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Dec 18, 2019 • 17min

Central Europe's backlash against liberal ideas

Gideon Rachman talks to Bulgarian academic and writer Ivan Krastev about the rise of populist leaders in central and eastern Europe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 11, 2019 • 15min

Tensions at the heart of Europe

Gideon Rachman talks to Franziska Brantner, a rising star of Germany's Green party and its spokesperson on European policy, about the tense relationship between France and Germany as discussions on Russia, China and deregulation take centre stage.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 4, 2019 • 22min

The future of British unity and the EU

Gideon Rachman talks to Denis Staunton, London editor for the Irish Times and Tessa Szyszkowitz, author and UK correspondent for Austrian news magazine Profil, about the future of Britain and the EU ahead of a Brexit-focused UK general election. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 27, 2019 • 18min

Xi Jinping's China

Gideon Rachman talks to Minxin Pei of Claremont McKenna College in California and Elizabeth Economy of the Council on foreign relations in New York about the cult of personality around Xi Jinping in China. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 20, 2019 • 24min

Germany's shifting foreign policy

Thomas Bagger, chief foreign policy adviser to the German president, talks to Gideon Rachman about the fall of the Berlin Wall and Germany's position in a changing European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 13, 2019 • 21min

What would a progressive Democratic president look like?

Elizabeth Warren is the bookmakers' favourite to win the US Democratic party presidential nomination. Gideon Rachman discusses what a Warren presidency would mean for the rest of the world with Tom Wright, US foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Nov 6, 2019 • 20min

Singapore and the US-China trade war

Writer and former diplomat Kishore Mahbubani talks to Gideon Rachman about the US-China trade war and Singapore's special relationship with both sides of the dispute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 30, 2019 • 25min

Nick Clegg on Facebook

The former UK deputy premier talks to Gideon Rachman about his new role at Facebook and regulating big tech Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 23, 2019 • 21min

Trump's China policy

Gideon Rachman talks to Nadia Schadlow, widely regarded as the intellectual architect of Trump's foreign policy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Oct 16, 2019 • 24min

Trump, Brexit and America's shrinking role

Gideon Rachman discusses the similarities between the Brexit and Trump phenomena and America's shrinking role on the global stage with two London-based US foreign policy analysts. Kori Schake is deputy head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Jeremy Shapiro is research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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