Amar Breckenridge of Frontier Economics joins us to discuss today's global trading system, assessing historic trends and looking at how Covid-19 and climate change may affect its future state. We delve into the direction of global trade growth pre pandemic as well as how trade and sustainability will be intertwined going forward. Enjoy!…

Shashank Joshi, defence editor at the Economist joins us to unpack and explore a new conflict between age old adversaries Greece and Turkey. In this episode Shashank expands on an already broad article recently published in the Economist. A dispute linked to multiple flashpoints across the Mediterranean, we try to visit as many of these elements as…

Alexandre Lefebvre is a Professor of International Relations and Philosophy at the University of Sydney. We discuss the subject of his book “Human Rights and the Care of the Self”, and his book currently in writing called “Liberalism as a Way of Life”. “Liberalism can serve as a worldview and way of living: not just in terms of how people relate to…

Dr. Ainsley Elbra of the University of Sydney discusses the African Resource Curse, private governance by mining companies, and how Botswana adopted strategic policies to avoid falling victim to the Resource Curse. She also discusses the evolution of the mining industry post-colonialism, the nationalization of the mining industry by many African st…

Prof. Alanna O’Malley of Leiden University, and political writer, discusses the role of the United Nations in the Congo Crisis amid the Cold War, and the role of the UN today as the only international governing body. She discusses the future of the United Nations, and how superpower politics are impeding global governance and cooperation against in…

Timothy Garton Ash is a Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford. He is a political writer and columnist and author of 'Free Speech: 10 Principles for a Connected World'. Timothy discusses the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the re-joining of Europe, challenges facing the European Union – including the Hungarian dictatorshi…

Andreína Itriago is a political journalist in Venezuela and a correspondent for El Tiempo. She discusses the catastrophic downfall of Venezuela under the Maduro Regime. The collapse of the country’s oil industry, an imminent civil war, the refugee crises, and little hope for the fall of the regime as the military remain loyal to the illegitimate na…

Prof. Isabella Jackson of Trinity College Dublin discusses the evolution of China from the Opium Wars to the rise of communism, nationalism in exile in Taiwan, the one-child policy, Chinese censorship - and how this may have indirectly led to the Covid-19 pandemic. She also discusses her research into child slavery and attitudes to childhood in Chi…