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New Thinking for a New World
Aiming to provoke people to think — and therefore act — differently about the global issues that are shaping their future, the Tällberg Foundation is sharing some of its conversations in podcast form. The podcast invites you to hear from leaders from different sectors and geographies as they explore issues that are challenging and changing our societies.
Episodes
New Thinking for a New WorldMongolia: Between the Hammer and the Anvil
Dr. Undraa Agvaanluvsan recently explained her country’s challenges in coping with a changing global order. Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed how global…
New Thinking for a New WorldAsk ChatGPT: How worried should we be?
Our guests help us understand not only what's technically called generative AI, but to think on how we live or could live in the not so distant future It’s…
New Thinking for a New WorldLooking for Justice, One Person at a Time
Sam Muller is building “people-centered justice” that works for everyone. 2023 looks likely to be a year of recession, inflation, social and labor unrest, war…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: From the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner
David Kaplan believes that the food he and other scientists are growing in their labs can eventually feed a hungry world. At least one in nine of the almost…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Asia for the Asians—but which Asians?
Listen as C Raja Mohan explains how India can cope with a dangerous world and a dangerous neighbor. We live in a complicated, conflicted world. Russia's…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Who is Vladimir Putin?
Listen to Philip Short discuss how Putin looks at the world, what turned him away from a partnership with the West, and the risk that his war could go nuclear…
New Thinking for a New WorldDialogue of the deaf: Europe and China
Andrew Small explain how and why he thinks that the Chinese challenge is dramatically and dangerously changing. As recently as September 2021, outgoing German…
New Thinking for a New WorldNavigating the World, One Charity at a Time
Listen to Michael Thatcher, Charity Navigator’s President and CEO, whose purpose is to bring transparency to philanthropy. For many, the holiday season is a…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Can Tech Save Us?
Can innovations be transformed into practical realities at the necessary speed and scale, and in ways that allow mankind to flourish? Our world has become a…
New Thinking for a New WorldAmerica Votes; Democracy Wins (Maybe)
Richard Gephardt and Scott Miller sift through the evidence and speculate on the future of democracy in America. The US mid-term elections are (almost) over…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Live and Let Live
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, a winner of the 2022 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prizes, believes that zoonotic disease is controllable by…
New Thinking for a New WorldWhat Does a Franco-German Split Mean for Europe?
Laure Mandeville and Friedbert Pflüger discuss how Europe can recover if the French and Germans can't figure out how to work together? Europe is in a bad…
New Thinking for a New WorldBubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Europe Looks at a Complicated Future
Jakob Hallgren and Ana Palacio discuss how Europe might get from where it is to where its citizens need it to be. Europe is under considerable stress from the…
New Thinking for a New WorldCan a Broken Democracy Fix Itself?
Isabel Aninat is fundamentally optimistic that Chilean democracy is headed in a good direction. What do you think? After the tragedy of the Pinochet years…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?
Listen to last year's prize winner, Tero Mustonen, share his insights on how to promote positive change to a damaged planet. Rapidly accelerating climate…
New Thinking for a New WorldNo Normal is the New Normal
Diane and Tom, are in the business of thinking about converging crises and trying to help corporate executives cope with them. We live in a world of converging…
New Thinking for a New WorldWho is Vladimir Putin?
Listen to Philip Short discuss how Putin looks at the world, what turned him away from a partnership with the West, and the risk that his war could go nuclear…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Don’t Fool with Mother Nature!
We live in an era of accelerating, disruptive climate change, with catastrophic consequences that every credible forecast says will worsen. We live in an era…
New Thinking for a New WorldUnwrapping the Riddle That Is Mexico
Jorge Castañeda thinks Mexico is in trouble, but almost half of all Mexicans say their country is on the right path. Mexicans, not known for being optimists…
New Thinking for a New WorldAsia for the Asians—but which Asians?
Listen as C Raja Mohan explains how India can cope with a dangerous world and a dangerous neighbor. We live in a complicated, conflicted world. Russia's…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Speaking Truth to Power in the Real World
Listen as three of the good “guys” discuss the reality in the trenches of the fight for human rights. At a time when autocrats are rampaging and our…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Code Red: not for Earth, for Humanity?
"Human pressures on earth have reached dangerously high levels" which could imperil humanity’s survival, “For the first time in human history, we face a…
New Thinking for a New WorldFrom the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner
David Kaplan believes that the food he and other scientists are growing in their labs can eventually feed a hungry world. At least one in nine of the almost…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Are You Listening?
Too many people seem voiceless or, at least, don’t think their voices are heard by those whose decisions shape their lives. Is the problem that too many are…
New Thinking for a New WorldCan Tech Save Us?
Can innovations be transformed into practical realities at the necessary speed and scale, and in ways that allow mankind to flourish? Our world has become a…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Sweden Burning? Really?
Listen as Lars Åberg explains what Sweden has done right, but also what it has done wrong. We live in the age of the refugee—and the numbers of people fleeing…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Welcome to the End of Democracy
Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies. "We may…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Save the Seas
Do you care about the future of the oceans? Oceanographers Sylvia Earle and Asha de Vos talks about water, the oceans, threats, and solutions. Do you care…
New Thinking for a New WorldShould We Be Celebrating Erdogan’s Leadership?
What President Biden calls leadership Michael Sahlin, former Swedish diplomat with deep experience in Turkey, thinks is more like a cat landing on its feet…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: The Whole World is Watching!
Back in March we talked to Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats at the beginning of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Listen to her tell it like it is! In…
New Thinking for a New WorldCode Red: not for Earth, for Humanity?
Human pressures on earth have reached dangerously high levels" which could imperil humanity’s survival, “For the first time in human history, we face a…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating - Them vs Us: What Ukraine Is Really About
Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan patriot, explains how the fight to save Ukraine reflects a much bigger, existential fight for freedom everywhere. As Russia's war…
New Thinking for a New WorldAre You Listening?
Too many people seem voiceless or, at least, don’t think their voices are heard by those whose decisions shape their lives. Is the problem that too many are…
New Thinking for a New WorldDon’t Fool with Mother Nature!
We live in an era of accelerating, disruptive climate change, with catastrophic consequences that every credible forecast says will worsen. We live in an era…
New Thinking for a New WorldSpeaking Truth to Power in the Real World
Listen as three of the good “guys” discuss the reality in the trenches of the fight for human rights. At a time when autocrats are rampaging and our…
New Thinking for a New WorldUkraine Changes Everything
This war is far from over and its reverberations will be with us for a long time. Most importantly, the war seems to be the straw that is breaking the camel’s…
New Thinking for a New WorldSweden Burning? Really?
Listen as Lars Åberg explains what Sweden has done right, but also what it has done wrong. We live in the age of the refugee—and the numbers of people fleeing…
New Thinking for a New WorldThem vs Us: What Ukraine Is Really About
Leopoldo López, a Venezuelan patriot, explains how the fight to save Ukraine reflects a much bigger, existential fight for freedom everywhere. As Russia's war…
New Thinking for a New WorldPoland to the Rescue
Marta Górczyńska, a Polish human rights lawyer, has dealt with her country’s efforts to close the border with Belarus as well as its enthusiastic opening of…
New Thinking for a New WorldHow Worried Are You?
Dr. Tytti Erästö's key assumption has long been that rational leaders would never use nuclear weapons. But now she is asking, what about irrational ones? One…
New Thinking for a New WorldDoes China Have Russia’s Back?
Tough question that may be impossible to answer, but Alicia Garcia-Herrero recently offered some possibilities. Perhaps the biggest known unknown in Russia’s…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Looking For—and Finding—Real Leaders
Listen to the 2021 Prize winners: Asha de Vos, Sri Lanka and Tero Mustonen, Finland. The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe Whole World is Watching!
At great personal peril, Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats tells it like it is—to the Russians who depend on her and to us, who need her. In August, 1968…
New Thinking for a New WorldIs China Complicit in Ukraine?
Why did Xi apparently green light Putin's war? What does China potentially gain from war in Europe? How does this war fit into China's long-term strategy?…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe Faces of War
Janine di Giovanni has spent much of her celebrated career witnessing the worst of what mankind can do to itself, but also the best that people under…
New Thinking for a New WorldSpecial Edition: War in Europe
The Tällberg Foundation recently hosted a conversation about the conflict in Ukraine and its implications. This conversation featured Jan Eliasson, Pierre…
New Thinking for a New WorldTalking about Talking
The Russian attack shattered the European security structure. Listen to Emma Ashford's thoughts and speculation about a new security structure for Europe. Wars…
New Thinking for a New WorldWelcome to the End of Democracy
Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies. "We may…
New Thinking for a New WorldWhat’s Next for the Climate: A Post Glasgow Perspective
No one is better positioned to answer those questions than Tomas Anker Christensen, Denmark's climate ambassador. Climate change is the ultimate example of a…
New Thinking for a New WorldSaving Democracy, One New Leader at a Time
Alice Barbe, a French political activist, recently shared her ideas, hopes and solutions on how politics ought to work. In many, perhaps most countries in the…
New Thinking for a New WorldWill there be war?
Listen as Constanze Stelzenmüller—an expert on Germany, geopolitics and trans-Atlantic relations - shares her views on what is at stake. Hostile troops massing…
New Thinking for a New WorldLooking for Change in All the Right Places: The New Middle East
Has the Middle East of strict Islam suddenly turned into something more modern? The Middle East is changing. In the past couple of years, peace treaties have…
New Thinking for a New WorldAre the Bad Guys REALLY Winning?
What does historian and journalist Anne Applebaum mean by “the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse”? Whether we like it or not, global politics…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating Cyber Defenders: Protecting Human Rights Online
Ronald Deibert is fighting back against digital predators to protect citizens and civil society. We live in an always on, hyperconnected, digital society…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Escaping the Taliban
Listen as Jamila Afghani talks about escaping the Taliban, and what she expects for her country. The Taliban's surge to power in Afghanistan is one of those…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating - China: On the Road to Perdition?
Is China’s leadership acting out of strength or weakness? Is war possible? Is war avoidable? Under President Xi Jinping, China has shown a growing willingness…
New Thinking for a New WorldSearching for New Leaders
Listen to Pashtana Durrani, an Afghan activist and educator and Christian Ntizimira, who champions palliative care in Rwanda, discuss leadership. Great leaders…
New Thinking for a New WorldLooking For—and Finding—Real Leaders
Listen to two amazing leaders: Asha de Vos, Sri Lanka and Tero Mustonen, Finland. The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision…
New Thinking for a New WorldGive Peace a Chance (this time in the Middle East)
Listen as Ambassador Dina Kawar parses the possibilities, good and bad, in the Middle East Like almost everything else on the global scene, the Middle East of…
New Thinking for a New WorldSave the Seas
Oceanographers Sylvia Earle from the US and Asha de Vos from Sri Lanka talks about water, the oceans, threats, and solutions. Do you care about the future of…