Global Summitry Podcasts

The leader-led BRICS forum has received much attention in the international relations. Initiated as an acronym in 2001 by Jim O’Neill at Goldman Sachs to capture a set of large emerging market economies with high growth potential – Brazil, Russia, India and China – Russian officials organized this group first as informal gatherings of the Foreign Ministers and then in 2009 the first leaders’ summi...

It is a pleasure to welcome back Thomas Wright from the Brookings Institution. Tom is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. His research at Brookings on European politics and the Trump foreign policy are exactly what suggested our callback to Tom. In this podcast we explore wit...

The strains on the Liberal International Order continue apace. The antagonism between President Trump and allied leaders were on full display at the recent G7 Charlevoix meeting. Though the leaders had reached consensus on the Communique, Trump subsequently withdrew the U.S. endorsement and tweeted that Prime Minister Trudeau, the host of this year’s G7 was “Very dishonest & weak.” Now the allies...

The liberal international order is showing increased strain as President Trump continues to conduct U.S. foreign policy. So, much has been happening recently: the chaos of the G7 Charlevoix gathering with President Trump withdrawing the U.S. signature from the summit communiqué. The on-again off-again summit between North Korea’s Kim Jung Un and President Trump took place on June 12th leaving most...

The geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific, or the Indo-Pacific, as the Trump Administration has referred to the Asia-Pacific is a critical aspect of international politics and today’s global order. This podcast very fortunately tackles the politics of the region with one of the true experts there, Professor Mark Beeson of the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth Australia. In the podcast we ha...

This Series undertakes interviews with academics, policymakers and in particular former officials exploring the current and past architecture of summits and the state of global order policy-making. This podcast with Oliver Stuenkel is a full conversation exploring the hemispheric summit – the ‘Summit of the Americas’ and the regional politics of Latin America. Recently, leaders in the Western Hemi...

In this ‘Now’ podcast we explore the state of politics in South Africa and the continuing role of South Africa in international relations. South Africa has just gone through dramatic political change. First, Cyril Ramaphosa, long a member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a close colleague to Nelson Mandela, gained the presidency of the ANC. And then Ramaphosa and his colleagues were abl...

This podcast with Stewart Patrick was done while Stewart was visiting us here at the Munk School of Global Affairs to talk to about his new book, Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World. In the ‘plush’ podcast studio, Stewart and I sat down to explore what the book tells us about American foreign policy and the impact of Donald Trump on American international behavior. In addition, we...

In this podcast Peter Feaver examines closely the Trump Administration’s first National Security Strategy or NSS. What does the NSS tell us, and not tell us about the Trump Administration’s foreign and security policy. Additionally, we have the opportunity to question Peter on Trump trade policy, his policy toward the Korean Peninsula and Iran and more generally Trump’s policies towards allies and...

In this podcast, Matthew Goodman, gives us a tour de force of Trump policy in Asia and the ‘big question’ what will be the consequences for the liberal international order of a Trump administration. Matthew is currently the William E Simon Chair in Political Economy and the Senior Adviser for Economics at CSIS, the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Matthew has served in...

In this podcast Kori Schake tackles the main elements of the Trump Administration foreign and security policy. With Kori at the helm, we explore Trump’s policies in trade, the Korean peninsula, Iran and generally America’s leadership role – with allies and adversaries – in the liberal international order. Kori has operated close-in to U.S. military and security affairs with stints at the Defense D...

Joined by Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann.

In this podcast, we engage Harvard’s Joseph Nye Jr. in a wide-ranging conversation about cyber security. Joe has been at the forefront of the examination of critical issues in international relations. Recently, he has turned his attention to the impact of cyber security, cyber espionage and cyber warfare on international relations. Cyber has emerged as a critical feature of conflict in today’s int...

Jake Sullivan was the youngest head of Policy Planning in the State Department under the Obama Administration. During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, Jake was Hillary Clinton’s policy advisor. In this podcast, Jake discusses Democratic alternatives to the Trump Administration’s policy in critical foreign policy areas such as trade and globalization. Jake also assesses the Trump Administratio...

In this ‘Now’ podcast we get a chance to extend the examination of summits with two very eminent peace and conflict academics. Daniel Druckman and Peter Wallensteen prepared an article for Global Summitry that we published in Volume 2, Issue 2, entitled “Summit Meetings: Good or Bad for Peace?” The article sought to understand whether summit meetings between contending states have an impact on the...

In our latest interview with Professor Janice Stein, we examine the impact of President Trump and his policies on the most recent G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. We also discuss US foreign policy in a number of critical areas including the Middle East, North Korea, and Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin. Professor Stein is one of Canada’s leading authorities on global affairs. She is the Bel...

This interview with David Victor examines the complicated requirements for the transition to a low carbon economy. David discusses questions of fossil fuel pricing, the role of coal and carbon capture and storage (CCS), the impact of innovation on the road to deep decarbonization, the adequacy of today’s electric grids and the consequences of the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from th...

This interview with Thomas Hale is the first in a new podcast series titled “Climate Change Policy in the Aftermath of the Paris Accord.” Thomas Hale is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Professor Hale has written a great deal on managing transnational problems and climate change specifically. In this podcast, we explore the origin...

We hope you have had a chance to listen to the first of this two-part podcast, which features Daniel Deudney’s examination of Trump’s trade and climate change policy. In the second half of our interview, we explore the possible impact of Trump administration policy in: Syria, relations with Russia and the overall ‘big question’– Trump’s impact on US leadership in the Liberal Order.

This podcast interview with Daniel Deudney of Johns Hopkins University is presented in two parts. In the first of this two-part podcast, Daniel focuses on Trump trade policy and Trump climate change policy. Daniel is critical of both and explores what the consequences of Trump policy in the areas of trade and climate change may have on the Liberal Order.

In this interview with Nick Bisley an international relations expert from La Trobe University in Melbourne, we examine the reactions from ‘down under’ to Trump foreign policy. Australia is one of America’s key allies in the Liberal Order in Asia. The early ‘rocky start’ to Australia - Trump foreign policy’ relations raises many of the key issues in US foreign policy in the Age of Trump. Where does...

In this interview with Thomas Wright of Brookings, we begin a discussion of US foreign policy in the Age of Trump with a look back at citizen Trump’s views of US global economic and political policies. Wright has argued for some time that Trump has held a remarkably coherent and critical view of American foreign policy since the 1980s. We then delve into the elements of Trump’s ‘America First’ pol...

This is another interview on the critical subject of American foreign policy in the Age of Trump. Like other podcasts in this series, this podcast explores the changes under President Trump and his officials to American foreign policy and its consequences for the Global Order that America constructed over the last 70 years. Miles Kahler is currently a Distinguished Professor at School of Internati...

This is the first of several interviews on American foreign policy under Donald Trump. President Trump as a candidate rejected many of the foundations of the Global Order that the United States helped establish. Whether initiatives on free trade, relations with allies or rivals, the construction of numerous multilateral institutions, candidate Trump, now President Trump, urged radically different...

This podcast interview with the Right Honorable Paul Martin, interviewer Alan Alexandroff, a Senior Editor here at Global Summitry, is the embedded podcast accompanying Mr. Martin’s video text. This video was delivered at the opening of the Vision 20 meeting in China (March 29th to April 1st) at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. As the Editor’s Note in the text points out, the V20 brought to...