Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

Mark Leonard speaks with Susi Dennison, director of ECFR’s European Power programme, and programme coordinator Pawel Zerka, about the upcoming European Parliament elections, the possibility of a surge in Eurosceptic parties, and how to mobilize the pro-European vote. New ECFR report: "The 2019 European Elections: How anti-Europeans plan to wreck Europe and what can be done to stop" it’https://www.ecfr.eu/specials/scorecard/the_2019_European_electionBookshelf: -The Happiness Industry by William Davies-Nervous States by William Davies -Bourgeois Equality by Deirdre N. McCloskey- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith-The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana ZuboffThe podcast was recorded on 11 February 2019.Picture: © European Union 2019 - Source : EP Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Dworkin steps in for Mark Leonard and speaks with Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, Federica Paddeu, and Sergey Sukhankin, about what risks the recognition of Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela by several European countries will bring. The podcast was recorded on 5 February 2019. Bookshelf:Russian mercenaries on the march: next stop Venezuela? by Sergey Sukhankin https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_russian_mercenaries_on_the_march_next_stop_venezuelaDismantling Democracy in Venezuela: The Chávez Authoritarian Experiment by Allan R. Brewer-Carías https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dismantling-democracy-in-venezuela/8AE23B722E92B1BB95A8B15363ADEADAThe Mutiny - the name of the third world by Evgeny Messner http://csef.ru/en/oborona-i-bezopasnost/504/messner-e-myatezh-imya-tretej-vsemirnoj-3829Caracas Chronicles https://www.caracaschronicles.com/AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee https://aisuperpowers.com/Picture credit: Isabel Díaz Ayuso junto a Jose Luis Rodriguez Almeida asisten a la concentración en apoyo al gobierno de Juan Guaido by PP Communidad de Madrid, via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/ppmadrid/32021734217/in/photolist-QMDKXP-2dabiBV-2drUZcq-2dabiLc-2drUYU1-23RMhr6-2dabiCX-23WvvMg-QMDKYR-QMDKLX-2drUZfG-2drUZis-2drUZcL-QLMj7k-2etmEE6-QMDL3t-23WvvNt-23WvvHi-2dabiQv-2d5qK6c-2dnbkSd-23RMhGr-23RMgMF-2eteBaV-QMDL9a-QMDL5n-2dnbkJ7-2eteBdv-23RMgfZ-23RMgjX-2d5rj3V-23RMgZV-23RMgPz-23WvvDR-23WvvUv-2drUYA5-2drUYMC-23Wvw3M-2drUZ4Q-QMDL1e-2drUZdY-2drUZaw-23RMg3V-2dabizF-2drUYNj-23WvvFz-23WvvSB-QMDKSP-2drUZ37-Sk8waj, CC-BY-2.0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Dworkin steps in for Mark Leonard and speaks with Janka Oertel and Sebastian Mallaby about US-China trade talks, their relationship and Europe’s role. The podcast was recorded on 30 January 2019.Bookshelf: Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Troublemakers/Leslie-Berlin/9781451651508The Code: Silicon Valley and the remaking of America by Margeret O’Mara https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534709/the-code-by-margaret-omara/9780399562181/Die Neuerfindung der Diktatur by Kai Strittmatter https://www.piper.de/buecher/die-neuerfindung-der-diktatur-isbn-978-3-492-05895-7Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi https://www.versobooks.com/books/2736-algiers-third-world-capitalPicture credit: 1444957 by Mohamed Hassan via Pxhere https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1444957, CC0 Public Domain Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Dworkin steps in for Mark Leonard and speaks with Almut Möller, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil and Tom Nuttall about how significant the new treaty of friendship between France and Germany is. The podcast was recorded on the 17 January 2019.Bookshelf:Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/261/26185/iron-kingdom/9780140293340.htmlWir sind ja nicht zum Spaß hier: Reportagen, Satiren und andere Gebrauchstexte by Deniz Yügel https://www.amazon.de/sind-nicht-Spa%C3%9F-hier-Gebrauchstexte/dp/3960540736La Faiblesse du vrai: Ce que la post-vérité fait à notre monde commun byMyriam Revault d'Allonnes http://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-faiblesse-du-vrai-myriam-revault-d-allonnes/9782021383041Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1037630/sabbath-s-theater/9780099582014.htmlWarnings From Versailles: The Lessons of 1919, a Hundred Years OnBy Margaret MacMillan https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/europe/2019-01-08/warnings-versaillesPicture credit: Official portrait and opening ceremony Emmanuel Macron (President of France) and Angela Merkel (Federal Chancellor of Germany) by NATO via https://www.flickr.com/photos/nato/43344877991, CC-by-NC-ND 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Dworkin steps in for Mark Leonard and discusses the US strategy in Syria with Asli Aydintasbas, Julien Barnes-Dacey and Jasmin El-Gamal. The podcast was recorded on 10 January 2019.Picture: Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Matthew Callahan via US Department of Defense https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1239452/collaboration-fuels-fight-against-isis-official-says/, DoD Instruction 5410.20 https://www.dimoc.mil/resources/limitations/. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro review the year gone by and predict the 10 foreign policy trends that will define 2019.Picture credit: Statistics Forward Financial Trends by Pixabay https://pixabay.com/en/statistics-forward-financial-trends-2214097/, CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks with Shoshana Fine, Tom Nuttall, Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, and Patrycja Sasnal about the UN’s GCM, and whether it matters that some European countries haven’t signed it. The podcast was recorded on 12 December 2018.Bookshelf:Go, went, gone by Jenny Erpenbeck https://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-Went-Gone-Jenny-Erpenbeck/dp/1846276209How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/562246/how-democracies-die-by-steven-levitsky-and-daniel-ziblatt/9781524762933/ Security at the Borders: Transnational Practices and Technologies in West Africa by Philippe M. Frowd https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/security-at-the-borders/4F392EE06A6B27A2E531C388C86B73E6Revolution Of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology by Erich Fromm https://www.amazon.co.uk/Revolution-Hope-Toward-Humanized-Technology/dp/159056183XDistant love by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Distant+Love-p-9780745661803 Picture credit: The main entrance to the Global Compact for Migration Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, by UN Photo/Abdelouahed Tajani via UN News https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/12/1028251, Copyright guidelines https://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/guidelines.jsp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks with Michael Thumann about Germany and its new role in the world.Bookshelf:The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities by John J. Mearsheimer https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300234190/great-delusionSpionagechef im geheimen Krieg by Markus Wolf https://www.amazon.de/Spionagechef-geheimen-Krieg-Markus-Wolf/dp/3612264826Die Zeit articles by Michael Thumann https://www.zeit.de/autoren/T/Michael_Thumann/index.xmlPicture credit: The hands of Angela Merkel, forming her trademark gesture by Armin Linnartz via Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Angela_Merkel_hands.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mark Leonard speaks with Andrew Wilson, Kadri Liik and Nicu Popescu about the Kerch Strait ship capture, what this means and how the international community could react to the latest tensions. The podcast was recorded on 26 November 2018.Bookshelf:The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Cuckoos-Egg/Cliff-Stoll/9781416507789Why doctors hate their computers by Atul Gawande https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computersCyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President - What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know by Kathleen Hall Jamieson https://global.oup.com/academic/product/cyberwar-9780190915810?cc=gb&lang=en&Network Propaganda - Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts https://global.oup.com/academic/product/network-propaganda-9780190923631?cc=gb&lang=en&Distant love by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Distant+Love-p-9780745661803Picture credit: Vladimir Putin at celebrating the 70th anniversary of D-Day by Kremlin.ru, available via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vladimir_Putin_at_celebrating_the_70th_anniversary_of_D-Day_(2014-06-06;_06).jpeg, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anthony Dworkin speaks with Gerald Knaus about how the EU can protect human rights and prevent rising illiberalism.Bookshelf:Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/299057/moral-tribes-by-joshua-greene/9780143126058/Not Enough - Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737563Picture credit: Do not enter by nrjfalcon1 via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/en/do-not-enter-sign-traffic-road-600755/, CC0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.