Turkey’s place in Europe
This week Mark Leonard welcomes Aslı Aydıntaşbaş , associate senior policy fellow at ECFR and a fellow at the Center on the United States an...
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Ukraine’s winter of pressure
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Jana Kobzova , co-director of ECFR’s European Security programme, to discuss the mounting pressures fac...
The geopolitics of global hunger
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Cary Fowler , founder and president of the Food Security Leadership Council and former US global food s...
Emergency Room: The AfD’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Jana Puglierin, senior policy fellow and head of ECFR’s Berlin office, in a World in 30 Minutes Emergen...
Maximum pressure on Iran, round two
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Ellie Geranmayeh , deputy director of ECFR's Middle East and North Africa programme, to unpack a volati...
Can a Ceasefire Survive Israel’s Election?
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Hugh Lovatt , senior policy fellow at ECFR, to unpack a turbulent summer in Israel and the Palestinian...
Germany’s second China shock
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Janka Oertel , director of ECFR’s DARE* initiative, and Andrew Small , head of ECFR’s Asia programme, t...
Political crisis in Germany
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Jörg Lau , international correspondent at Die Zeit and Jana Puglierin , head of ECFR’s Berlin office, t...
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...
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 ,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The age of hyperpolitics
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Anton Jäger , lecturer in politics at Oxford University and author of Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization...
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...
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...