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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 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…
New Thinking for a New WorldAfrica Agonistes
South Sudan celebrated its hard-won independence in 2011, but today is considered one of the most fragile, even failed states in the world. South Sudan…
New Thinking for a New WorldA Silver Lining to the Covid Disaster?
Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Magnus Schöldtz, former Ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, talk about Europes…
New Thinking for a New WorldWar, What is it Good For?
What happens if Turkey’s aggressive president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan miscalculates how far he can push the Greeks?Is war possible? Will Greece’s European allies…
New Thinking for a New WorldSometimes History Rhymes
Egypt’s Nabil Fahmy and Turkey’s Cengiz Çandar discuss what Erdogan wants as he is playing a high stakes game that some think could even lead to war between…
New Thinking for a New WorldAre We Really All in This Together?
Cardinal Czerny argues that any approach to Covid-19 that does not include those most vulnerable among us is a non-solution. Who then seems to have overlooked…
New Thinking for a New WorldAfrican Possibilities
How can Africa cope? Are solutions—or, at least, possibilities—to be found at the local, national or regional level? Listen to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of…
New Thinking for a New WorldSTOP SLAVERY NOW!
Why do nations, rich and poor, tolerate widespread slavery, human trafficking and even the buying and selling of young children in the 21st century? Why do…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe Covid Economy: Your Bust, My Boom
What happens when the global economy collapses, but global financial markets boom? That’s one of the issues explored in the conversation with German business…
New Thinking for a New WorldIs America Finished?
Why has America stopped investing in itself? We speak with Christine Loh who is a Hong Kong-based academic, environmentalist, and former government official…
New Thinking for a New WorldAmerica: Darkness Before the Crack of Dawn?
Castañeda talks about some of the ideas from his latest book, “America Through Foreign Eyes” and explains why he thinks the United States is heading in exactly…
New Thinking for a New WorldAre “we” capable of fixing all that is breaking? Or is it too late?
Looking for silver linings may be an integral part of the human condition. Even during the bleakest moments—like during a global pandemic, a global recession…
New Thinking for a New WorldIs America Racist — if so, will it ever not be?
Three global thinkers—a Mexican journalist (Ana Paula Ordorica), a Kenyan poet (Sitawa Namwalie) and a Congolese choreographer (Faustin Linyekula)—what they…
New Thinking for a New WorldFirst, help yourself - A Moroccan leader on coping with life after Covid
Like everywhere else, Morocco must cope with the potentially overwhelming health, economic and political consequences of the pandemic. But unlike most places…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe Millennial Future
In the midst of a global pandemic, many countries, leaders and people have turned local. That is not all bad: some people are working to strengthen their local…
New Thinking for a New WorldIs it possible to be optimistic about climate change?
For the first time in 75 years, the whole world is focused on the same problem and, in the process, mobilizing unprecedented political will, state authority…
New Thinking for a New WorldIs Europe’s future green or black?
The global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fissures in the global political and economic fabric. For democracy to survive, the social contract needs to be…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe American Condition
What is the state of the Union? Has the American dream become American carnage? Covid-19 has laid bare many pre-existing fissures and deep distress in American…
New Thinking for a New WorldClimate after Covid
Christiana Figueres—climate activist, one of the key architects of the Paris Climate Agreement and 2016 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize…
New Thinking for a New WorldThe value(s) of democracy
Democracy is under huge pressure everywhere, made worse by the global pandemic. Too many governments in too many places are failing to deliver on the basic…
New Thinking for a New WorldWill Democracy Survive Covid-19?
Democracy and democratic institutions were under severe pressure well before the novel Coronavirus appeared. Could the added burden of the pandemic break the…
New Thinking for a New WorldUnderstanding Coronavirus and its Implications
Anne Goldfeld, 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, is a clinician and a medical doctor with long experience—in the lab and on the front…
New Thinking for a New WorldWhat is a thought?
Rafael Yuste, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University and a 2018 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leader speaks with Alan Stoga, the Tällberg…
New Thinking for a New WorldGrappling with the Unknown
The three 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners meet after their participation in the “New Thinking in a New World” workshop in Nairobi…
New Thinking for a New WorldWhat is the future of democracy?
Are Western democracies the model to emulate for non-Western countries or do they require different models? Do democracies sufficiently represent all their…
New Thinking for a New WorldUnpacking a Tällberg Workshop: Hopes, concerns and red threads
Our initial podcast was recorded in Nairobi, Kenya, after a Tällberg Workshop. Three members of the Tällberg Foundation community reflect on “New Thinking for…