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For the last several years, populist leaders have wreaked havoc on the institutions and norms that have underpinned the liberal world order. And their policies are increasingly placing the global economy at risk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
From #MeToo to gender identity, the zeitgeist has never been more amenable to shattering stereotypes and correcting wrongs. Yet health care remains stuck in the past. Asha George, Chair of Health Systems Global, describes how discrimination in health systems can create dangerous gaps in care. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
More than three years after the United Kingdom voted by a razor-thin margin to leave the European Union, the same question remains: How? Now, with a deadline to exit looming at the end of October, can the UK’s new prime minister, leading “Leave” campaigner Boris Johnson, deliver Brexit? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
In last week's episode, we asked New America President Anne-Marie Slaughter whether a woman can win the 2020 US presidential election. During our conversation, we also talked about what foreign policy might look like under a first female president. That's this week's outtake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A record number of women have thrown their hats into the ring to be the Democratic nominee in the 2020 US presidential election. But with the party still reeling from Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss in 2016, many are asking, “Can a woman beat Donald Trump?” Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and president and CEO of the think tank New America, joins our podcast to discuss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Although fair and free trade is one of the G20’s guiding principles, protectionism has re-emerged in many member states in recent years. Lawrence Summers, one of the G20’s architects, discusses the group’s evolution since it was established nearly 20 years ago, and some of the most pressing issues confronting it now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Last week, we spoke to Leta Hong Fincher about the evolving feminist movement in China, and how women could be the greatest threat to continued rule by the Chinese Communist Party. For our outtake this week, we look into one program that influenced women and families in China for nearly two generations: the one child policy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
When Mao Zedong declared in 1968 that “women hold up half the sky,” many were taken aback. No one expected such a progressive stance from the Communist founder of the People's Republic. Today, however, rather than seeing women as a key driver of economic advancement, China’s leaders have been cracking down on the feminist movement. Leta Hong Fincher, a scholar on women in China, explains why. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Type the words “Tiananmen” or “June 4” in a search browser in China, and little, if anything, identifies Beijing’s central square as the site where thousands of people, mostly students, were killed while peacefully demonstrating for democratic reform in 1989. Thirty years later, China’s government is as determined as ever to crush dissent.Featured in this podcast: Chris Patten served as the last British governor of Hong Kong, from 1992-1997. He is the author of several books, including East and ...
Last week, we spoke with Yascha Mounk, a professor on liberal democracy and populism at Johns Hopkins University in Washington. We discussed the state of the EU in the run up to last week's European Parliament elections. During our conversation, we also touched on the role social media has played in democracy. Here's this week's outtake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
European Parliament elections have traditionally been tedious, low-turnout affairs. But five years of financial and migrant crises, terrorist attacks, and growing nationalism have put the European Union under unprecedented strain, and this week’s vote could reset its direction. Featured in this episode: Yascha Mounk is an associate professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and author of the book The People Versus Democracy – Why Our Freed...
Often when we're recording, we end up asking questions that are very interesting, but don't make it into our final episode. Rather than letting this just sit as extra tape our hard drive, we want to turn these questions into outtakes. Here's our first one. Last week, we published an episode with Ambassador William Burns, a career diplomat who served for 33 years in the US Foreign Service. We asked him about the future of the Iran Nuclear Deal. But from 2005-2008 Bill Burns was the ambassador to ...
When Donald Trump took the stage at his inauguration in January 2017, he promised to put an end to the multilateral approach that had marked US foreign policy since the end of World War II, pledging to put “America First.” Ambassador William Burns joins our podcast to discuss what that means for the Foreign Service members who work on behalf of US interests abroad.**In this episode we highlight part of an interview with Rebecca Lissner, an associate professor at the US Naval War College and prev...
The days of waiting for the 7pm news or the morning paper are long gone. But, so too, is perspective and trust. Jay Rosen joins our podcast to discuss the future of journalism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In Waziristan, girls don’t play sports. They’re not allowed. But hostility and discrimination didn’t stop Maria Toorpakai from becoming one of the world’s top-ranked squash players. She joins our podcast to discuss how sports offer a platform for advancing gender equality and promoting social change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Around the world—at the grassroots level and in civil society—young people are taking action and raising their voices. Yet they remain underrepresented in political institutions and decision-making on issues of sexual and reproductive rights. For this special project podcast, recorded during the sixty-third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York, Project Syndicate, in collaboration with the International Women’s Health Coalition, follows three young sexual an...
According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, his creation was supposed “to make the world more open and connected.” After massive privacy breaches and the proliferation of misinformation and hate speech, that mission lies in ruins. Roger McNamee, an early investor in the platform, joins our podcast to discuss what went wrong.*NB at 14:47: It was Michael Cohen's Rockefeller Center office that was raided by the FBI in April 2018. Paul Manafort's home was searched in August 2017. Ho...
It has been two years and nine months since the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. To say that the subsequent negotiations outlining exactly how Britain would withdraw from the bloc have been messy would be an understatement. Fintan O’Toole joins our podcast to discuss one of the thorniest issues: the Irish backstop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nearly five years ago, Hoda Muthana and Shamima Begum left their respective homes in Alabama and London and traveled to Syria, where they swore loyalty to ISIS. Now they want to return home. But can they? A new UN report examines the question. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
After US President Donald Trump said that the Sino-American trade truce could be extended beyond March 1, Chinese and American delegations rushing to negotiate a deal breathed a sigh of relief. But the dispute between the US and China is about much more than trade, says New York University professor Ann Lee. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
When it comes to tackling the challenges of inequality, are we asking the right questions? Or, for that matter, measuring the right indicators? Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2015, says no, and it's masking a public health crisis. **Also featuring Princeton University professor and economist Anne Case Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
For the past several decades, world leaders, CEOs, tech titans, billionaires, philanthropists, and celebrities have descended upon Davos, Switzerland with the goal of “improving the state of the world.” Anand Giridharadas, author of "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World", says they are part of the problem.This episode was recorded on Wednesday, January 23, 2019. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
The Chinese authorities' control of citizens' online activity is intensifying under President Xi Jinping. But for Xiao Qiang, an expert on Chinese censorship at the University of California, Berkeley, the more worrying trend is a shift toward dystopian forms of digital domination that could affect people worldwide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
The US-led international order is fraying under the leadership of Donald Trump. But as Mira Rapp-Hooper and Rebecca Friedman Lissner explain, rather than assigning blame, policymakers should focus on what the American role in the world will be the day after Trump leaves office. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Growing inequality, accelerating globalization, and new technologies are contributing to a populist backlash that is upending the economic, political, and diplomatic norms of the last seven decades. In our special live event podcast, four leading economists offer their views on the year ahead.**This episode discusses themes featured in our annual magazine, The Great Disruption. Order your copy at www.project-syndicate.org/order/magazine/magazine2019.** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
For global-health professionals, the successful war on HIV/AIDS is a model to emulate when targeting other hard-to-contain pandemics. But as Columbia University’s Elizabeth Radin notes, the biggest obstacles to overcoming public-health crises are usually political, not scientific. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
For more than two generations, economic orthodoxy has held that governments that invest and regulate the least govern best. But Diane Coyle, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, discusses how state-led investment and regulation can boost economic growth and human welfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
In China’s far West, Muslim Uighurs are under attack in a wave of official repression occurring on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution. For James Leibold, an expert in China’s ethnic policies, the question is not what China is doing, but how to stop it.* This podcast was recorded on September 26, 2018. Follow James Leibold, Associate Professor, La Trobe University, at https://twitter.com/jleibold. * Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
When Americans vote on November 6, Donald Trump will not be on the ballot, but the future of his presidency will be. Veteran Washington journalist Elizabeth Drew explains why this midterm election will be so consequential. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Abortion is a polarizing issue, but it's also a fact of life in all countries and among all socioeconomic groups. The sooner the world normalizes the practice, says Françoise Girard of the International Women’s Health Coalition, the better off every woman will be.****************This podcast highlights a column recently written by Françoise Girard for Project Syndicate. Read it here --> http://bit.ly/2MZhIjGA section of this recording features work from Al Jazeera: https://youtu.be/zgvOtrBbYE0 H...
