Shows / New Thinking for a New World
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 WorldCyber 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: Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?
Listen to Tero Mustonen, one of 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners. Rapidly accelerating climate change is uniquely modern — but…
New Thinking for a New WorldChina: 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 WorldElectrify Everything!
Do we have the technologies in hand to decarbonize economies in ways that are compatible with how people want to live? Politicians from around the world are in…
New Thinking for a New WorldGreta’s Right: Less Talk, More Action
What is actually being done about climate change? Searching for "Climate change" on Google produces 1.1 billion results in less than a second. It seems almost…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 21st Century Style
If art is a window on the soul of a nation, what does ours look like? Who do we think we are in the sense of identity? We live in a time of profound change…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Is It Possible to Be Optimistic About Climate Change?
Listen as Thomas Anker Christensen and Daniel Martinez-Valle talk about the need and opportunity for urgent, positive creative climate activism in the wake of…
New Thinking for a New WorldEscaping 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 WorldCan We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?
Tero Mustonen is a climate scholar who combines indigenous knowledge with academic research. Listen to his insights on how to promote positive change on a…
New Thinking for a New WorldLatin American Democracy: Dead or Alive?
Why do many Latins seemingly embrace “strong man” rather than democratic solutions to their social, economic, and political problems? Over the years Latin…
New Thinking for a New WorldNew World Order: Middle East Chapter
What kind of Middle East do Iran’s leaders, including president Ebrahim Raisi, want and what are they prepared to do to get it? The recent Taliban victory in…
New Thinking for a New WorldCan Brazil’s Democracy Survive Bolsonaro?
Or will he damage the democratic institutions so badly that Brazil’s future stability could be at risk? Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently said, “I…
New Thinking for a New WorldCyber (In)Security in a Connected World
Who makes the rules of cyber warfare? Who are the cyber powers? Cyber insecurity is a reality of life in the digital age. We all worry about being hacked…
New Thinking for a New WorldCan We Innovate Our Way to Better Times?
Are we smart enough to translate discoveries into tangible benefits for people? 2021 may go down in history as the year of the Great Awakening. Relentless…
New Thinking for a New WorldWho Cares About Migrants?
Where do they go and who will take them? Who worries about them in a world that is focused on coping with Covid? The world is a mess: climate change in real…
New Thinking for a New WorldA German Millennial Looks at a New — Or, at Least, Different — World
The 20th century ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you've come of age since then, the struggles of The Cold War are the…
New Thinking for a New WorldAre Your Thoughts Safe?
Neuroscientists know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world. In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: The Chinese Puzzle
What does China want from the rest of the world? Jonathan Ward thinks they want victory. What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the…
New Thinking for a New WorldSlouching Towards Bethlehem, 21st Century Style
If art is a window on the soul of a nation, what does ours look like? Who do we think we are in the sense of identity? We live in a time of profound change…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?
From Mexico to Argentina there has been an accelerating erosion of representative democracy. By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: The best of times, and the worst of times
This week’s guests are dedicated to trying to make the world the kind of place it could and should be. Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly…
New Thinking for a New WorldHot War, Cold War, New War
A few weeks ago, Belarus shocked the world when it forced a commercial flight from Athens to Vilnius to land and seized two passengers, one a dissident…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth Repeating: Live and Let Live
2020 will be remembered as the Pandemic Year, when a deadly pathogen somehow moved from bat to human—and the rest is history still being written. Six out of 10…
New Thinking for a New WorldA New Middle East
A case can be made that the Middle East is going through a realignment as significant as any since statesmen drew lines on maps after World War I or since the…
New Thinking for a New WorldDoes Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?
By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina—and most of the countries in between—there has been an accelerating erosion of…
New Thinking for a New WorldWelcome to the High-Tech Barbecue
Real, honest-to-god, good tasting steaks—without the downsides of factory farming. Agriculture as it is practiced today—industrial scale ranching and…
New Thinking for a New WorldHeart of Darkness
Michela Wrong who has spent nearly three decades writing about Africa, as a journalist, and as an author, talks about the people, the politics, and the…
New Thinking for a New WorldLeadership Special: Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons
Listen as two prize winners and friends Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons, discuss how great leaders can change everything. Today’s world is short of a lot of…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe hope of our future
“Youth is the hope of our future.” When it comes to governance, is that a good thing in a world where there is a growing body of evidence that youth's…
New Thinking for a New WorldLeadership Special: Jan Eliasson, Former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Jan Eliasson, one of the most accomplished global diplomats of our era, discuss how great leaders can change everything. Today's world is short of a lot of…
New Thinking for a New WorldAlone together: China and America
We seem to be moving from a world where markets ruled to one where politics rules: the politics of nationalism and confrontation, of East versus West instead…
New Thinking for a New WorldGirls, Interrupted
What’s bad for kids is worse for girls because in too many countries, especially in low- and middle-income countries, girls don’t have anywhere near adequate…
New Thinking for a New WorldLeadership Special: Nithya Ramanathan,Engineer working to improve human health with sensory intelligence
Listen, as she is interviewed by Cecilia Weckstrom, Sr Director, Diversity, Inclusion & People Innovation at Lego in the UK Today’s world is short of a lot of…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe Chinese Puzzle
What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest of the world? What does China—or, more…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe kids are not alright!
Early in 2020, when the global pandemic was still gathering force, UNICEF published a prophetic, deeply disturbing document "All children of all ages and in…
New Thinking for a New WorldLeadership Special: Leadership Special: a profile in brief with Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer
In this special episode you will meet Jared Genser, one of the three 2020 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners. Today’s world is short of a…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe best of times, and the worst of times
This week’s guests are trying to make the world the kind of place it could and should be. Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly and unevenly…
New Thinking for a New WorldIf it’s illiberal, is it democracy?
Europe is increasingly divided: between the frugal North and the Club Med South; between the illiberal East and the progressive West. In many ways, the latter…
New Thinking for a New WorldLeadership Special: Sylvia Earle, world-class oceanographer and educator
In this special episode, you will meet Sylvia Earle, one of the three 2020 prize winners. Listen, as she is interviewed by Ashok Mirpuri, Singapore's…
New Thinking for a New WorldCasas Muertas
Venezuela has been in a death spiral for years. The country have been devastated by political repression and economic depression; its people suffer from huger…
New Thinking for a New WorldWhen is too much freedom too much?
Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University, is widely considered one of America's leading legal scholars on freedom of speech and has written extensively…
New Thinking for a New World"Expect to have very violent reactions after the pandemic"
Europe has had a bad few years. The struggles between North and South mostly over economics, between East and West mostly over values. Brexit, which shifted…
New Thinking for a New WorldIran’s Annus Horribilis
2020 was an awful year for Iran. A year that started with the assassination of the country's widely popular, leading general ended with the assassination of…
New Thinking for a New WorldHigh Anxiety
There is mounting evidence that the pandemic is generating a global mental health crisis. How do we cope with the results? Even amid optimism about vaccines…
New Thinking for a New WorldDo you believe in Magic?
Magician Mark Mitton explores how magical thinking (or, at least, a magician’s thinking) can help us through this crisis. The pandemic has forced most of us to…
New Thinking for a New WorldWorth repeating: African Possibilities
This week we want to lift an older episode we believe bears repeating. What are some of the challenges Africa faces in its future? We invite you to take a…
New Thinking for a New WorldLooking for a New Normal (or something like it)
We live at a time of pandemic, recession, growing doubts about the future and form of capitalism, challenges to democracy, shifts in global power. The response…
New Thinking for a New World“A republic, if you can keep it”
Congressman Gephardt, a Democrat, firmly believes America needs bipartisanship to cope with the divisive spirits that are tearing at the country. One of…
New Thinking for a New WorldLines in the Sand
History is replete with leaders drawing real or metaphorical lines in the sand, challenging opponents to cross only if they dare. David Andelman, an American…
New Thinking for a New WorldWelcome to the Brave New (digital) World
We explore living online with a woman whose job it is to make the experience as productive and pleasant as possible. Jaime Teevan is Microsoft’s Chief…
New Thinking for a New WorldWhy Europe?
Pascal Lamy is arguably one of the most prominent, thoughtful and enthusiastic supporters of a global leadership role for Europe. He deeply believes that the…
New Thinking for a New WorldFollow the Science
2020 will probably be remembered as the year of COVID. Our guest has long worked at the intersection of science, politics, and policy. Dr. Ali Nouri, a…
New Thinking for a New WorldLive and Let Live
Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka believes that zoonotic disease is controllable by simultaneously working to improve the health of humans and animals, at the points…
New Thinking for a New WorldDemocracy in America
The U.S. election has come, but not quite gone as President Trump continues to resist the otherwise apparent victory of Joe Biden. The U.S. election has come…
New Thinking for a New WorldAmazonian Armageddon
Once again, the Amazon is burning—and deforestation may be approaching a tipping point that could turn the world’s largest rain forest into dry savanna or even…
New Thinking for a New WorldHas China won?
The competition between China and the United States is the defining geopolitical reality of the 21st century. The evolution of its new Great Game will…
New Thinking for a New WorldHappy (?) Birthday
The United Nations turned 75 this year—but the pandemic overwhelmed its birthday party. The UN, built in a different world, has succeeded in its core mission…
New Thinking for a New WorldBattlegrounds
General H.R. McMaster, a highly decorated U.S. military officer, discusses how he believes the U. S. and like-minded countries can maneuver through today’s…
New Thinking for a New WorldMigrants (barely) Surviving
Like a great magician, the pandemic has drawn our attention away from things that are hiding in plain sight. One of those has been the plight of millions of…
New Thinking for a New WorldA World Divided
The world's a mess. The great powers today, the Chinese and the Americans, seem to disagree on most things. The world's a mess. The great powers today, the…