Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the crisis in Macedonia and the bigger picture of political stagnation and chaos in the Balkans, at a time when accession to the EU is losing its credibility in the region. The podcast was recorded on 5th May 2017.To find out mor...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Christine Ockrent, an eminent journalist, and Laurence Parisot, the former head of the main polling company in France, about the second round of the French election where voters are facing a choice that will have enormous consequences for France and for the future of the European Union. The podcast was recorded on 25th April 2017.Bookshelf:Zygmunt Bauman et...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Tom Nuttall, author of the Charlemagne column in the Economist, and Susi Dennison, director of ECFR's European Power programme, about May's real reasons for calling elections and the implications for the Brexit negotiations. The podcast was recorded on 21st April 2017.Bookshelf:Alexander Betts & Paul Collier, Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee SystemHanya...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's research director, Jeremy Shapiro and Asia & China experts Angela Stanzel and François Godement about Trump's Asia policy and the EU's response to it. The podcast was recorded on 13th April 2017.Bookshelf:Bobo Lo, A Wary EmbraceDaniel Drezner, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of IdeasSincla...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with ECFR's policy fellows Kadri Liik and Julien Barnes-Dacey about Trump's air strikes on Syria and what they mean for the other actors involved. The podcast was recorded over the phone on 7th April 2017.Bookshelf:Anton Shekhovtsov, Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango NoirMaxine David, National Perspectives on RussiaPhilippe Sands, East West StreetPhilipp Ho...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Manuel Lafont-Rapnouil and Tara Varma from ECFR's Paris office about something that many people hope will never happen: a President Marine Le Pen. The podcast was recorded in Paris on 31st March 2017.Bookshelf:Astrid de Villaines & Marie Labat, Philippot Ier, le nouveau visage du Front nationalMarie Tondelier, Nouvelles du FrontBrice Teinturier, "Plus rien à...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Soli Özel, ECFR Council Member and Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and ECFR's Vessela Tcherneva on the upcoming Turkish constitutional referendum and Turkey's EU membership prospects. The podcast was recorded in Brussels on 24 March 2017.Bookshelf:Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the PresentJan-Werner Müller...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Julius Krein, who has set up the American Affairs Journal with the aim of laying the intellectual foundations of the Trump movement. The podcast was recorded on 17 March 2017.Bookshelf:James Burnham - The Managerial RevolutionF.H. Buckley - The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of AmericaThe Claremont's Review of Bookshttps://amgreatness.com/Find Julius Krein...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR's senior fellows, Asli Aydintasbas and Almut Moeller on the German-Turkish diplomatic spat, the forthcoming polls and the bigger picture of EU-Turkey relations. The podcast was recorded on 9 March 2017.Bookshelf:Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the EndJan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of NowhereIvan Krastev, After Eur...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with James McGann, senior lecturer in International Studies and director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR's research director and Kadri Liik, ECFR's senior fellow, on the threats and challenges that think tanks face in a fast-paced, post-truth world. The podcast was recorded on 2 March 2017.Bookshelf:James McGann, The Fifth Es...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Wolfgang Ischinger, the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. Together they are debriefing a very unusual MSC where the whole idea of the West was at stake. The podcast was recorded on 22 February 2017.Bookshelf:Thomas Schmid, Europa ist tot, es lebe Europa! Eine Weltmacht muss sich neu erfindenWolfgang Ischinger, Deutschlands neue VerantwortungWa...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Alexander Stubb, the former Prime Minister of Finland. Together they are discussing the idea of flexible European integration in a post-Brexit environment. The podcast was recorded on 16 February 2017.Want to find out more about this topic? Reach for Alexander Stubb's publications here: http://www.alexstubb.com/publications/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Michael Ignatieff, the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and one of the most thoughtful historians of liberalism. Together they are looking at the future of the liberal order following Trump's election and the rise of several illiberal powers elsewhere in the world. The podcast was recorded in Vienna on 7 February 2017.Want to find out more a...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with ECFR's Research Director Jeremy Shapiro and ECFR Policy Fellows Anthony Dworkin & Mattia Toaldo how the EU should respond to Trump's decision to restrict access to citizens from 7 predominantly Muslim countries. The podcast was recorded on 31 January 2017.Bookshelf:Walter Russel Mead, The Jacksonian RevoltYuval Noah Harari, Sapiens. A Brief History of Hu...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with Vessela Tcherneva, Head of ECFR Sofia office, and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş & Kadri Liik, ECFR Senior Policy Fellows, how US President Trump is challenging the European security order along 3 fundamental dimensions: future of NATO, sanctions on Russia and relation with Turkey. The podcast was recorded on 25 January 2017.Bookshelf:Philip Roth, The Plot against Ame...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with Tom Nuttall, Brussels bureau chief for the Economist and Ulrike Franke, ECFR's Policy Fellow, whether the Brexit negotiations will be influenced by the changes to the liberal order unleashed by Donald Trump's election. The podcast was recorded on 17 January 2017.Bookshelf:Zadie Smith, Swing TimeMichael Lewis, The Undoing ProjectBruce Chatwin, In Patagoni...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR's Middle East and North Africa Progamme Director, Ruth Citrin, and ECFR Policy Fellows, Ellie Geranmayeh and Hugh Lovatt, on the cards that the EU can play if the U.S. walks away from the table. The podcast was recorded on 13 January 2017.Bookshelf:Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot SeeNaguib Mahfouz, Children of the Alley: A NovelAeyal Gross, The...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Policy Fellows Stefan Soesanto, Kadri Liik and Gustav Gressel on Russia's interferences in Western politics. The podcast was recorded on 5 January 2017.Bookshelf:Maurice Paléologue, An Ambassador’s Memoirs Harvey Pitcher, Witnesses Of The Russian Revolution Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin Michael Hayden, Playing to the Edge...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Research Director Jeremy Shapiro for an end-of-year special where they recklessly hold themselves accountable for last year's predictions and take the risk of making 10 more for 2017.The podcast was recorded on 22 December 2016.Picture: Hieronymus Bosch - Der Garten der Lueste Mitte Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR Senior Policy Fellows Kadri Liik, Julien Barnes-Dacey and Anthony Dworkin about the Syrian situation and the prospects of a political solution. This discussion is followed by an interview with Piotr Buras, head of ECFR Warsaw office, on the current political crisis in Poland. The podcast was recorded on 21 December 2016.Bookshelf:Rosa Brooks - How Ever...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Christine Ockrent, journalist, Jana Puglierin, head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, and Josef Janning, ECFR senior policy fellow, about the ongoing debate in Berlin on a possible German nuclear deterrent. The podcast was recorded on 14 December 2016.Bookshelf:2016 White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bu...

ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks with Nathalie Tocci, Deputy Director of Istituto Affari Internazionali and Wolfgang Schüssel, Austria's former Chancellor, about the polls that were held this weekend in Italy and Austria. The podcast was recorded on the 5 December 2016. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR's director Mark Leonard speaks with author Gilles Kepel about the the primary election results, Islamophobia and challenges to French political identity. The podcast was recorded on the 2 December 2016.Bookshelf:La Fracture by Gilles KepelPicture: Wikimedia/Mardus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with journalist and Angela Merkel's official biographer Stefan Kornelius, and ECFR fellows Almut Möller and Josef Janning, about Merkel's candidacy for her fourth term as German Chancellor. The podcast was recorded on 23 November 2016.Bookshelf:Angela Merkel - The Chancellor and her World by Stefan KorneliusThe Passage to Europe by Luuk van MiddelaarTerror overs...

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR fellow Francois Godement and journalist Chistine Ockrent about the candidates for the French presidential election in 2017. The podcast was recorded on 18 November 2016. Bookshelf:Judas by Amos OzThe Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark LillaRemake the union to heal Europe’s rifts by Nicolas Sarkozy Affaires étrangères by Christine OckrentPi...