Global Futures

Global Futures is a podcast about global politics and how rising powers like China and India are changing it. We discuss foreign policy, economics, war and peace, and how the world is changing with experts from across the world.

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Thomas Gomart: France. A Balancing Power on the Global Stage?

President Emmanuel Macron is the first foreign leader to be invited for a state visit to the US under the Trump administration. He is considered by many a visionary leader with big plans for his own country and for Europe. He started several reforms in French domestic policy, and his foreign policy is also ambitious. In this episode of the Global Futures podcast Thorsten Benner from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) meets Thomas Gomart, director of the Institut français des relations int...

Apr 27, 2018•27 min

Matias Spektor: Brazil Unraveling. The Country of the Future in Crisis

In this episode of the Global Futures podcast, Joel Sandhu from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)meets Matias Spektor, an associate professor in the Center for International Relations at Fundação Getulio Vargas in Sao Paulo, to discuss Brazil's current political crisis and economic recession. The country’s image as a rising economic power is under threat, so how badly hit is Brazil, the country of the future?

Apr 03, 2018•29 min

Elizabeth Sidiropoulos: The Ramaphosa Era. Challenges at Home and Abroad for South Africa

In the first episode of the Global Futures podcast, Thorsten Benner from the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to speak with Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, chief executive of the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg, and asks: What’s next for South Africa after Jacob Zuma, now that Cyril Ramaphosa is leading the country?

Mar 19, 2018•32 min

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