Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

Mark Leonard speaks with Justin Vogt, Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs, Professor Mary Fulbrook from UCL, and Dr. Fraziska Exeler, Research Associate and Lecturer at FUB, about how nations deal with the evils of history. Recorded on 31 January 2018.For background reading on FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON THE ROAD events download a complimentary eBook:A Post-American Europe? Liberalism and Transatlantic Relations https://www.foreignaffairs.com/special-edition-ebook?cid=nlc-eve-Events%20-%20FA%20on%20the%20Road%20-%20Berlin-20180117Bookshelf: Meines Vaters Land by Wiebke Brun A model childhood by Christa Wolf A small town near Auschwitz by Mary Fulbrook Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt Jean Améry - Revolte in der Resignation: Biographie by Irène Heidelberger-Leonard Image credit: Bebelplatz Monument by Aaron Siirila [CC BY-SA 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABebelplatz_Night_of_Shame_Monument.jpg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard, Asli Aydintasbas, Kadri Liik and Jeremy Shapiro, discuss Turkey's offensive near the Syria-Turkey boarder, the future of US-Turkey relations and Russia's role in the region.Bookshelf:Johan by Oli Bagel Slow Burn by Slate Paris 1919: Six months that changed the world by Margaret MacMillan 95 theses about technology by John NaughtonPicture credit: Return to Homs by Chaoyue 超越 PAN 潘 licensed under CC BY-NC-DC-ND-2.0 Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pan_chaoyue/16969008478/in/photolist-rRuB2G-mC66kN-oDqfyx-pjTZMi-mC4sxx-mC4uCp-ot4zdL-mC4v2F-mC4vPx-mC4sRD-mC52bg-htm4Jr-fDaaGA-8z473w-86twBc-oZs62R-dWGdNT-p6vQv5-dQotuS-cW27gw-i2oPsA-T9L3Ph-eUqTyu-ph4U7e-mC66HG-i7TpEN-8yZYYt-Ugfw9Q-i2pYv3-UAVyhQ-i32tWW-dkY5Jf-o2AzJt-evqVXG-fjfAYG-o2inNV-skBinf-esBH71-5wTUUZ-i2odwn-i2oURk-9iGGcb-i2ph1f-9gb79Z-d2nAQ1-fFG193-oqPAnP-dKaC67-i2oriV-e38ZTn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks with Wawrzyniec Smoczyński, editor-in-chief of Polityka INSIGHT, about the implications of Poland's government reshuffle and the changes to its constitution. Bookshelf:Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariThe Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall FergusonEurope and its discontents: Poland’s collision course with the European Union by Piotr BurasPicture credit: "Visita del Presidente de Polonia, Andrzej Duda", by Presidencia de la República Mexicana, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks to François Godement and Abigaël Vasselier from the ECFR Asia & China team to get their reactions to President Macron's recent visit to China. They discuss the relationship between Europe and China more broadly, using the findings from their recent publication "China at the gates: A power audit of EU-China relations". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro review the year gone by and predict the 10 foreign policy trends that will define 2018.Picture: Pixabay/Geralt https://pixabay.com/en/users/geralt-9301/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks with Heidi Tworek, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, about the potential damage to content providers that could follow from the US Federal Communication Commission’s decision to discard net neutrality. The podcast was recorded on 18 December 2017.Bookshelf:Everyobody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-DavidowitzPicture: Flickr/amikan_san Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR Policy Fellow Ulrike Franke speaks with Mark Leonard, former MP Douglas Alexander, and ECFR’s Senior Policy Fellow Nick Witney, about Britain’s future vision of EU-UK security cooperation after Brexit. The podcast was recorded on the 13.12.2017 in Berlin.Bookshelf:The Shardlake Series by C. J. SampsonPoverty Safari by Darren McGarveyLecture on David Cameron’s relationship with the EU by Sir Ivan Rogers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Policy Fellows Hugh Lovatt, Ellie Geranmayeh and Julien Barnes-Dacey about reactions to Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the new divergence between Washington and Europe across the Middle East.Bookshelf:The Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks Gaza: Preparing for Dawn by Donald MacintyreNo Knives in the Kitchen of this City: A Novel by Khaled Khalifa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks with Shahin Vallée, former Economic Advisor to the President of the European Council, and to Emanuel Macron when he was French Economy Minister. They discuss what Macron’s plans are for Europe and what it might lead to.Bookshelf:L’Art de perdre by Alice Zeniter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses the launch of PESCO, the latest collective European defence initiative with Senior Policy Fellow Nick Witney and Policy Fellow, Ulrike Franke.The podcast was recorded on 24th November 2017.Bookshelf:George Orwell, Homage to CataloniaPeter Wilson, The Holy Roman EmpireNick Witney, Re-energising Europe's Security and Defence Policy: www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/re_energising_europes_security_and_defence_policyNick Witney, EU defence efforts miss the open goal again: www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_eu_defence_efforts_miss_the_open_goal_againECFR New Security Initiative essay collection: www.ecfr.eu/europeanpower/specials/new_european_security_initiative Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses the consequences of the German political crisis for Germany and for Europe with ECFR's Berlin office director, Josef Janning, and policy fellow, Ulrike Franke.The podcast was recorded on 22nd November 2017.Bookshelf:Ivan Krastev, After EuropeRichard Youngs, Europe Reset: New Directions for the EUH.G. Wells, The War in the Air, available at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/780/780-h/780-h.htm Timothy Garton Ash, "It’s the Kultur, Stupid", in NY Review of Books, December 2017 Issue, available at: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/12/07/germany-alt-right-kultur-stupid/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses the refugee crisis with David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and former British foreign secretary.The podcast was recorded on 16th November 2017.Bookshelf:David Miliband, Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of our TimeEdward Luce, The Retreat of Western LiberalismLisa Maxwell, The Horse Who Walked Through TimePicture: CC/ Wikimedia Commons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses Trump's foreign policy and its global consequences with ECFR's research director, Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR's Russia expert, Kadri Liik and ECFR's China expert, Francois Godement.The podcast was recorded on 10th November 2017.Bookshelf:Stein Ringen, The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st CenturyVladimir Sorokin, Day of the OprichnikGeorge F. Kennan, Russia Leaves the WarJeremy Shapiro, The transatlantic meaning of Donald Trump: a US-EU Power Audit (2017), available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/the_transatlantic_meaning_of_donald_trump_a_us_eu_power_audit7229Jeremy Shapiro, Towards a post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations (2009)available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/towards_a_post_american_europe_a_power_audit_of_eu_us_relations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses peacekeeping in Ukraine and the EU's Russia policy with ECFR's Russia expert, Kadri Liik and ECFR's Ukraine expert Andrew Wilson.The podcast was recorded on 3rd November 2017.Bookshelf:Stephen Kotkin, Stalin, Vol. II: Waiting for Hitler, 1928–1941Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin's War on UkraineYuri Slezkine, The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian RevolutionCarl Bildt, "Is Peace in Donbas possible?", available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_is_peace_in_donbas_possible Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this new episode of our summer series, ECFR's director Mark Leonard and Policy Fellow Anthony Dworkin talk with Martin Wolf about the economic origins of the populist surge that is undermining the liberal order.**Disclaimer: Imperfect audio qualityMartin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.Bookshelf:Martin Wolf, The Shifts and the Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis Martin Wolf's columns in the Financial Times, available at: https://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/martin-wolfStephen King, Sleeping BeautiesWolfgang Streeck, Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic CapitalismWalter Scheidel, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses the state of the transatlantic relations with Jan Techau, director of the Richard Holbrook Forum at the American Academy in Berlin.The podcast was recorded on 25th October 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this new episode of our summer series, ECFR's director Mark Leonard talks with Anu Bradford about the EU's global power and how it successfully exports its influence to the rest of the world.Anu Bradford is a professor of international economic law and European Union law at Columbia Law School.Bookshelf:Anu Bradford, The Brussels Effect, The Rise of a Regulatory Superstate in Europe, available at: http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1081&context=Mark Leonard (ed.), Connectivity Wars, available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/Connectivity_Wars.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses the major takeways from China's 19th Party Congress with ECFR’s head of Asia & China programme François Godement and China expert Jérôme Doyon.The podcast was recorded on 20th October 2017.Bookshelf:Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After MaoJean-Paul Kauffmann, Outre-Terre: Le Voyage a EylauAngela Stanzel (ed.), "Grand Designs: Does China have a ‘Grand Strategy’?", available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/grands_designs_does_china_have_a_grand_strategyMathieu Duchâtel, "EU should host US-China contingency talks on North Korean nuclear crisis", available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_eu_should_host_us_china_contingency_talks_on_north_korean_nuclea Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR’s head of MENA programme Ruth Citrin and Iran expert Ellie Geranmayeh about the consequences of Trump's decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal and the responses that Europe can make to avert another nuclear crisis.The podcast was recorded on 13th October 2017.Bookshelf:Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldDeidre Berger et al., ‘In Spite of It All, America’, in the New York Times and Die Zeit, available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/world/europe/germany-united-states-trump-manifesto.html?ribbon-ad-idx=5&rref=world/europe&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Europe&pgtype=article Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this new episode of our summer series, ECFR's director Mark Leonard talks with Joseph Nye about power and multilateral institutions.Joseph Nye is a Harvard University Professor and the co-founder, along with Robert Keohane, of the international relations theory of neoliberalism.Bookshelf:Joseph Nye, Is the American Century Over?Joseph Nye, Will the Liberal Order Survive?, in Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb 2017 Issue, available at: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-12-12/will-liberal-order-surviveDaniel Deudney G. & John Ikenberry, Realism, Liberalism and the Iraq War, in Survival, Vol 59, No 4, available at: https://www.iiss.org/en/publications/survival/sections/2017-579b/survival--global-politics-and-strategy-august-september-2017-5983/59-4-02-deudney-and-ikenberry-4d9eDani Rodrik, Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s Anthony Dworkin is joined by Gary Gibbon, the political editor of Channel 4 News, and Susi Dennison, the head of ECFR's European Power programme, to discuss what the Tories, Britain and the EU want after Brexit.The podcast was recorded on 6th October 2017.Bookshelf:Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep EstablishmentIvan Krastev, After EuropeGraham Stewart, Burying Caesar : Churchill, Chamberlain And The Battle For The Tory Party Gary Younge, Another Day in the Death of AmericaOona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro, The InternationalistsPicture: Wikimedia Commons/Ilovetheeu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this unusual episode of our End of the World series, ECFR's Anthony Dworkin is talking about the migration crisis with Kelly Greenhill, who is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Tufts University and Research Fellow at Harvard University. Bookshelf:Kelly Greenhill, Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign PolicyGeorg Sorensen, A Liberal World Order in CrisisMark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous IdeaDuncan Bell, Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the heads of ECFR's Paris and Berlin offices, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil and Josef Janning about Macron's speech and his vision for the European Union.The podcast was recorded on 26th September 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR’s U.N. expert Richard Gowan about Trump and Macron's addresses at the UNGA, the Korean nuclear crisis, the Iran deal and the Syrian peace process.The podcast was recorded on 21st September 2017.Bookshelf:John Le Carré, A Legacy of SpiesHillary Clinton, What HappenedZygmunt Bauman, RetrotopiaPicture: Kremlin.ru Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this unusual episode of our End of the World series, ECFR's Anthony Dworkin is talking to Michael von der Schulenburg, who has held positions within the United Nations, including assistant secretary-general, for more than thirty years, about democracy and foreign interventions.Bookshelf:Michael Von Der Schulenburg, On Building Peace Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the head of ECFR’s Berlin Office Josef Janning and ECFR's policy fellow Ulrike Franke about the upcoming federal elections in Germany, the parties that are in the running to form a government and the implications for European and foreign policy.The podcast was recorded on 18th September 2017.Picture: Flicker/ Marco Verch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s Policy Fellow Ulrike Franke talks with ECFR’s Director Mark Leonard about Jean-Claude Juncker’s State of the Union and Juncker’s – and Mark’s – vision for the future of the EU and Europe. The podcast was recorded on 13rd September 2017.Bookshelf:Mark Leonard, L’Europe qui protège,http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/leurope_qui_protege_conceiving_the_next_european_union Mark Leonard, Why Europe will rule the 21st Century http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/book/why-europe-will-run-the-21st-century/9781586484248Picture: Flicker/ Euractiv Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Cathy O'Neil, an American mathematician and the author of the blog mathbabe.org and several books on data science.Bookshelf:Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens DemocracyCathy O'Neil's articles on Bloomberg.comThe investigative journalism of ProPublica.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Pankaj Mishra, author and writer of literary and political essays.Bookshelf:Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the PresentPankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade AsiaC. A Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Yascha Mounk, a lecturer on Government at Harvard University and the host of The Good Fight podcast to talk about the sustainability of democracy in the liberal international order.Bookshelf:Yascha Mounk, The People Versus DemocracyRoberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, The Democratic Disconnect, available at: http://www.journalofdemocracy.org/sites/default/files/Foa%26Mounk-27-3.pdfEdward Luce, The Retreat of LiberalismIvan Krastev, After EuropeGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Carl Bildt, a former prime minister of Sweden and ECFR's co-chair, to talk about Internet governance and cybersecurity.Bookshelf:Report of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, available at: https://www.ourinternet.org/reportInternet Society, available at: http://www.internetsociety.org/ECFR, Europe's Digital Power, available at: http://www.ecfr.eu/digitalpower Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Professor Mary Kaldor, who is Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics, to talk about new wars and foreign interventions.Bookshelf:Christine Chinkin & Mary Kaldor, International Law and New WarsStephen Neff, War and the Law of Nations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Vincenzo Iozzo, a research associate at the MIT Media Lab and the co-founder of IperLane, Inc, a cybersecurity company.Bookshelf:Vincenzo Iozzo et al., IOS Hacker's Handbook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Parag Khanna, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Asia and Globalization at the National University of Singapore and best-selling author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order.Bookshelf: Parag Khanna, The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Edward Luttwak, a political scientist who has published works on grand strategy, military history, and international relations.Bookshelf:Edward Luttwak, Coup d'État: A Practical HandbookThomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the rest of the summer Mark Leonard will be breaking from the usual World in 30 Minutes format to talk about how the global order is being challenged. This week, he is joined by Edward Luce, the Washington commentator for the Financial Times and author of "The Retreat of Western Liberalism".Bookshelf:Edward Luce, The Retreat of Western LiberalismNew York Times, Financial Times, The EconomistThanks to the kind support of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Wawrzyniec Smoczyński, the founder and editor in chief of the magazine Polityka Insight, about the political crisis that shakes Poland and threatens the liberal foundations of its constitutional order.The podcast was recorded on 14th July 2017.Bookshelf:Gary Klein, Seeing What Others Don't. The Remarkable Ways We Gain InsightsPicture: Wikimedia Commons Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Brendan Cox, a humanitarian campaigner and the widower of MP Jo Cox, about his fight against political extremism.The podcast was recorded on 27th June 2017.Bookshelf:Brendan Cox, Jo Cox: More in CommonSheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR's director Mark Leonard discusses the challenges that Europe faces both in its Eastern and Southern neighbourhoods with Nicu Popescu and Florence Gaub, two Senior Analysts at the EU Institute for Security Studies.The podcast was recorded in Brussels on 21st June 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Herbert S. Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security at Stanford University, about cybersecurity, fake news and the future of the Internet. The podcast was recorded on 7th June 2017. Bookshelf:David Clark, Thomas Berson & Herbert S. Lin, At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public PolicyP.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar What Everyone Needs to Know Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time, ECFR's director Mark Leonard is on the other side of the microphone and tells you all you need to know about the results of the UK General election.The podcast was recorded on 9th June 2017.Bookshelf:Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a harsh MistressBaron Noir, French drama series, 2016Mark Leonard, Winners and losers in the UK election, http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_winners_and_losers_in_the_uk_election_7295 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's Paris office, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and ECFR's Research Director, Jeremy Shapiro, about the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Paris climate deal.The podcast was recorded on 5th June 2017.Bookshelf:Francois Godement, Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global orderRichard Haass, World in Disarray, American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old OrderBen Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London Novels)Michael Anton, America and the Liberal International Order, in American Affairs Volume I, Number 1 (Spring 2017): 113–25. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode, author and terrorism expert Professor Gilles Kepel talks with ECFR's Anthony Dworkin about the factors that gave rise to the network-based 3rd generation Jihad, that has Europe as its main target.The podcast was recorded on 25th May 2017.Bookshelf:Gilles Kepel, Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the WestRory Stewart, The Marches Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's offices in Paris, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and Berlin, Almut Möller, about President Macron’s newly appointed government, his proposals for the Eurozone and the EU and the future of the Franco-German relation.The podcast was recorded on 17th May 2017 in Berlin.Bookshelf:Andre Wilkens, Der diskrete Charme der Bürokratie: Gute Nachrichten aus EuropaAntoine Garapon & Michel Rosenfeld, Démocraties sous stress - Les défis du terrorisme globalL'imaginaire historique d'Emmanuel Macron, a France Culture podcast available here: https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/limaginaire-historique-demmanuel-macronPicture: Facebook/ Emmanuel Macron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, rather than putting out our ordinary podcast, we're leaving the floor to Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, head of ECFR Paris, who's hosting a discussion with the heads of most of ECFR's offices from around Europe to look at France and Macron's rise from the outside in.Picture: Flickr/ Lorie Shaull Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the crisis in Macedonia and the bigger picture of political stagnation and chaos in the Balkans, at a time when accession to the EU is losing its credibility in the region.The podcast was recorded on 5th May 2017.To find out more, read ECFR's publication, "Return to instability: How migration and great power politics threaten the Western Balkans" here: http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/return_to_instability_6045Bookshelf:Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an EggAnne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Christine Ockrent, an eminent journalist, and Laurence Parisot, the former head of the main polling company in France, about the second round of the French election where voters are facing a choice that will have enormous consequences for France and for the future of the European Union.The podcast was recorded on 25th April 2017.Bookshelf:Zygmunt Bauman et al., L'âge de la RégressionAnne Nivat, Dans quelle France on vitLaurence Parisot, Un piège bleu MarineChristine Ockrent, Who is Marine Le Pen? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Tom Nuttall, author of the Charlemagne column in the Economist, and Susi Dennison, director of ECFR's European Power programme, about May's real reasons for calling elections and the implications for the Brexit negotiations.The podcast was recorded on 21st April 2017.Bookshelf:Alexander Betts & Paul Collier, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee SystemHanya Yanagihara, A Little LifeEmmanuel Macron, RévolutionChristopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive GovernmentMichael Gove, Now we’ll find out what Mayism stands for, The Times, 21st April 2017Picture: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's research director, Jeremy Shapiro and Asia & China experts Angela Stanzel and François Godement about Trump's Asia policy and the EU's response to it. The podcast was recorded on 13th April 2017.Bookshelf:Bobo Lo, A Wary EmbraceDaniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of IdeasSinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here Dale C. Copeland, Economic Interdependence and WarPicture: Brigette Supernova/ The Daily Beast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's policy fellows Kadri Liik and Julien Barnes-Dacey about Trump's air strikes on Syria and what they mean for the other actors involved.The podcast was recorded over the phone on 7th April 2017.Bookshelf:Anton Shekhovtsov, Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango NoirMaxine David, National Perspectives on RussiaPhilippe Sands, East West StreetPhilipp Howard, Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us UpPicture: U.S. Navy/ Ford Williams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.