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Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ECFR hosts Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes, a news show with 645 episodes published.
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Loubna El Amine , lecturer in political theory at King’s College London and affiliate of the Lau China Institute, and Cobus van Staden , head of research at the China-Global South Pro
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Camille Grand , secretary general of ASD Europe and special adviser to ECFR’s European Security programme, and Marta Prochwicz Jazowska , deputy head of ECFR’s Warsaw office and policy fe
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Célia Belin , head of ECFR’s Paris office and senior policy fellow, and Jeremy Cliffe , ECFR’s editorial director and senior policy fellow, to discuss Marine Le Pen’s decision to run in F
This week, Mark Leonard speaks to Mike Kuiken , vice chair of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and Randy Schriver , chair of the commission and former US assistant secretary of defence for Indo-Pacif
It is ten years since Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, and the country is once again facing political upheaval. Keir Starmer has resigned as prime minister after his Labour rival Andy Burnham’s decisive vi
This week, Julien Barnes-Dacey welcomes Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud , Saudi Arabia’s minister of foreign affairs, for a fireside chat at ECFR’s Annual Council Meeting. In Prince Faisal’s first public appearance sinc
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Carl Benedikt Frey , associate professor of AI and work at the Oxford Internet Institute and author of How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations , to discuss wheth
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Anton Jäger , lecturer in politics at Oxford University and author of Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences , to discuss why political engagement is surging
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Liam Byrne , a British Labour Party MP and chair of the House of Commons Business and Trade Select Committee, to talk about the rise of right-wing populism across Europe and why mainstrea
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Kelsey Davenport , director for non-proliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, and Ellie Geranmayeh , deputy director of ECFR’s Middle East and North Africa programme, to i
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Curtis Yarvin , American blogger and political thinker, to talk about the ideas reshaping parts of the American right and Silicon Valley. Known for h
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by David Runciman , British political theorist and philosopher, to explore whether today’s sense of crisis really marks the end of democracy—or something more complex. As the global orde
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Ayşe Zarakol , professor of international relations at Cambridge University, to explore whether today’s global crises&nb
This week in London, Mark Leonard introduced his new book Surviving Chaos: Geopolitics When the Rules Fail and reflected on what it means to navigate a world in which old assumptions about rules-based order, power and in
This week, Mark Leonard speaks with Zsuzsanna Szelényi , a Hungarian politician and foreign policy specialist, about the forces behind Hungary’s historic political shift and what comes next for both the country and Europ
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 has gone from threatening to destroy an entire civilisation&n
This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Szymon Kardaś , senior policy fellow in ECFR's European Power programme, to unpack how war in the Middle East is reshaping Europe’s energy lands
This week Mark Leonard welcomes Jana Kobzova , co-director of ECFR’s European Security programme and senior policy fellow, to discuss how the war in Iran is reshaping Ukraine’s war effort. What began as cautious optimism
Mark Leonard welcomes Piotr Buras , Carla Hobbs , Camille Lons , Jana Puglierin and Arturo Varvelli and to discuss how Europe is responding to the war in Iran. This week Mark Leonard records live from ECFR’s all-staff re
This week, Mark Leonard is joined by Aziz Alghashian , senior non-resident fellow at the Gulf International Forum, Eran Etzion, former Israeli diplomat and deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council at the P
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