...

In its first few weeks, the Trump administration moved at a rapid fire pace to disrupt the global order. The reaction was predictable. Trump...

Who would have imagined that we'd be disputing the fact of "facts"? Yet, the Trump administration routinely accuses the media and its oppone...

Growing inequality has driven, both indirectly and indirectly, the wave of populist protest that has swept through the developed world in th...

For the last fifteen years, the western world has been transfixed by Islamic terrorism that has struck at its geography, its morality, and i...

One of the most disruptive forces, a force that has shaken the global order in the last few decades, is Islamism. In his new book Islamic Ex...

All presidents begin their terms of office with determination to bend the world to the arc of their narrative. But quite quickly, the world...

Donald Trump promises to be the most disruptive president of the United States since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected in 1932. Like Roo...

For more than 300 years, nation-states dominated international conflict and shaped world order. They used all the instruments they had to ma...

The Internet has revolutionized the way we access, communicate, store and share knowledge, but it has been much less successful in providing...

Great powers have a unique capacity to disrupt the global order. No major leader promises to do so as systematically as Donald Trump. In a v...

Nothing has been more disruptive to global order in this last decade than the global economy. The financial crisis that began in the United...

No country has greater capacity to disrupt the global order than China. Despite the slowdown in its economy, China is the world's largest ec...

In this first episode of Disrupting the Global Order , host Janice Stein begins with the biggest power of all - the United States. China is...

In this new podcast, host Janice Stein looks at the forces that are disrupting the global order. From religion and technology to economics a...