Global Power Shifts

Global Power Shifts is about the new multipolar world — and the rise of the rest. Journalists Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour (CNN, BBC, NBC, Fox News, Reuters) speak with the people who set policy, not just comment on it. Previous guests include sitting and former ministers, ambassadors, and security chiefs offering unvarnished views on energy, sanctions, tech sovereignty, maritime chokepoints, information ops, and statecraft. It’s decoding a changing world — how power is moving beyond a single center, and what that means for governments, markets, and daily life.

Global Power Shifts is a news podcast hosted by World1Media, with 34 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

World1Media hosts Global Power Shifts, a news show with 34 episodes published.

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  Episode #35

  Ethiopia's New War Could Pull In Its Neighbors, with Cameron Hudson

  Oct 1, 202626 minS1

  A seven-group coalition, including the TPLF, has declared war on Abiy Ahmed's government. Tigrayan forces have seized regional airports and are pushing toward the Djibouti trade corridor. Addis Ababa has accused Eritrea, Egypt and Sudan of backing the alliance.Cameron Hudson spent years inside the CIA's Africa directorate and later served as Chief of Staff to the US Special Envoys for Sudan. He now runs 54 Advisors and called the collapse of the Pretoria peace deal months before it happened.Jim Stenman sat down with him about a week into the fighting to ask who gains if Ethiopia breaks apart and whether Washington has any leverage left. They also get into whether Abiy still controls the country he governs.00:00 Cold Open00:29 Welcome Back to Global Power Shifts01:22 A Week Into the Fighting03:02 Why the Pretoria Agreement Finally Broke07:02 The Ingredients for a Regional War08:58 Eritrea, Washington and the New Rules of Engagement13:53 Evidence of Egypt and Eritrea's Involvement15:58 Is Abiy Still in Control?18:39 What Leverage Does the West Have Left?22:37 What Cameron Is Watching NextGlobal Power Shifts is a geopolitics podcast hosted by Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour, covering the new multipolar world through conversations with the people who set policy.Watch more: https://jimstenman.com/global-power-shifts/Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK4983mRNmZPfApRyListen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/global-power-shifts/id1791326929#Ethiopia #Tigray #Geopolitics #HornOfAfrica #CIARecorded September 29, 2026.

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  Episode #33

  Why America Never Had a Second 9/11: FBI Veteran Donald Alway, 25 Years On

  Sep 11, 202646 minS1

  America has never had a second 9/11, and Donald Alway spent over two decades inside the FBI after the attacks trying to keep it that way. On the 25th anniversary, Suzanne Kianpour and guest co-host Jamie Angus, a former BBC news executive, sit down with the man who was sent from Quantico to the Pentagon after the attacks for what he thought would be four days and stayed 35. He worked the crime scene in New York the following spring, went on to serve in Iraq and Doha and lead the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, and retired as Assistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office. He is now Chief Security Officer at Herbalife. He explains why Europe's returning-fighter problem never took hold in the United States, and what makes a person radicalising alone online harder to stop than a trained cell. He says the FBI never thought it needed a counter-propaganda campaign, and warns that people convicted of terrorism are starting to finish 25-year sentences and may not be on anyone's radar. Jamie puts Britain's decision to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship to him, and asks what the Gulf's surveillance-heavy model has bought after this week's Houthi strikes on Saudi Arabia, and whether the Patriot Act should ever be rolled back. Suzanne raises the 170,000 pages of Ground Zero air quality records released by Mayor Zohran Mamdani this week and the turnover at the top of the FBI under Kash Patel. She closes on how a former counterterrorism official sees New York's first Muslim mayor, 25 years on. Follow Global Power Shifts and subscribe on YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK4983mRNmZPfApRy Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/global-power-shifts/id1791326929 All episodes: https://jimstenman.com/global-power-shifts/ Chapters 00:00 "A four-day trip became 35 days" 00:20 Introduction 01:54 Quantico, the Pentagon and the day everything changed 05:08 The Mamdani air quality documents: "no one would have stayed home" 07:25 Why there has never been a second 9/11 09:18 Radicalised alone, undetected 11:25 Why Europe's returnee problem never reached America 13:03 The IRGC, homegrown plots and terrorists finishing their sentences 16:08 Should foreign fighters be allowed home? 17:13 Shamima Begum and stripping citizenship 19:49 October 7, Gaza and the campuses 21:38 Can America's stance on Israel ever change? 23:32 The ISIS song and why the FBI never ran counter-propaganda 31:25 The Gulf: surveillance, trust and the Houthi strikes 33:44 The Patriot Act, 25 years on 35:50 "You're not in the bureau anymore. What do you really think?" 37:41 Kash Patel and the turnover at the top 39:10 Who is left, and the 9/11 museum programme for new agents 41:41 A smaller American footprint in the Middle East 44:22 New York's first Muslim mayor 45:25 Close

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  Episode #32

  A gigantic setback for Russia? One year inside Trump's Armenia-Azerbaijan peace

  Aug 23, 202639 minS1

  A year after Donald Trump pulled the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan into the White House, the peace is holding and wheat is crossing borders sealed for decades, yet the treaty itself remains unsigned. Matthew Bryza, the former US ambassador to Azerbaijan who spent years mediating the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, calls the outcome "a gigantic strategic setback for Russia" and describes the corridor at its center as "promising, nascent, not yet in existence." He joins Jim Stenman to discuss why Moscow lost its grip on a region it long dominated, how Stalin drew a map designed to perpetuate conflict, what the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity actually is and who will own it, and the Armenian constitutional referendum everything now hangs on, plus how both countries manage Iran next door and where he'd put client money today, including Armenian copper and Azerbaijan's tax-free zone on the Caspian. Bryza now serves as the Managing Director of Straife Istanbul. Watch the full conversation on YouTube, and follow #GlobalPowerShifts for more. Full episode list: jimstenman.com/global-power-shifts

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  Episode #31

  When 50,000 Migrants Storm Your Hometown: Morocco, Spain and Ceuta, with Verónica Muñoz

  Aug 3, 202623 minS1

  Tens of thousands crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on 30 July, the biggest border breach in Europe's history. Verónica Muñoz grew up there. Her dad still lives there alone. Most of the crossers were young Moroccans hoping for a better life, and the crossings were organized openly on TikTok and WhatsApp. Some drowned off Tarajal beach. Days later most were back in Morocco and the cameras moved on. Verónica joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour with the view from inside: her father behind shuttered shops, why "Spanish colony in North Africa" gets 600 years of history wrong, and whether Rabat let it happen. Her answer: "Of course the Moroccan government allowed it." Also in this episode: Italy's border checks on arrivals from Spain, open talk of suspending an EU member from Schengen, and Pedro Sánchez. He's feuded with Trump, backed Palestine while Morocco allied with Washington and Israel, and legalized 500,000 migrants while the rest of Europe turned right. Now his government is fighting for survival. Follow Verónica: instagram.com/ajournalistvlogWatch on YouTube: youtube.com/@GlobalPowerShiftsAll episodes: jimstenman.com/global-power-shifts

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  Episode #30

  India Is Rising, But Is Its Democracy Quietly Dying?

  Jul 16, 202648 minS1

  India is the world's most populous country and a rising power courted by Washington, Moscow, Brussels and the Gulf at once. It is also, in the words of this week's guest, a democracy dying "slowly, quietly." No tanks on the road, no takeover of the TV station. A silent coup. Josy Joseph has spent thirty years reporting on India's security establishment and its corruption. He is the founder of Confluence Media, co-producer of Black Warrant, the hit Netflix crime series set in Delhi's Tihar prison. His new book, Birth of a Nation, draws on newly declassified archives to tell the story almost nobody outside India knows: how 565 kings and ruling families surrendered their thrones in a matter of months in 1947, what he calls the largest handover of hereditary power in history, and how close India came to breaking apart at birth. He joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour to connect that violent founding to the India of today: why the wound of Partition never healed and still drives the standoff with Pakistan; Gandhi's final defeat, accepted in silence on the backs of five old envelopes; how an estimated four million security and intelligence personnel became political weapons; Hindu nationalism and what it means for India's 200 million Muslims; why foreign investors are pulling back from Modi's India; how Delhi reads Pakistan's new role as mediator of the Iran war; and why, despite everything, he calls this the golden era of Indian investigative journalism. Josy Joseph is the author of A Feast of Vultures, The Silent Coup (published internationally as How to Subvert a Democracy), and Birth of a Nation. 🎧 Follow Global Power Shifts▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalPowerShifts🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK4983mRNmZPfApRy🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-power-shifts/id1791326929📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalpowershifts

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