129 - America: 2021 And Beyond | Velina Tchakarova | Ruchir Sharma | Bharatvaarta | Policy

America celebrates 245 years of Independence this month, and in this  episode, we take a look at some of the social and political changes that  have taken place since the last few years. We tackled issues such as  the Trump election, the COVID-19 pandemic, wokeism, and much more.   Ruchir Sharma is an international affairs and social entrepreneurship  expert across India and Europe, with experience ranging from research at  IIM-Ahmedabad to public policy and security sector reform with a Swiss  inter-governmental agency, and from business innovation in the German  technology sector to international environmental advocacy with one of  Europe’s oldest NGOs and at the United Nations.  In 2017, he was selected as an MIT Global Entrepreneur and Indo-German  Young Leader, and in 2018, named a Climate Reality Leader by Al Gore’s  Climate Reality Project and helped ProVeg International win the UN  Momentum for Change Award for Planetary Health.   Velina Tchakarova is Head of Institute at the Austrian Institute for  European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. She holds a M.A.  in political science/political science of South Asia from the  University in Heidelberg, Germany and a B.A. in international relations  from the University of World and National Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria.  Her work includes research, consulting and lectures on the global system  transformation and geostrategy of global actors as well as the EU  foreign, security, and defence policy.