Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Highlights of the Munich Security Conference 2019
Highlights of the Munich Security Conference 2019 Directly from the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Mark Leonard, Ulrike Franke and Jonathan Hackenbroich share their post-conference insights. They discuss the speeches by German chancellor Angela Merkel, US vice-president Mike Pence, and Britain’s defence secretary Gavin Williamson, and talk about their favourite side-events. Bookshelf: * Munich Security Report 2019 "The Great Puzzle: Who Will Pick Up the Pieces?" https://www.securityconference.de/publikationen/munich-security-report/ * La ruée vers l'Europe : La jeune Afrique en route pour le Vieux Continent by Stephen Smith https://www.grasset.fr/la-ruee-vers-leurope-9782246803508 * The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers https://www.hodder.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781473619777 * The Light that Failed: How the West Won the Cold War But Lost the Peace by Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes (forthcoming September 2019) The podcast was recorded on Sunday, 17 February 2017. Picture: MSC / Kuhlmann