Welcome to ECFR’s special limited podcast series, in which we bring you the most pressing items on Germany’s foreign policy to-do list for its new government!In our first episode, we'll discuss climate policy: Whoever wins the election, the next German government must approach climate action more systematically and in a more sustained fashion. Moreover, how well the newly elected Bundestag positions itself to implement and sustain a coherent climate agenda will depend in large part on its composition and leading figures. But how should the new government really go about this? What are concrete next steps to be taken?Read about the issue on https://ecfr.eu/article/flash-in-the-pan-flooding-in-germany-and-the-politics-of-climate/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special ECFR discussion on Palestinian politics, MENA Policy Fellow Hugh Lovatt interviews Inès Abdel Razek, Advocacy Director for the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) and Amjad Iraqi, Editor and Writer at +972 Magazine, to discuss political shifts from the March Israeli elections and dynamics surrounding the upcoming Palestinian elections. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are both, the EU and Japan ready for the challenges ahead of a digital 21st century? In many respects, there are points of contact between Asia and Europe. Parts, components, but also software from Asia play a major role in the expansion of digital state and private structures. The more physical products and digital services merge, the more important it is to address the challenges involved. What is certain is, that the ongoing digitization of our economies and societies is increasingly politicizing the debate about the role of technology and cybersecurity. In light of the new Biden administration, there is great potential for cooperation between two of the US closest allies in order to tackle cybersecurity challenges posed by geopolitical shifts. Closer cooperation on these issues can leverage and define the cooperation between the EU, Japan and the US in the coming years. This week host Dr Janka Oertel invited ECFR’s Visiting Fellow for Japan, Dr Elli-Katharina Pohlkamp, as well as Bonji Ohara from the International Peace and Security Department at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation to talk about the opportunities and challenges of cooperation in the field of cybersecurity and emerging technologies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Head of ECFR's Madrid Office, Jose Ignacio Torreblanca talks to the American historian, a Pulitzer Prize winner for Gulag, and expert on authoritarian populism about the recently published "The Twilight of Democracy" – a hard-hitting book on the collapse of a way of life based on reason and freedom, and the rise of another, based on hatred, resentment, and contempt for the rule of law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special ECFR discussion, MENA Policy Fellow Hugh Lovatt interviews Daniel Seidemann, the Founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem and an Israeli attorney that specialises in the geopolitics of contemporary Jerusalem. Together they discuss the recent UAE – Israel normalisation deal, the threat to the status on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, whether a two-state solution is still achievable and what role European governments can play ahead of the US elections.This conversation was recorded on 2 September 2020.Picture: Daniel Seidemann Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.