World Review from the New Statesman

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe, in Berlin, and Emily Tamkin, in Washington DC, are joined by Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard and a former Minister in the Lula and Rousseff governments, to discuss whether Brazil's stagnation will lead to crisis, if Lula can make a successful return to politics, and what the similaritie...

On March 23, Israel faces its fourth election in two years, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition with Benny Gantz's Blue and White party collapsed after just seven months. Current polling suggests neither of Israel's major political blocs can secure enough votes to form a majority. In this episode of  World Review  from the  New Statesman , Alona Ferber joins Jer...

On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined, from Copenhagen, by Ravinder Kaur, author of Brand New Nation, to discuss the farmers' protest in India, how they've sustained momentum for a hundred days, and whether they can create a meaningful and lasting opposition to Modi's government. We'd love to hear from you! Send u...

Sir John Jenkins, formerly the UK's ambassador to Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia, joins Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin to look at the decade that's passed since the Arab Spring, and what lessons have been learnt in both the region and the wider international community. Further reading: Sir John Jenkins' piece,  The lights that failed , discusses why the cause of liberal de...

Large scale protests have been taking place in Myanmar since a military coup on February 1st deposed the democratically-elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. This week, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar  reported  that the military were being deployed to the city of Yangon, raising fears of bloodshed. Protesters are calling for the release o...

On 17th March the Netherlands will to the polls in the 2021 general election. In this episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by Pepijn Bergsen, a research fellow in the Europe Programme at Chatham House, to discuss the upcoming Dutch elections. Will Geert Wilders improve his far-right party's performance from 2017?...

On his return to Russia from Germany, where he'd been recuperating after being poisoned by a nerve agent, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested for criminal charges resurrected by the Kremlin from a years-old conviction. In the days since, peaceful protesters have taken to the streets demanding Navalny's freedom. They've been met with brutality. Does this mean trouble for Vladmir P...

On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Rui Zhong, Program Assistant for the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, to discuss how Wuhan has (or hasn't) bounced back from the first days of covid-19, whether there's a growing anti-China sentiment globally, and how admini...

In the week when Germany's governing party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), elected Armin Laschet as its new leader, and Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin are joined on World Review by Constanze Stelzenmüller , Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution. In this episode, they discuss...

The movers have arrived, and the Trump administration is finally leaving the West Wing of the White House after a tumultuous - to say the least - post-election period. As the outgoing president is locked out of his social media accounts and impeached for a historic second time accused of inciting the riot on Capitol Hill, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are join...

Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Paris sit down to look ahead at the stories that might dominate 2021 – from protests in Belarus to friction in Asia via elections in Latin America – and the global impact they could have. They also take stock of the events of the last week, including the scenes as Donald Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol building. Read...

On this week's World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe, in Berlin, and Emily Tamkin, in Washington DC, are joined, from Paris, by regular contributor Ido Vock to put 2020 under the microscope and look at the good news, bad news and under-reported stories from a tumultuous year. Send us your You Ask Us questions at  youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit  newstate...

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined, from Tunis, by Layli Foroudi to discuss the decade that has passed since a Tunisian fruit-seller sparked the protests and revolutions known as the Arab Spring. They also discuss the latest from Europe, the USA and India. Send us your You Ask Us questions at  you...

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Mark Lowcock, the United Nations' Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. They discuss how covid-19 has impacted the Global South, what aid should look like during this time, and whether societal institutions will survive...

On this week's World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined from Warsaw by Annabelle Chapman, a European political writer and NS contributor, to discuss the abortion protests in Poland, the rise and rise of illiberalism in Europe's 'renegade' states and whether a Belgian sex party could spell trouble for Viktor Orbán. Send us your You Ask Us...

On today's World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined, from London, by the NS's Political Correspondent, Ailbhe Rea (also a co-host of the famed New Statesman Podcast). They discuss Joe Biden's Irish roots and what they could mean for Brexit, and try their hand at resolving the island of Ireland's border issues. Send us your You Ask Us ques...

On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined by Milan Vaishnav, director of the South Asia programme at the Carnegie Endowment and author of When Crime Pays. They discuss Indian-American voting patterns, the Biden administration's possible relations with South Asia, and recent elections in Bihar. Send us your You Ask Us...

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Ido Vock in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Evan Osnos, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of Joe Biden: American Dreamer. They discuss President-Elect Biden's next moves, how he might handle diplomacy with China, and whether the Lincoln Project impacted the election result. Send us your You Ask Us questio...

On today's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Ido Vock in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by New Statesman contributor Gary Younge to discuss the fallout from the US presidential election, as Joe Biden appears to be on the cusp of victory. Send us your You Ask Us questions at  youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit  newstatesman.com/subscrib...

On today's bonus episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Ido Vock in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by the New Statesman's data guru Ben Walker to look at the fallout from the electoral stalemate, and what might happen next in this extraordinary contest. Send us your You Ask Us questions at  youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit  newstatesman.c...

On today's special episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by the New Statesman's own data guru Ben Walker. They discuss the polls on the eve of the election, and what the New Statesman model thinks will happen, as well as the whole team giving their predictions for what will likely be a hugely controversial and important...

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined by Sir Kim Darroch, the former British ambassador to the United States, and author of Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump. They discuss the last days of Donald Trump's first term, the possibility of a Joe Biden premiership, and what the...

On this week's World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin, are joined by Courtney Fingar, editor of Investment Monitor, and Sommer Mathis, editor of City Monitor, to look at the geographical rifts that have emerged across America in the run-up to next month's election. Send us your You Ask Us questions at  youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't sig...

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe in Berlin and Emily Tamkin in Washington DC are joined, also from the American capital, by Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute and author of Tomorrow, The World. They discuss the development of American foreign policy, it's place in the current global theatre and how it's playi...

On this week's episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Emily Tamkin in Washington DC and Ido Vock in Berlin are joined, from London, by the NS's digital culture writer Sarah Manavis to discuss the QAnon conspiracy theory and the impact that it's having in the United States' election. Send us your You Ask Us questions at  youaskus.co.uk . If you haven't signed up yet, visit  newst...