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Foreign policy podcasts hosted by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the first pan-European think-tank.
This week in London, Mark Leonard introduced his new book Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail and reflected on what it means to...
This week, Mark Leonard speaks with Zsuzsanna Szelényi , a Hungarian politician and foreign policy specialist, about the forces behind Hunga...
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...
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Szymon Kardaś , senior policy fellow in ECFR's European Power programme, to unpack how war in the Middle Ea...
This week Mark Leonard welcomes Jana Kobzova , co-director of ECFR’s European Security programme and senior policy fellow, to discuss how th...
Mark Leonard welcomes Piotr Buras , Carla Hobbs , Camille Lons , Jana Puglierin and Arturo Varvelli and to discuss how Europe is responding...
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Aziz Alghashian , senior non-resident fellow at the Gulf International Forum, Eran Etzion, former Israe...
This week Mark Leonard speaks to Raja Mohan , academic and foreign policy analyst, in a podcast episode recorded live from New Delhi during...
In this emergency episode, Mark Leonard is joined by Ellie Geranmayeh , deputy director of ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme, Je...
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, negotiations are finally entering a productive phase. Mark Leonard is join...
This week Mark Leonard is joined by Mark Malloch-Brown . Mark is the former president of the Open Society Foundations, former head of the Un...
In this special episode of the World in 30 Minutes, Mark Leonard welcomes Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow Jeremy Cliffe , Senior...
This episode features a live recording of a conversation between ECFR director Mark Leonard and US undersecretary of war for policy, Elbridg...
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Tiago Antunes , Portugal’s former secretary of state for European affairs and senior visiting fellow at...
Mark Leonard is joined by Lea Ypi , ECFR council member and professor in political theory at the London School of Economics, to discuss her...
Mark Leonard is joined by Africa experts Nathalie Delapalme, CEO of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and ECFR council member, Carlos Lopes , honour...
In an emergency podcast episode, Mark Leonard welcomes James Crabtree , ECFR distinguished visiting fellow and former Mumbai bureau chief fo...
In this episode, Mark Leonard sits down with Finnish president, Alexander Stubb , in Davos for a conversation about Donald Trump’s view of U...
Protests across Iran have entered their third week and Donald Trump is said to be considering a military intervention against the Khamenei r...
Following on from January 2nd’s prediction episode, Mark Leonard hosts Julien Barnes-Dacey , ECFR’s Middle East programme director, Alex Vin...
On January 3rd, the US military struck Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro. Trump has declared that America will now “run”...
This week Mark Leonard is joined by Jeremy Shapiro, research director at ECFR, for their annual end-of-year tradition: marking last year’s p...
China’s tightening of export controls on rare earths and related technologies across 2025 marked a turning point in Europe’s economic securi...
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Ellie Geranmayeh , senior policy fellow and deputy head of ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme, a...
America has published its new National Security Strategy (NSS)—and it contains worrying rhetoric about the EU, European values and the trans...
China’s rise has long fascinated policymakers, economists and technologists. But few observers have studied the country’s technological ambi...
The European Council on Foreign Relations turned 18 in November 2025. This milestone offers a unique moment to reflect on the world in which...
In this emergency podcast episode, Mark Leonard welcomes Jana Kobzova , co-director of ECFR’s European Security Programme, and Jim O’Brien ,...
Europe’s most ambitious defence project is in deep trouble. Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS), presented as the crown jewel of Franco...
Across Europe, immigration and integration have become pressing political issues. The far right is surging in national polls, and debates ov...
In recent years, military juntas have replaced democratically elected governments in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. These have expelled Europ...
This week, Mark Leonard returns to the World in 30 Minutes to unpack the latest development in US foreign policy: America’s military buildup...
Donald Trump’s efforts to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine have largely taken a backseat to events in Gaza. But a recent call with Vl...
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Eran Etzion, former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council, and Jamal Nusseibeh, Palestinian leg...
EU enlargement is back at the top of the EU’s political agenda as Russia’s war against Ukraine has transformed it from a bureaucratic proces...
This week Mark Leonard welcomes Célia Belin , senior policy fellow and head of ECFR’s Paris office, to discuss the unprecedented political t...
Mark Leonard welcomes Hugh Lovatt to unpack Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza and what it means for Israel, Hamas, and Europe. This week, M...
In the United States, the political right is undergoing a significant transformation. Once dominated by Reagan economics—characterised by fr...
Mark Leonard welcomes James Crabtree and Suhasini Haidar to explore India’s foreign policy and its emerging relations with Europe. For decad...
Mark Leonard is joined by Ulrike Franke , ECFR senior policy fellow, for an Emergency Room podcast. Together, they unpack the recent wave of...
Mark Leonard welcomes Jana Kobzova to break down the summer’s key developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. This week, ECFR’s director Mark L...
This week, ECFR director Mark Leonard concludes his deep-dive podcast series into the political universe of the “post-liberal revolution”. T...
This week Mark Leonard is joined by Balázs Orbán , Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s (no relation) political director since 2021. He i...
This week Mark Leonard is joined by Hélène De Lauzun, Paris correspondent for the European Conservative and author of L'histoire de l'Autric...
In the second episode of ECFR’s summer mini-series on the “New Right”, Mark Leonard is joined by Gladden Pappin , president of the Hungarian...
This week Mark Leonard is joined by Rod Dreher , a visiting fellow and Network Project director at the Danube Institute in Budapest, and for...
In the second episode of ECFR’s summer mini-series on the “New Right”, Mark Leonard is joined by Yoram Hazony , Israeli political scientist,...
The re-election of President Donald Trump and the recent successes of right-wing parties across the world are posing a challenge to the esta...
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Vessela Tcherneva, deputy director of ECFR, and Maria Simeonova, head of ECFR’s Sofia office, to discus...
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Jeremy Shapiro , ECFR’s research director and head of its US programme, and Tom Wright , senior fellow...