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Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

Foreign policy podcasts hosted by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the first pan-European think-tank.

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Latin America’s new imaginaries

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Adriana Abdenur, a Brazilian policy expert and co-president of the Global Fund for a New Economy, and J...

34:43Aug 7, 2026

Defining Modernity in South-East Asia

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by LuHan Gabel , associate director of the Ideas Workshop at the Open Society Foundations; Ooi Kee Beng ,...

39:33Jul 31, 2026

The China-native generation

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Loubna El Amine , lecturer in political theory at King’s College London and affiliate of the Lau China...

39:48Jul 24, 2026

European defence after the NATO summit

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Camille Grand , secretary general of ASD Europe and special adviser to ECFR’s European Security programme,...

37:06Jul 17, 2026

Marine Le Pen’s comeback

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Célia Belin , head of ECFR’s Paris office and senior policy fellow, and Jeremy Cliffe , ECFR’s editorial di...

31:35Jul 9, 2026

The China challenge

This week, Mark Leonard speaks to Mike Kuiken , vice chair of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and Randy Schriver , cha...

25:26Jul 3, 2026

British politics ten years after Brexit

It is ten years since Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, and the country is once again facing political upheaval. Keir Starmer...

32:04Jun 26, 2026

Peace in the Middle East

This week, Julien Barnes-Dacey welcomes Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud , Saudi Arabia’s minister of foreign affairs, for a fireside chat a...

29:24Jun 18, 2026

How progress ends

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Carl Benedikt Frey , associate professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute and author of How...

28:43Jun 12, 2026

The age of hyperpolitics

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Anton Jäger , lecturer in politics at Oxford University and author of Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization...

32:09Jun 5, 2026

The rise of populism

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Liam Byrne , a British Labour Party MP and chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committe...

36:33May 29, 2026

Iran nuclear monitor: Month by month

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Kelsey Davenport , director for non-proliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, and Ellie Ger...

21:40May 22, 2026

The future of liberalism

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Curtis Yarvin , American blogger and political thinker, to talk about the ideas reshaping parts of the Amer...

41:12May 15, 2026

Rethinking democracy

This week, Mark Leonard is joined by David Runciman , British political theorist and philosopher, to explore whether today’s sense of crisis...

36:41May 8, 2026

The age of unorder

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Ayşe Zarakol , professor of international relations at Cambridge University, to explore whether today’s glo...

25:01May 1, 2026

Surviving chaos

This week in London, Mark Leonard introduced his new book Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail and reflected on what it means to...

1:13:40Apr 24, 2026

Hungary after Orbán

This week, Mark Leonard speaks with Zsuzsanna Szelényi , a Hungarian politician and foreign policy specialist, about the forces behind Hunga...

39:28Apr 17, 2026

Ceasefire in Iran

For the last few days, a set of pronouncements from the White House have filled the news regarding the war in Iran. President Donald Trump h...

32:23Apr 10, 2026

What the Iran war means for Ukraine

This week Mark Leonard welcomes Jana Kobzova , co-director of ECFR’s European Security programme and senior policy fellow, to discuss how th...

22:05Mar 27, 2026