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Global Summitry PodcastsSeason 3—The current state of global relations: An introduction by Alan AlexandroffSeason 3—The current state of global relations: An introduction by Alan Alexandroff by globalsummitry2025-02-0903 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 28: Paola Subacchi on the G7, NATO and the G20We are entering a very busy ‘Summit Season’ and I thought I would kick off this Summit Season with a conversation with Paola Subacchi. I wanted to review with her the consequences of the just completed G7 Summit hosted by Germany at Schloss Elmau, the NATO Summit in Spain, and also look forward to the November G20 Leaders’ Summit hosted by Indonesia.
Paola is a Professor of International Economics and Chair Advisory Board at the Global Policy Institute at Queen Mary, University of London, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Previo...2022-07-0727 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 13: Kennedy on Recent Travels through the Asia-Pacific/Indo-PacificIt was a great pleasure to invite Scott Kennedy back into the virtual studio. Scott has just recently returned from Asia after 5 weeks of travel and discussion and I wanted to get his insights into the how China is viewed in the Asia-Pacific but also how the United States is viewed following President Biden’s first Asian trip. Among other diplomatic steps Biden met with the new President of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol; in Tokyo Biden held meetings with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) involving the United States and 13 other countries, and held a le...2022-06-1735 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 12: Bisley on the Changing Australian Political SceneI was pleased to sit down with Nick Bisley again in the virtual studio to explore the impact of a new Labour Government in Australia on its foreign policy and the views from Canberra of the Indo-Pacific and all the Biden Administration initiatives.
Nick Bisley is the Dean and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University in Melbourne. His research and teaching expertise is in Asia's international relations, great power politics and Australian foreign and defence policy. Nick is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and...2022-06-1030 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 11: Lim on the Emergence of the Indo-Pacific StrategySo, it was my pleasure to sit down with my colleague, Lim Wonhyuk in the Virtual Studio. Lim Wonhyuk has just recently returned to the Republic of Korea (Korea) after two years of research and teaching at SAIS in Washington D.C. as a Visiting Professor.
Given President Biden visiting the Asia-Pacific region for the first time since becoming President, it seemed opportune to sit down with my colleague Lim Wonhyuk to explore the consequences of the trip and focus more generally on the Biden Administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy.
Lim Wonhyuk is a professor at the KDI School of Public Po...2022-06-0128 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 27: Bradford on Consequences of Russia’s War in the Ukraine on Global SummitrySo, it was my pleasure to sit down with my colleague, Colin Bradford in the Virtual Studio to talk about the rising geopolitical tensions in the global order and the evident threats to the continuation of global governance, especially in the G20. There continues to be sharp relations between China and the United States. These relations have only become more difficult with the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine. How can the Bali G20 Summit proceed with the current determination by Russia’s President Putin to attend the Summit and the US insistence that it cannot be “business as usual”? It imp...2022-05-1131 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 10: Tiberghien on China’s DilemmaIt was my pleasure to welcome back into Virtual Studio our University of British Columbia (UBC) colleague, Yves Tiberghien. The order of the day was to examine closely China’s position, that is Xi Jinping’s and the Party and Government’s position on Russia. What is the impact of the April 4th partnership and then the Russian aggression against Ukraine? Also, I wanted Yves to describe for us the state relations between the EU and China.
Yves is currently a Professor of Political Science and the Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia. He is also a...2022-04-2130 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 9: Steven Slaughter on the Indo-Pacific and Australia's role in itI was pleased to invite Steven Slaughter into the virtual studio to discuss the Indo-Pacific and the changing role for Australia. I wanted to get Steven’s take on recent Australian foreign policy moves, Australia’s decision to join with the UK and the United States in Aukus whereby Australia will purchase nuclear submarines and nuclear technology from the UK and the US and displace an agreement with France to purchase conventional submarines. Aukus created quite the crisis among Australia’s allies. I was also quite interested in understanding what Australia saw as the future of the Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialog...2021-12-2826 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 8: Ikenberry on the impact of the US-China RivalryI was pleased to have John Ikenberry back in the virtual studio with us to focus in part on current American foreign policy under the Biden Administration. The immediate occasion was the recently concluded ‘Summit for Democracy’ called for by the President when he ran against then President Trump. More broadly I wanted to explore with John the rising tensions in the US-China relationship and its impact on the liberal international order that John has written and spoken about over the last two decades.
So join me and John as we explore current American foreign policy and how it is resh...2021-12-2427 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 26: David Victor on COP26 and technology in transitioning to a low carbon worldI was excited to invite back David Victor into the virtual studio to discuss the consequences of the COP26 Glasgow Summit on climate change and whether technology is the answer to our transition to a low carbon world. David was at Glasgow and he has been a voice for the importance of technologies in the effort to transition to a low carbon emission world.
David G. Victor is a global thought leader on climate change policy and the energy-systems transformation that is required if we hope to create a low-carbon future. David is a professor of innovation and public policy...2021-12-0932 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue: Ep. 25: Valerie Karplus on the upcoming COP26 Glasgow Summit and China’s Role in itI was pleased to invite Valerie Karplus into the virtual studio to examine the progress towards the upcoming COP26 Glasgow Summit scheduled for November 1 -12th. Many see this Summit as the best last chance to receive national commitments (NDCs) that will achieve the 45% cut based on 2010 levels, that scientists say is needed by 2030 to limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Will the key CO2 emitters – the US, China, India, Brazil, etc. be willing to make those kinds of commitments at Glasgow.
Valerie and colleagues recently released a new report: “China’s CO2 Emissions Trading System: History, Status, and Ou...2021-10-2935 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 7: Susan Thornton on Rising Tensions over Taiwan & US-China RivalrySusan Thornton was good enough to join me in the Virtual Studio to examine closely the US-China relationship and the rising tensions between the two over Taiwan. The podcast interview was a perfect opportunity to examine more closely with Susan the current Biden foreign policy of ‘competition without catastrophe’ with China and to assess particularly the risks of conflict between the two over Taiwan. Susan brings real knowledge of the current players in the Administration and insights from her many years in the State Department.
Susan was acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs when she retired from the...2021-10-1533 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep. 6: Ryan Hass on US-China Rivalry & the Emerging Global OrderRyan Hass joined me in the Virtual Studio to examine closely the US-China relationship and the rising tensions between the two. The podcast interview was a perfect opportunity to examine with Ryan early Biden foreign policy from a former US foreign policy official. Ryan brings real knowledge of the current players in the Administration and insights from his focus on China and Taiwan.
Ryan Hass is a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, where he holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East...2021-07-2339 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue: Ep. 24: Jonathan Luckhurst on the Informals and the upcoming Italian G20 SummitI was pleased to invite Jonathan Luckhurst into the virtual studio to examine the progress toward the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rome that occurs and the end of October. Jonathan has long been a student of the Informals including work on the G7 and the BRICS as well as the G20. He has worked with many in the G7 and G20 Research Groups at the University of Toronto. I wanted to get Jonathan into the Studio with several months to spare to examine the progress of the Italian. Presidency in the drive toward the G20 Leaders’ Summit.
Jonathan Luckhurst is a Pr...2021-07-1539 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 5: Michael Beckley on the Shape of the Emerging Global OrderIt was great pleasure to bring Michael Beckley into the Virtual Studio to discuss US-China tensions and rivalry and the consequences of these tensions for the evolving global order. Michael has written a dynamic series of articles in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy concerned with the US, China, and US-China relations. Michael has examined the threat, or not, of Xi Jinping’s China as well assessing what a more aggressive China means for the United States, especially its military posture and strategy in the key strategic flashpoints from the Taiwan Straits, the South China Sea and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific. So...2021-07-0139 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 4: Cheng Li on the Impact of the Shanghai Middle ClassThe new book by Cheng Li - Middle Class Shanghai: Reshaping US-China Engagement, published by Brookings was an excellent moment to bring Cheng Li into the Virtual Studio to explore the influence on the rise of the Middle Class but particularly Shanghai’s middle class on China’s foreign policy. There was so much to ask Cheng Li about the impact of the middle class on the Party and the Government. We will have to bring Cheng Li back but for now a real opportunity to explore Chinese foreign policy from a unique position, the transformation of political leaders, generational chan...2021-06-1645 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 23: An Interview with Stewart Patrick on Tackling BiodiversityI was pleased to invite into the virtual studio Stewart Patrick to discuss the many efforts to tackle the dramatic decline in biodiversity. Today, there are many summit initiatives underway to deal with the alarming decline in biodiversity. The need to reverse the decline in biodiversity is all too apparent. Humans have already transformed more than 70 percent of the planet’s ice-free land surface, primarily for agriculture and ranching, as well as for mining and human settlements. Around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history. There are ma...2021-06-1047 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 22: An Interview with Angel HsuIt was a pleasure to have Angel Hsu back in the Virtual Studio. As I have pointed out there will be a burst of Summits and Global Summits this fall 2021. Many of these summits will tackle various aspects of climate change and the impact on the Anthropocene.
To discuss the issues of climate action I could think of no one better than my colleague, Angel. Today, Angel is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also Founder and Director of the...2021-05-2740 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue Series, Ep. 21: An Interview with Josh BusbyIt was a pleasure to invite Joshua Busby back into the virtual studio to discuss the Leaders’ Earth Summit just recently concluded and the current state of climate efforts to reduce emissions and keep the average temperature to as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius ads possible. President Biden invited 40 world leaders to the Leaders’ Summit on Climate which he hosted virtually on April 22nd and 23rd.
The Summit brought together the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, which brought together the 17 countries responsible for approximately 80 percent of global emissions and global GDP. The President also invited the heads of other coun...2021-05-0446 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue: Ep. 20: An Interview with Paola Subacchi on the upcoming Italian G20 SummitWe are just entering the ‘Summit Season’ and I thought I would kick off the Season with a conversation with Paola Subacchi on the question of the Italian G20 Leaders’ Summit. Paola has been involved in G20 summits going back some years. And she has links to those organizing the Italian Rome Summit that will occur possibly in person in the fall.
Paola is a Professor of International Economics and Chair Advisory Board at the Global Policy Institute at Queen Mary, University of London, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Previo...2021-04-2841 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 3: Interview with Nick Bisley on the Changing Order in AsiaI invited Nick Bisley into the virtual studio to explore the changing dynamics of the global order in Asia. We have seen the conclusion recently of the RCEP, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership that includes 15 countries including China. In addition, in March we saw the first meeting of leaders of the Quad. The Quadrilateral Initiative made up of the United States, Japan, India and Australia was formed in 2007 but this was the first leaders meeting, though virtually. It was one of the first multilateral gatherings that included President Biden. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan noted that each of...2021-04-1441 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 2: Thomas Wright on The Alaska Summit and MoreI am pleased to welcome back to the virtual studio Thomas Wright from Brookings to explore Biden foreign policy in the wake of the first US-China Summit which took place on March 18th and 19th. What does this meeting between top foreign policy officials tell us about the Biden Administration’s foreign policy, especially between the United States and China? Have we entered Cold War 2.0 between China and the United States?
Tom is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. To...2021-04-0647 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep 24: An Interview with Peter Draper on reforms to the WTO & new trade constructionIt is my pleasure to sit with an old colleague who is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for International Trade in the Faculty of the Professions, University of Adelaide, Peter Draper. Much change is afoot in the trade world. First a new Director General has been seated at the WTO, Ngozi Okonjo - Iweala. The DG has much to tackle in the WTO that has been crippled by member actions, especially the Trump Administration. In the Asia - Pacific a new 15 member RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership)
has been signed and China has signed an investment agreement with...2021-03-1137 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue Series, Ep. 19: Bruce Jones on Democratic & Competitive MultilateralismBruce and I have had some back and forth recently on the definition and importance of Middle Powers in the current global order. I thought that it would be valuable to invite Bruce into the virtual studio to discuss the role and influence of the Middle Powers. In particular I wanted to review with Bruce his recent writings with several colleagues on ‘democratic multilateralism’ and ‘competitive multilateralism’. How could these shape global governance efforts going forward in light of the growing tensions between the two leading states – the United States and China.
Bruce Jones is currently the director and a senior fel...2021-02-1539 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order S2, Ep 1: Stuenkel on Brazil's Reaction to Jan 6 Violence in WashingtonIt was a pleasure to sit down again with Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel to discuss Brazil and the region. This session with Oliver was designed to focus on Brazilians’ reactions to the violence in Washington on January 6th.Also, I wanted an update on Brazil’s difficult struggle with the pandemic and the efforts in Brazil to roll out vaccinations against Covid-19. It has become clear that Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro has remained highly skeptical over ‘lock down’ measures to safeguard Brazilians. And the numbers of hospitalizations and deaths keep rising. What impact has all of this has on President...2021-01-2138 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 32: Hal Brands on China's 'Domination' & US-China CompetitionHal Brands is a contemporary historian that explores the current global order. He has focused, among other things, on the rising tensions and competition between China and the United States. With Jake Sullivan, a former Obama official and a non-resident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Geoeconomics and Strategy Program, they wrote an intriguing examination in Foreign Policy of the possible paths to global domination by China – “China has two paths to Global Domination.”I explore with Hal this article and ‘dig into’ current Trump foreign policy, especially towards China. Come join us for this global order conversation.
Hal Brands is an American...2020-08-2539 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 31-2: Colin Bradford and Yves Tiberghien on China-US RelationsIt was a great pleasure to welcome back both colleagues into the virtual studio to continue our discussion on the rising tensions in China-US relations it causes and its consequences for the liberal order. While Part 1 of this Episode 31 focused more the ‘China-West’ Dialogue (CWD) Project, this podcast cast a more critical light on the rising tensions between these two leading powers and other powers in the international system exploring in particular what could be down to avoid this growing rivalry.
As a reminder, Colin is a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution. Colin a sp...2020-06-3039 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 31-1: Colin Bradford and Yves Tiberghien on China-US RelationsIt was a great pleasure to welcome both colleagues into the virtual studio to discuss the rising tensions in China-US relations and consequences for the liberal order. We began this discussion – Part 1 of Episode 31 - with the efforts of Colin and Yves to initiate a ‘China-West’ Dialogue (CWD). This effort has brought together experts and former officials from around the globe seeking pathways to ameliorating China-US relations and suggesting a policy of ‘strategic engagement’ as opposed to ‘strategic competition’ or what some Democratic colleagues describe as ‘competition without catastrophe’.
Colin is a Non-resident Senior Fellow of the Global Economy and Development Progra...2020-06-2440 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 30: Scott Kennedy on China-US Relations and Hong KongIt was a great pleasure to invite Scott Kennedy into the virtual studio to discuss China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) just recently concluded. There decisions were announced on Hong Kong, with respect to the Chinese economy. These decisions formed the most recent backdrop to the rising tensions between Beijing and the current Trump Administration. In the light of earlier podcast episodes here at Global Summitry (these podcast episodes can be found at iTunes and at Spotify) with Kerry Brown (Ep. 28 and 29) on Xi Jinping’s China, we wanted to get Scott’s take on China and the US-China tensions...2020-06-0945 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 29: Kerry Brown on 'Dual Architecture' in Global GovernanceAs most international relations specialists would agree, the most consequential relationship now, and for the foreseeable future in the global order, is that between China and the West. There is a growing rivalry between China and the United States, and the rising tensions raises difficult global order questions for all the actors in the international system.
Kerry Brown is one of a number of China and international relations experts that have joined the Vision20 principals to examine the future of global order in the face of a growing tension between the two leading states in the international system, the United...2020-05-2037 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now,’ Ep. 23: Nick Bisley on Australia’s Response to Covid-19It is a pleasure to welcome back Nick Bisley, an international relations expert from La Trobe University in Melbourne. We were keen to sit down with him in the virtual studio to examine Australia’s response to the global pandemic. We were most interested to understand the relative success of the Australian effort to flatten the curve of infections of the virus when it was clear that Australia had suffered a crisis of competence in dealing with the bush fires that had ravaged Australia in its summer. (Please listen to the ‘Now’ Series Ep. 18: an interview with Steven Slaughter ‘Australia Burning’...2020-05-1837 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now,' Ep. 22: Lim Wonhyuk on South Korea’s Response to Covid-19Lim Wonhyuk has long been involved in global governance issues and the role of Korea in in the regional and international system. I first got to know Lim Wonhyuk when we were both involved in Korea’s year of G20 hosting in 2010. It was a great pleasure to invite Lim Wonhyuk into the virtual studio to explore Korea’s seemingly successful effort to control the pandemic there. It is a fascinating story of earlier failure in public health leading to the current success of the government efforts and being able to hold an election on April 15th.
Lim Wonhyuk is curr...2020-05-1234 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 21: Brooking’s Thomas Wright on the United Kingdom and Ireland’s Responses to Covid-19It is a pleasure to welcome back Tom Wright to the ‘Now’ Series to review the United Kingdom and Ireland’s responses to the pandemic. Tom remains the director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow there on the Project on International Order and Strategy. Tom has been very busy on examining Europe’s responses to Covid-19 as well as the Trump Administration’s response. He has also been closely following U.S.-China relations and the Trump efforts to ‘call-out’ China’s pandemic responses.
This podcast is one in a series in the...2020-05-0735 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep.20: Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel on Brazil’s Response to Covid-19It was a pleasure to sit down again with Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel to discuss Brazil and indeed the region. This session with Oliver was designed to focus on Brazil’s response to the pandemic. It has become clear that Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has remained highly skeptical over ‘lock down’ measures to safeguard Brazilians. He has fired the Minister of Health and, more recently, the politically influential Justice Minister Sergio Moro has resigned and accused the President of criminal conduct. We were eager to understand how Brazilians viewed the President’s actions and the consequences for his government, especially...2020-05-0337 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now', Ep.19: Torrey Taussig on Europe’s Response to Covid-19The spread of Covid-19 across the globe dominates policy making everywhere. States have responded in a variety of ways; the consequences for these states are varying population spread and death tolls. Though the virus began in China some of the most serious consequences have been felt in Europe particularly in Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
It was my pleasure to invite into the virtual studio Torrey Taussig. I was particularly keen to discuss with her the efforts of the EU 27 and the European Commission to adopt collective European efforts to combat the virus. Torrey was with us at our...2020-04-3028 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 18: Matthew Goodman on the G20's Response to COVID-19We were glad to welcome back Matthew Goodman from CSIS in Washington. As you can see from his short bio below, Matt has had both public and private sector roles and has been directly involved with the G20 in past U.S. administrations.
Matt has ben working with colleagues Stephanie Segal and Mark Sobel to evaluate the G20 summits. This analysis can be found at the CSIS website. It prompted Global Summitry to get back in touch with Matt to bring him into the virtual studio to discuss how the Informals and the formal institutions are responding to the pandemic...2020-04-0735 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 28: Kerry Brown on Chinese Leadership in China-West RelationsAs most international relations specialists would agree, the most consequential relationship now, and for the foreseeable future in the global order is that between China and the West. Yes, I do not say the U.S. Instead it is West. That does not mean that many do not see this as primarily a U.S.-China rivalry. But for others this not a retelling of the Cold war.
Among the China experts we are so very pleased to welcome to a new Vision 20 Project, the CWD (China and the West Project, is Professor Kerry Brown. His insights into China policy...2020-03-0928 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep. 18: Steven Slaughter on ‘Australia Burning’: The Politics of Climate ChangeThe recent horrific Australian bush fires appear be largely out. These bush fires reflect both a sad tale of land burned and enormous loss of unique wildlife. It also appears to reveal a federal government policy resistant to dramatic change to combat the growing threat of climate change.
As Damien Cave’s recent piece (February 15, 2020) in the NYTimes quoted an Australian filmmaker: “I am standing here a traveler from a new reality, a burning Australia,” Lynette Wallworth, an Australian filmmaker, told a crowd of international executives and politicians in Davos, Switzerland, last month. “What was feared and what was warned is no lo...2020-02-2028 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 17: Phillip Lipscy on Japanese Leadership in the Liberal OrderMy guest and I were fortunate enough to attend a recent conference at the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Japanese Research Workshop on “Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order”. Many Japanese scholars joined experts from North America to discuss the role of Japan in the liberal international order, especially under the current Abe Government.
I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to sit down with at least one scholar to discuss Japan’s evolving role. I was fortunate enough in this case to welcome Phillip Lipscy in our studio here at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Pu...2020-02-1732 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep.16: Jennifer Allan & Matthew Hoffmann on COP25 and What is Needed at COP26Both Jennifer and Matthew attended COP 25 in Madrid. So, I wanted to get a first-hand reflection on the meeting and the results achieved. I also wanted to get from them their own assessment of the state of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. Finally, I wanted to discuss with Jennifer and Matt what is needed for the upcoming COP26 that is meeting in Glasgow five years after the successful conclusion of the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Are we on track, and if not as it appears to be, what can be done at COP26?
Jennifer Allan is a writer/editor at ‘Ea...2020-01-2734 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep. 17: Thomas Wright on the UK in a Post-Brexit EraThomas Wright and I turned from podcast Episode 27 of ‘Shaking the Global Order: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump’ and the U.S.-Iran rivalry, to all the issues surrounding the election of Boris Johnson and his Conservatives in the U.K. in December, and examine the consequences for Brexit, the U.K. and the EU. The future here for all is dramatic. And Tom has a lot to say about England, Scotland, Ireland and the EU.
Tom is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on Inte...2020-01-1526 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 27: Thomas Wright on the Iran-US Crisis and General SoleimaniIt was opportunistic but very fortunate that I had the opportunity to welcome back to our studio and to sit down with Thomas Wright to explore with him Trump’s logic, strategy and motivation in targeting General Qasem Soleimani of Iran.
I had originally contacted with Tom to discuss the election of the Boris Johnson and his Conservatives in the UK in December, and examine the consequences for the Brexit, the UK and the EU. That podcast can be found at Episode 17 in the ‘Now’ Series. But I could not pass op the opportunity to sit down with Tom to examin...2020-01-1315 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 16: Jake Sullivan on Democratic Foreign Policy and the US-China RivalryJake Sullivan was the youngest head of Policy Planning in the State Department under the Obama Administration. During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, Jake was Hillary Clinton’s policy advisor. Currently Jake is the Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, a senior fellow and Master in Public Policy faculty member at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire and a non-resident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Geoeconomics and Strategy Program. In addition, Jake is the co-chair, along with Ben Rhodes of the National Security Action an organization of former senior officials and policy experts, academics and civi...2019-10-3136 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 15: Sheri Berman on the Crisis of Democracy in EuropeWe were fortunate enough to have Sheri Berman join us recently at the annual American Political Science Association meeting in Washington. There she described the crisis of democracy across Europe in the round table's larger discussion of ‘The Strange Death – and Possible Rebirth - of the Liberal Order’. Sheri, following her recent publication of Democracy and Dictatorship: From the Ancien Regime to the Present Day has a great deal to say about the rise of populism and the threats to democratic politics in Europe both in the established democracies of western Europe and new democracies in central Europe. With Sheri we wer...2019-09-2644 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 14: Michael Swaine on Scholars and Expertise on US-China RelationsIf you enjoyed ‘Now’ Ep 13 with Susan Thorton – and I am sure you did - I expect you equally will enjoy this podcast with Michael Swaine. Michael was central to the preparation and publication of ‘China is not an Enemy’, the Open Letter in the Washington Post (WP) by Michael, Susan and their colleagues Taylor Fravel, J. Stapleton Roy and Ezra Vogel. With Michael we not only explore the reasons for this Open Letter but look at the various publications and views out of Washington that this Open Letter takes on. Michael responds to views expressed by WPs John Pomfret, former UN...2019-09-0454 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 13: Susan Thorton on ‘China is not an enemy’On July 3rd, 5 principals published a Scholars’ and Experts’ letter (Letter) in the Washington Post (WP) entitled ‘China is not an enemy’. Taylor Fravel, J. Stapleton Roy, Michael D Swaine, Ezra Vogel and Susan Thornton were the five who shepherded the letter to publication in the Opinion section of the WP. The Letter raised a fair degree of notice as it pushed back against those in the Community and in the U.S. Administration, who urged support for the Trump China policy including support for the current U.S.-China Trade War. This podcast with Susan was designed to understand how the...2019-08-2440 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 15: Jia Qingguo on the Japan G20 Summit and the Growing US-China TensionsTo round out our Summit Dialogue series on the Osaka G20, I sat down with Jia Qingguo to examine the results of the Osaka Summit as seen from the Chinese government. I also took the opportunity to review with Jia Qingguo the state of US-China relations in the context of the growing trade war set off by President Trump.
Jia Qingguo was until recently the Dean of the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University (Beida). Jia Qingguo received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and taught at a number of schools including in the United States. He is...2019-08-1035 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 14: Bertrand Badre on the Japanese G20 Summit – A European PerspectiveI could not forego an opportunity to sit down in the virtual studio at Global Summitry to discuss the G20 Osaka Summit with my colleague Bertrand Badre. Bertrand maintains strong transatlantic ties and so I was eager both to discuss the Summit from a European perspective and to get a closer look at European politics at the EU and at national levels.
In his career, Bertrand has held both private and public roles especially in the national and global financial system. From 2004 and 2007, Bertrand was a managing director of Lazard in Paris and responsible for the Financial Services Group and...2019-08-0231 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 13: Masahiro Kawai on the Japanese G20 Summit in OsakaThis podcast with Masahiro Kawai continues our country tour focused on the Osaka G20 Summit. Japan was, of course a key actor for this Summit with its hosting of this year’s annual G20 Summit. With growing competition between powers - China, Russia and the United States – the hosting has placed even greater pressure on those countries that host the annual G20. Japan also had a stressful year as a result of other events – the abdication of the Emperor and elections for the Upper Chamber. These events led Japan to initiate a truncated period before the Leaders’ Summit which took place on...2019-07-2449 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 12: Matthew Goodman on the Japanese G20 Summit in Osaka (A US Perspective)We begin the country tour of the major G20 members with Ep 12. Matthew Goodman is our guest from CSIS in Washington. As his short bio below will tell you, Matt has had both public and private sector roles and has been directly involved with the G20 in past administrations.
If nothing else, as noted in Ep 11 with Yves Tiberghien, the G20 Summit was filled with pageantry – principally Donald Trump’s. There is a series of Trump events – meeting with China’s Xi Jinping over the US-China trade war, and, as it turns out, a rather vague agreement providing a truce in the t...2019-07-1151 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 11: Yves Tiberghien on the Japanese G20 Summit in OsakaWith this Ep 11 podcast we begin a series on the Japanese Osaka Summit. First up is Yves Tiberghien from the University of British Columbia. It is a great pleasure to welcome Yves back to the podcast studio.
If nothing else this G20 Summit was filled with pageantry – principally Donald Trump’s. There is a series of Trump events – meeting with China’s Xi Jinping over the US-China trade war, and, as it turns out, an agreement to provide a truce in the tariff increases by the United States while negotiations resume, his encounters with Vladimir Putin and the breakfast with the Saud...2019-07-0438 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 12: Thomas Wright on ‘Europe – Where to From Here’?It is a pleasure to welcome back Tom Wright to the ‘Now’ Series the podcast series that focuses on the contemporary issues in international affairs and global governance. Tom remains the director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow there on the Project on International Order and Strategy. His research at Brookings on European politics and the impact that politics has on Europe, the European Union as well as that politics of the Trans-Atlantic community is exactly why we invited Tom to return to the Global Summitry studio.
Tom has been...2019-06-2131 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 26: John J. Mearsheimer on "Offensive Realism" in Foreign PolicyIt was with great pleasure that I welcomed into the virtual studio John J. Mearsheimer. John is one of the leading exponents of the School of Realism in international relations. With his book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, published in 2001, John described and elaborated the foreign policy theory and practice of “Offensive Realism”.
John has been a persistent critic of U.S. foreign policy critics and their creation and elaboration of the liberal international order. His critique has been fully argued in his two most recent works: the book The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, published in 2018 and...2019-05-2755 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 25: Rebecca Friedman Lissner on "Open" American Foreign PolicyDefining American foreign policy and the Global Order has become
increasingly complicated. This next podcast gives us yet another
opportunity to tackle this difficult issue.
Rebecca Friedman Lissner has written a number of articles, some with her colleague Mira Rapp-Hooper, on just this topic. In late 2017, Rebecca wrote an article in Foreign Affairs reviewing the Trump Administration’s just released National Security Policy – “The National Security Strategy is Not a Strategy”. Then in the Washington Quarterly in 2018 with her colleague Mira Rapp-Hooper they wrote: “The Day after Trump: American Strategy for a New International Order”. And most recently with Mira the two have...2019-05-0339 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 10: Julia Pomares on the Argentinian G20 and the Japanese G20It was an opportunity I could not pass up. So, I sat down to interview Julia Pomares. Julia is the Executive Director of CIPPEC, - the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth, a major think tank from Argentina. CIPPEC, along with a sister think tank, CARI - the Argentine Council for International Relations, coordinated the think tank efforts for the Argentinian Government’s G20 hosting year. I spent some time with Julia during Argentina’s hosting year and have had the opportunity to work with Julia in the current Japanese G20 hosting. I was very inte...2019-04-2235 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 24: Jentleson, Schake, Stein, and Tiberghien on the Liberal OrderRecently, the City of Toronto was ‘ground zero’ for the 60th anniversary meeting of the International Studies Association (ISA). Thousands of colleagues gathered in Toronto to attend, roundtables, panels, and participate in presenting papers and receiving honors for their work on international relations. The occasion was far too ‘juicy’ to just let it pass. So, I gathered up some of my good friends to talk about the Liberal Order.
This podcast includes some of my colleagues from abroad. The gathering at our ‘studio’ - actually the lounge on the second floor of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy – included: Bruc...2019-04-051h 09Global Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 11: Jeremy Paltiel on Chinese Foreign Policy and the Current China-Canada TensionsThe decision by the Trump Administration to impose tariffs on China and demand changes to the bilateral trade and investment policies has had serious consequences for U.S.-China relations. But the fallout has not been limited to U.S. China relations. This podcast with Jeremy Paltiel explores the rising tensions in the bilateral relationship, or more broadly the relationship of ‘China and the West’. With Jeremy I explore the rising tensions in the Canada-China relationship arising from the U.S. request to Canadian authorities to extradite Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and the daughter of its...2019-03-1856 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 10: Yves Tiberghien on China’s Leadership and the Growing US-China Tensions‘Now’ Episode 10 is a wide-ranging discussion with Yves Tiberghien first: on the leadership of Xi Jinping and where Xi is attempting to take China’s modernization and; second an examination of the course, and reasons for, the rising tensions between China and the United States. This interview examines in depth the rising role of the Chinese Communist Party in China’s economic development. Why has the Chinese President seemingly rolled back the economic reforms identified in the Third Plenum of the 18th Party Conference? Then, we explore the direction of China-U.S. policy – trade, investment, technology innovation and geopolitical relations in Asia an...2019-02-2751 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 9: Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel on Brazil’s New Populist President and GovernmentWith the election of a new populist president in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, I thought it was a great moment to sit down with our Brazilian colleague, Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel from Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this podcast we explore why Brazil was so interested in electing this rather controversial politician as president. We also wanted to explore the economic policies that the new finance minister, Paulo Guedes is promoting to bring strong economic growth back to Brazil. Guedes supports a strong Chicago School economic program much in contrast to previous governments there.
Oliver is an associate professor of international relations...2019-02-0134 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 9: Joshua Busby on “Global Efforts to Limit Carbon Emissions”There has been a ‘raft’ of environmental reports and climate change summits in the very recent past. I’ve called on Joshua Busby to discuss these summits and the reports and to give us some sense of the success in the global efforts to reduce carbon emissions. Josh is an Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Josh has been deeply involved in the efforts to mitigate climate change. Busby is the author of several studies on climate change, national security, and en...2019-01-2845 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 8: Miles Kahler on “Who are the Global Governors Today?”International Relations’ experts have come to recognize that there are many more actors in global governance today than in international relations in the past. There are states and intergovernmental institutions, of course, but today there are a variety of sub-state and non-state actors (NSAs) that are involved in meeting the growing challenges of global governance.
It is our good fortune to have Miles Kahler, the Distinguished Professor of the School of International Service at American University, Washington D.C. with us here in the studio and in fact Miles has been with us at the Munk School of Global Affairs an...2018-12-1535 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 23: Stephen Walt on a Realist American Foreign PolicyStephen Walt has just published, The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy (see NYTimes Review). It seemed like the appropriate moment to interview Stephen. This new book by Stephen ranges broadly across American foreign policy. Stephen provides a strong critique of U.S. foreign policy and the effort by what Stephen refers to as the ‘foreign policy community’ to maintain a policy of ‘liberal hegemony’. Stephen heavily criticizes the foreign policy elite for maintaining this policy in the face of very serious failures including in Afghanistan and in Iraq. The interview...2018-11-2951 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 22: James Goldgeier on American Foreign Policy and TrumpThe turbulence in the liberal international order continues. And we are pleased to bring a new episode, Ep. 22 of the series, ‘Shaking the Global Order: American Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump’. We were pleased to sit down with James Goldgeier to examine in this latest podcast American foreign policy and the impact of President Trump.
James is a Professor of International relations at the School of International Service at American University. James served as Dean there from 2011 to 2017. James is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and at the Library of Congress he is c...2018-11-1941 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 8: Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel on the Refugee Crisis in Latin AmericaI took the opportunity when sitting down with Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel to discuss the BRICS (Summit Dialogue: Episode 6) to raise with Oliver the serious refugee crisis that engulfs a number of Latin American states arising from the Venezuelan political crisis. This refugee crisis is unmatched in recent Latin American history and has hit a number of frontline states including Columbia, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador and Argentina. For a hemisphere that has advanced a number of regional organizations, it is startling to see the lack of regional effort, if only with respect to the humanitarian aspects of this crisis. Why has...2018-10-2425 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 7: Angel Hsu on the Global Climate Action SummitThis is an exceptional podcast in this ‘Summit Dialogue’ series. First, it is our pleasure to interview Yale’s Angel Hsu, the founder and director of Data-Driven Yale. We have corralled Angel to discuss the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) that was held in San Francisco from September 12-14, 2018. This summit is a notable event called by California’s Governor Jerry Brown and Michael Bloomberg. The attendees included many sub-state actors from provinces and states, municipalities and regions (some 6,000) and many, many non-state actors including foundations, activists and private corporations (some 2,000). These actors were intent in promoting efforts and commitments on carbo...2018-10-1836 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 6: Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel on the 10th BRICS Summit in South AfricaI sat recently to discuss the most recent BRICS Summit – the 10th anniversary summit in Johannesburg, South Africa with my colleague and friend Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel. Notwithstanding much criticism of the BRICS, especially from observers from the West, the annual BRICS summit meetings have remained a serous gathering of these emerging market country leaders. There is a growing list of meetings among BRICS officials and the BRICS have created a variety of international institutions, most notably the New Development Bank. I therefore was keen to explore with Oliver the evolution and impact of the BRICS summit on international governance.
Ol...2018-09-2625 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 7: Harry G. Broadman on the Impact of the US-China Trade War on Global LeadershipThe rising tide of President Trump’s trade warfare is not more central than in the U.S.-China relationship. With Harry G. Broadman we target the rising friction between these two economic giants. Is the Trump trade strategy – so focused on bilateral trade balances - likely to improve economic relations between the U.S. and China? Will it help prod China in fulfilling and adhering to its obligations under the World Trade Organization, to which it acceded in 2001?
To dissect such questions and other matters coloring U.S.-China trade, we examine with Harry the evolution of China’s ‘socialis...2018-09-0447 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 5: Andrew F. Cooper on the BRICS: Past, Present and FutureThe leader-led BRICS forum has received much attention in the international relations. Initiated as an acronym in 2001 by Jim O’Neill at Goldman Sachs to capture a set of large emerging market economies with high growth potential – Brazil, Russia, India and China – Russian officials organized this group first as informal gatherings of the Foreign Ministers and then in 2009 the first leaders’ summit in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Leaders’ summits have continued from that point forward. Notably in 2011 at the China Sanya Summit, South Africa was invited to join the BRICS which went from the BRICs to the BRICS. Notwithstanding much skepticism by observers...2018-08-2247 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep. 6: Thomas Wright on the Crises Haunting EuropeIt is a pleasure to welcome back Thomas Wright from the Brookings Institution. Tom is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. His research at Brookings on European politics and the Trump foreign policy are exactly what suggested our callback to Tom. In this podcast we explore with Tom the growing frictions between President Trump and his European allies. We also seek to understand the growing populist politics in Europe - in Italy, in Germany and in the politics of...2018-08-0242 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 21: Bruce Jentleson on Trump vs. the Liberal OrderThe strains on the Liberal International Order continue apace. The antagonism between President Trump and allied leaders were on full display at the recent G7 Charlevoix meeting. Though the leaders had reached consensus on the Communique, Trump subsequently withdrew the U.S. endorsement and tweeted that Prime Minister Trudeau, the host of this year’s G7 was “Very dishonest & weak.” Now the allies are meeting at the NATO Summit on July 11-12, 2018 where President Trump is likely to press his view that the allies are failing to live up to the spending commitments. Meanwhile, President Trump continues his summit dialogues with r...2018-07-1146 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 20: Bruce Jones on N. Korea-US Summit RelationsThe liberal international order is showing increased strain as President Trump continues to conduct U.S. foreign policy. So, much has been happening recently: the chaos of the G7 Charlevoix gathering with President Trump withdrawing the U.S. signature from the summit communiqué. The on-again off-again summit between North Korea’s Kim Jung Un and President Trump took place on June 12th leaving most grasping to understand what the two leaders had in fact agreed to at the Singapore summit. These and other actions formed the core of the podcast discussion with Bruce Jones.
Bruce is the Vice President and Dir...2018-06-3040 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 4: Mark Beeson on ASEAN and regional politics of East and Southeast AsiaThe geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific, or the Indo-Pacific, as the Trump Administration has referred to the Asia-Pacific is a critical aspect of international politics and today’s global order. This podcast very fortunately tackles the politics of the region with one of the true experts there, Professor Mark Beeson of the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth Australia. In the podcast we have the opportunity to review the history of the ASEAN which today includes ten countries in Southeast Asia. This summit has been ongoing since 1967 and most recently ASEAN leaders gathered in Singapore for the 32nd Summit. What ha...2018-06-1145 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 3: Oliver Della Costa Stuenkel on the ‘Summit of the Americas’This Series undertakes interviews with academics, policymakers and in particular former officials exploring the current and past architecture of summits and the state of global order policy-making.
This podcast with Oliver Stuenkel is a full conversation exploring the hemispheric summit – the ‘Summit of the Americas’ and the regional politics of Latin America. Recently, leaders in the Western Hemisphere met for the 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima Peru. President Trump decided to avoid the Summit, the first American President to do so since this triennial meeting of leaders was inaugurated by President Bill Clinton. In fact, less than half the le...2018-05-3158 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts‘Now’, Ep. 5: Chris Alden and Maxi Schoeman on South Africa in International RelationsIn this ‘Now’ podcast we explore the state of politics in South Africa and the continuing role of South Africa in international relations.
South Africa has just gone through dramatic political change. First, Cyril Ramaphosa, long a member of the African National Congress (ANC), and a close colleague to Nelson Mandela, gained the presidency of the ANC. And then Ramaphosa and his colleagues were able to ‘ease out’ Jacob Zuma from the post of President of South Africa that Zuma has held for the last 9 years. The ANC will face national elections in 2019 with Cyril Ramaphosa likely as the President.
In the f...2018-03-2644 min
Global Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 19: Stewart Patrick on Trump's 'America First' Foreign PolicyThis podcast with Stewart Patrick was done while Stewart was visiting us here at the Munk School of Global Affairs to talk to about his new book, Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World. In the ‘plush’ podcast studio, Stewart and I sat down to explore what the book tells us about American foreign policy and the impact of Donald Trump on American international behavior. In addition, we explore with Stewart the consequences of a Trump ‘America First’ foreign policy for America’s role in the eight summits that are scheduled for this coming year. Are we likely to see the kind o...2018-02-1654 min
Global Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 18: Peter Feaver on Trump's National Security StrategyIn this podcast Peter Feaver examines closely the Trump Administration’s first National Security Strategy or NSS. What does the NSS tell us, and not tell us about the Trump Administration’s foreign and security policy. Additionally, we have the opportunity to question Peter on Trump trade policy, his policy toward the Korean Peninsula and Iran and more generally Trump’s policies towards allies and adversaries. Peter is a professor of political science and public policy at Duke University. He is the Director there of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies and also Director of the Duke Program in American Grand...2018-02-1453 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 17: Matthew Goodman on Trump's 'America First' Policy in AsiaIn this podcast, Matthew Goodman, gives us a tour de force of Trump policy in Asia and the ‘big question’ what will be the consequences for the liberal international order of a Trump administration. Matthew is currently the William E Simon Chair in Political Economy and the Senior Adviser for Economics at CSIS, the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Matthew has served in both the private sector at Goldman Sachs and Albright Stonebridge Group and has also held a number of significant roles in the public sector including early in his career as an international economist at the...2017-12-2846 min
Global Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 16: Kori Schake on US Policies in Trade, Korea, and IranIn this podcast Kori Schake tackles the main elements of the Trump Administration foreign and security policy. With Kori at the helm, we explore Trump’s policies in trade, the Korean peninsula, Iran and generally America’s leadership role – with allies and adversaries – in the liberal international order. Kori has operated close-in to U.S. military and security affairs with stints at the Defense Department, the National Security Council and the State Department during the first term of George W. Bush. She was as well a senior policy advisor to the McCain-Palin campaign in the 2008 Presidential election. Kori has also written...2017-12-0249 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 15: Bernstein & Hoffmann on Climate Change Post-Paris AccordJoined by Steven Bernstein and Matthew Hoffmann.2017-11-1045 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 14: Joseph Nye Jr. on Conflict in the Cyber WorldIn this podcast, we engage Harvard’s Joseph Nye Jr. in a wide-ranging conversation about cyber security. Joe has been at the forefront of the examination of critical issues in international relations. Recently, he has turned his attention to the impact of cyber security, cyber espionage and cyber warfare on international relations. Cyber has emerged as a critical feature of conflict in today’s international relations and the relationship of great powers including the United States, China and Russia. For further analysis of the cyber world see Trey Herr’s article here at Global Summitry called, “Governing Proliferation in Cybersecurity”. [Caroline c...2017-11-0330 min
Global Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 13: Jake Sullivan on Democratic Alternatives to Trump's PoliciesJake Sullivan was the youngest head of Policy Planning in the State Department under the Obama Administration. During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, Jake was Hillary Clinton’s policy advisor. In this podcast, Jake discusses Democratic alternatives to the Trump Administration’s policy in critical foreign policy areas such as trade and globalization. Jake also assesses the Trump Administration’s policy with respect to the crisis in the Korean Peninsula, Russia, alliance politics, and the institutions of liberal internationalism that the United States help construct over the last seventy years.2017-10-0633 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep. 4: Daniel Druckman and Peter Wallensteen on United States-Russian SummitryIn this ‘Now’ podcast we get a chance to extend the examination of summits with two very eminent peace and conflict academics. Daniel Druckman and Peter Wallensteen prepared an article for Global Summitry that we published in Volume 2, Issue 2, entitled “Summit Meetings: Good or Bad for Peace?” The article sought to understand whether summit meetings between contending states have an impact on their relations that relate to war or conflict outcomes. The analysis and conclusions were drawn from a new data set that these scholars had created on summits between the Soviet Union, now Russia, and the United States. The data set...2017-08-2935 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 12: Janice Stein on Trump in Hamburg's G20 SummitIn our latest interview with Professor Janice Stein, we examine the impact of President Trump and his policies on the most recent G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. We also discuss US foreign policy in a number of critical areas including the Middle East, North Korea, and Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin.
Professor Stein is one of Canada’s leading authorities on global affairs. She is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management at the University of Toronto and served as the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University. For more on Professor Stein’s views, tune i...2017-07-2133 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 11: David Victor on Carbon Transitions Post-Paris AccordThis interview with David Victor examines the complicated requirements for the transition to a low carbon economy. David discusses questions of fossil fuel pricing, the role of coal and carbon capture and storage (CCS), the impact of innovation on the road to deep decarbonization, the adequacy of today’s electric grids and the consequences of the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord. David is a professor of international relations at UCSD and the director of the School’s Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. He has been a contributor to the UNFCCC’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...2017-07-1430 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 10: Thomas Hale on US Withdrawal Post-Paris AccordThis interview with Thomas Hale is the first in a new podcast series titled “Climate Change Policy in the Aftermath of the Paris Accord.” Thomas Hale is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Professor Hale has written a great deal on managing transnational problems and climate change specifically. In this podcast, we explore the origin of the Paris Accord and the consequences of the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the agreement. For a previous discussion on the Paris Accord featuring Sir David King, check out Episode 5 of Global Summitry Podcas2017-06-1627 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 9-2: Daniel Deudney on Trump's Policies in Syria and RussiaWe hope you have had a chance to listen to the first of this two-part podcast, which features Daniel Deudney’s examination of Trump’s trade and climate change policy. In the second half of our interview, we explore the possible impact of Trump administration policy in: Syria, relations with Russia and the overall ‘big question’– Trump’s impact on US leadership in the Liberal Order.2017-05-2532 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 9-1: Daniel Deudney on Trump's Policies in Trade and Climate ChangeThis podcast interview with Daniel Deudney of Johns Hopkins University is presented in two parts. In the first of this two-part podcast, Daniel focuses on Trump trade policy and Trump climate change policy. Daniel is critical of both and explores what the consequences of Trump policy in the areas of trade and climate change may have on the Liberal Order.2017-05-1627 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 8: Nick Bisley on Australia's Take on TrumpIn this interview with Nick Bisley an international relations expert from La Trobe University in Melbourne, we examine the reactions from ‘down under’ to Trump foreign policy. Australia is one of America’s key allies in the Liberal Order in Asia. The early ‘rocky start’ to Australia - Trump foreign policy’ relations raises many of the key issues in US foreign policy in the Age of Trump. Where does Trump’s ‘America First’ approach stand today and how do Australia’s leaders react to it? If the US in the Age of Trump is no longer willing automatically to step up to global leaders...2017-05-0637 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 7: Thomas Wright on Trump's Consistent Politics since the '80sIn this interview with Thomas Wright of Brookings, we begin a discussion of US foreign policy in the Age of Trump with a look back at citizen Trump’s views of US global economic and political policies. Wright has argued for some time that Trump has held a remarkably coherent and critical view of American foreign policy since the 1980s. We then delve into the elements of Trump’s ‘America First’ policies and examine how, or if, those foreign policy elements have changed since Trump became president. Where does his ‘America First’ approach stand today, whether looking at trade policy, US alliance...2017-04-2132 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 6: Miles Kahler on Trump's Changes to America's Global OrderThis is another interview on the critical subject of American foreign policy in the Age of Trump. Like other podcasts in this series, this podcast explores the changes under President Trump and his officials to American foreign policy and its consequences for the Global Order that America constructed over the last 70 years.
Miles Kahler is currently a Distinguished Professor at School of International Service American University and a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has had a distinguishes career at various universities including Princeton and the University of California at San Diego. He is today one of the...2017-04-1029 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 5: Rory MacFarquhar on Trump's Changes to America's Global OrderThis is the first of several interviews on American foreign policy under Donald Trump. President Trump as a candidate rejected many of the foundations of the Global Order that the United States helped establish. Whether initiatives on free trade, relations with allies or rivals, the construction of numerous multilateral institutions, candidate Trump, now President Trump, urged radically different American foreign policy approaches. These interviews will explore the changes to American foreign policy and its consequences for the Global Order that America constructed over the last 70 years.
We begin with an interview with Rory MacFarquhar. Rory is currently a visiting fellow...2017-04-1033 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 1: The Right Honourable Paul Martin on a Vision for the G20This podcast interview with the Right Honorable Paul Martin, interviewer Alan Alexandroff, a Senior Editor here at Global Summitry, is the embedded podcast accompanying Mr. Martin’s video text. This video was delivered at the opening of the Vision 20 meeting in China (March 29th to April 1st) at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. As the Editor’s Note in the text points out, the V20 brought together scholars from various international policy fields, think tank leaders, civil society and private sector representatives and various government leaders, all to generate ideas and actionable items for the long and medium term in glob...2017-03-2514 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep. 3: M. Taylor Fravel on the China SeasIn the 'Flashpoints' article by MIT's M. Taylor Fravel, "Explaining China's Escalation over the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands", Taylor examines the conflict between China and Japan in the East China Sea. In this Now podcast, senior editor Alan Alexandroff discusses with Taylor the issue that have raised tensions there but then goes on to explores in some depth with Taylor the many issues in the South China Sea. The tensions in the South China Sea have been in the headlines recently with the award by the Law of the Sea arbitration tribunal (a claim was filed by the Philippines in 2013 against...2017-03-2530 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep. 2: The Threat to Peacebuilding in BurundiIn this 'Now' podcast, senior editor Alan Alexandroff introduces Mike Jobbins. Mike is the director of Global Affairs at Search for Common Ground (SFCG) a leading conflict transformation organization. SFCG has been in Burundi for the last 20 years working on peacebuilding in a deeply conflicted nation. Mike and his colleagues have prepared an article for Global Summitry entitled "Peacebuilding and Crisis Prevention in Burundi's 2015 Election Crisis". This article should be available shortly here at Global Summitry but with the rising tensions in the country, the senior editor explores with Mike the current reasons for the crisis in this troubled African...2017-03-2527 minGlobal Summitry Podcasts'Now', Ep. 1: The Crisis of European ImmigrationIn this first podcast for the Now podcast series for Global Summitry, senior editor Alan Alexandroff introduces Sara Mojtehedzadeh. Sara is currently working with the Toronto Star but has done stints at Sky News in Europe and the BBC World Service. While at the BBC, as you will hear, Sara examined the early migration flood from the Middle East and Africa. In this latest podcast she examines the growing crisis of immigration. Thousands of asylum seekers, refugees and economic immigrants are flooding into Europe with the hope of reaching the key European Union countries, especially Germany. Like the Greek debt...2017-03-2512 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 4: Sir David King on COP 21 and "Mission Innovation"This podcast with Sir David King marks the Journal’s first foray into climate change and global governance issues, actors and arrangements. Sir David has been centrally involved in the creation of two potentially very important entities in the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and move to low carbon emission strategies for states. Sir David, appointed by the Foreign Secretary as the new permanent Special Representative for Climate Change, along with a number of other notables including Sir David Attenborough, Lord Stern, Lord O’Donnell and Lord Layard launched the Global Apollo Programme in June 2015 designed to advance research on rene...2017-03-2529 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 3: Jonathan Kirshner on the Future of the Global Economic OrderThis podcast with Jonathan Kirshner and GS ‘caps off’ a close examination by GS of global financial governance and an evaluation of the state of the global economy. Jonathan Kirshner is a professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His most recent book in the area is American Power after the Financial Crisis. Jonathan’s interview accompanies two articles in Volume 2, Issue 1 – Eric Helleiner’s “Legacies of the 2008 Crisis for Global Financial Governance” and Henry Farrell’s “Globalized Green Lanternism". Together the podcast and articles provide deep insights into the current state of the global economic or...2017-03-2526 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 2: Danny Bradlow on South Africa's Participation in the G20This podcast interview with Danny Bradlow is the accompanying podcast to Danny's article, "Lessons from the Frontlines: What I Learned from My Participation in the G20". This article is the first in a series of examinations of former officials and others who have been directly involved in the workings of global summitry. The 'Summit Dialogue' series is intended to give us insights into how current global summitry actually makes, or fails to make, policy at the global governance level. Danny was the first head of the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) International Economic Relations and Policy Department. In this ca...2017-03-2533 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsSummit Dialogue, Ep. 2: Stewart Patrick on "The New 'New Multilateralism'"In this second podcast in the Global Summitry podcast series, Stewart Patrick of the Council of Foreign Relations examines the evolution of multilateralism in the global order.This podcast is part of Stewart's 'Feature Article' "The New “New Multilateralism”: Minilateral Cooperation, but at What Cost?" As the title suggests multilateralism as a global order tool has gone through a succession of iterations. The most recent iteration is the development of informal minilateral arrangements. As Stewart points out, these new collaborative arrangements are not unalloyed improvements for global order collaboration.2017-03-2517 minGlobal Summitry PodcastsShaking the Global Order, Ep. 1: Henry Farrell on "Green Lanternism"In this first podcast senior editor Alan Alexandroff interviews Henry Farrell, Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University and occasional blogger at the 'Monkey Cage' at The Washington Post. Alan raises questions around what he and Henry refer to as global 'green lanternism' - the exercise, or not, of US power in the global order and its consequences. What emerges out of this interview is a complex picture of actors and their arrangements in the global order - what Henry describes as the 'New Interdependence'.2017-03-2524 min