New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episodes
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Building a Different Middle East
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent months, the Middle East has witnessed significant developments that could reshape the global order, rivaling the impact of Russia's war on U...
Is India Back?
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
India had the world's largest economy until the 17th century but suffered almost 500 years of decline afterward. However, India is currently the world...
Africa's Arc of Misery: Sudan
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode of "New Thinking for a New World", the tragic situation in Sudan is discussed where conflict, military rule, displacement, and...
Worth Repeating: Looking for Justice, One Person at a Time
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 has become a year of recession, inflation, social and labor unrest, war, the ravages of climate etc. One casualty of that mess is the rule of law...
Rising China Plants a Flag in the Middle East
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the implications of the recent diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Iran, brokered by China’s top diplomat Wang Yi...
Reflections on the Guillotine
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
French President Emmanuel Macron faces a complicated situation at home and abroad. He’s trying to assert European sovereignty against the US, but he...
Slouching Towards Texas (If Not Bethlehem)
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Migration is a long and ongoing story of human history. People move for fear or opportunity, and others resist them. This still happens today: more pe...
Is This Any Way to Run a War?
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has settled into a grueling, vicious war of attrition with no end in sight. However, there is a growing consensus in NATO...
Needed: New Thinking about Africa’s Debt Burden
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, explore the potential of Africa and the obstacles it faces, including too much debt and a history of mismanagement. With 24 out of 54...
Is Israel Heading Over a Cliff?
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel seems to be on the verge of exploding. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s pursuit of radical judicial reform has been met with massive and growing st...
Worth Repeating: Can a Broken Democracy Fix Itself?
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After the Pinochet years, Chile evolved into one of the most successful countries in the Americas in terms of the health of its democracy. All of that...
Everything Old Is New Again: Building the University of the Future on an Ancient Foundation
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At times of rapid societal change, the academy can be a radical platform for experimentation and new thinking or a bastion of conservatism—or a comb...
Mongolia: Between the Hammer and the Anvil
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed how global politics works. What about Mongolia? It is geographically sandwiched between China and Russia, making ...
Ask ChatGPT: How worried should we be?
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What could possibly go wrong with underlying technology that can research, write, draw, code, compose music, and possibly even think at least as well ...
Looking for Justice, One Person at a Time
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2023 looks likely to be a year of recession, inflation, social and labor unrest, war, the ravages of climate etc. One casualty of that mess is likely ...
Worth Repeating: From the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At least one in nine of the almost eight billion people who live on earth are undernourished. As the 18th century economist Robert Malthus forecast, w...
Worth Repeating: Asia for the Asians—but which Asians?
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a complicated, conflicted world. Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine. US and European efforts to punish Russian aggression. China's growing ...
Worth Repeating: Who is Vladimir Putin?
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does Putin want? How far will he go in his efforts to subjugate Ukraine? Does he have limits? By the time historians can answer those questions,...
Dialogue of the deaf: Europe and China
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There is no doubt that the prevailing view of China in many European capitals has flipped from growing cooperation to feared confrontation. What happ...
Navigating the World, One Charity at a Time
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For many, the holiday season is a time of giving, when people think a bit more about those with less, or those affected by war or other calamities. Gl...
Worth Repeating: Can Tech Save Us?
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our world has become a weird combination of dangerous, existential challenges and of almost magical, potential solutions. Which is it going to be? Are...
America Votes; Democracy Wins (Maybe)
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The US mid-term elections are (almost) over. Perhaps most importantly, after the turmoil of the last election cycle, in almost all cases voters voted,...
Worth Repeating: Live and Let Live
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What Does a Franco-German Split Mean for Europe?
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Europe is in a bad place: the war in Ukraine, energy crisis, inflation, looming recession, political and social tensions—the list seems endless. Ove...
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble: Europe Looks at a Complicated Future
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Europe is under considerable stress from the Ukraine war, on top of longstanding tensions between northern and southern countries over economics and w...
Can a Broken Democracy Fix Itself?
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After the Pinochet years, Chile evolved into one of the most successful countries in the Americas in terms of the health of its democracy. All of that...
Worth Repeating: Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rapidly accelerating climate change is uniquely modern — but climate change is not. Can indigenous people who understand nature differently than mos...
No Normal is the New Normal
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a world of converging crises. We can forget about that new normal thing we hoped would emerge as the pandemic receded: No normal is the new...
Who is Vladimir Putin?
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does Putin want? How far will he go in his efforts to subjugate Ukraine? Does he have limits? By the time historians can answer those questions,...
Worth Repeating: Don’t Fool with Mother Nature!
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in an era of accelerating, disruptive climate change. This isn’t about the random bad storm, but about systemic, dramatic shifts in climate....
Unwrapping the Riddle That Is Mexico
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mexico is on the one hand a country that is chronically beset by drug cartels, violence, femicide, corruption, poverty, and political shenanigans. On ...
Asia for the Asians—but which Asians?
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a complicated, conflicted world. Russia's unprovoked war in Ukraine. US and European efforts to punish Russian aggression. China's growing ...
Worth Repeating: Speaking Truth to Power in the Real World
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when autocrats are rampaging and our democracies are weakening, the need for citizens to defend their rights has never been greater. But, d...
Worth Repeating: Code Red: not for Earth, for Humanity?
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“For the first time in human history, we face a planetary emergency.” Those words were written by Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Instit...
From the Lab to Your Kitchen: Growing Tomorrow’s Dinner
18 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At least one in nine of the almost eight billion people who live on earth are undernourished. As the 18th century economist Robert Malthus forecast, w...
Worth Repeating: Are You Listening?
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the ironies of the 21st century is that even though everyone on the planet seems to have a cell phone and to be actively connected to social me...
Can Tech Save Us?
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our world has become a weird combination of dangerous, existential challenges and of almost magical, potential solutions. Which is it going to be? Are...
Worth Repeating: Sweden Burning? Really?
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in the age of the refugee. Arguably, no country in the West has been more welcoming to refugees over the years than Sweden has. Progressive, s...
Worth Repeating: Welcome to the End of Democracy
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Kotkin, Executive Director of the Urban Reform Institute, recently published an essay on democracy’s demise. Donald Trump is not the villain of...
Worth Repeating: Save the Seas
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you care about the future of the oceans? Seventy percent of the earth is covered by water. If we want a livable planet, we need livable oceans. Can...
Should We Be Celebrating Erdogan’s Leadership?
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent NATO summit in Madrid, US President Joe Biden made a joint appearance with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Biden said, “I want...
Worth Repeating: The Whole World is Watching!
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The whole world really is watching Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Except for audiences in Russia itself, that is. Among the many thousands o...
Code Red: not for Earth, for Humanity?
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“For the first time in human history, we face a planetary emergency.” Those words were written by Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Instit...
Worth Repeating - Them vs Us: What Ukraine Is Really About
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Russia's war on Ukraine grinds on with no end in sight, what's at stake may be changing. As Blitzkrieg turned into a war of attrition, arguably the...
Are You Listening?
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the ironies of the 21st century is that even though everyone on the planet seems to have a cell phone and to be actively connected to social me...
Don’t Fool with Mother Nature!
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in an era of accelerating, disruptive climate change. This isn’t about the random bad storm, but about systemic, dramatic shifts in climate....
Speaking Truth to Power in the Real World
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when autocrats are rampaging and our democracies are weakening, the need for citizens to defend their rights has never been greater. But, d...
Ukraine Changes Everything
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia’s war on Ukraine changes everything. But the damage is not limited to Ukraine and to Russia. The knock-on effects include increased inflation...
Sweden Burning? Really?
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in the age of the refugee. Arguably, no country in the West has been more welcoming to refugees over the years than Sweden has. Progressive, s...
Them vs Us: What Ukraine Is Really About
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As Russia's war on Ukraine grinds on with no end in sight, what's at stake may be changing. As Blitzkrieg turned into a war of attrition, arguably the...
Poland to the Rescue
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia’s war on Ukraine has set off the largest movement of refugees in Europe since the last World War. At least 2.7 million of these refugees ha...
How Worried Are You?
14 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One of the many unintended consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the renewed discussion among politicians, as well as in the popular medi...
Does China Have Russia’s Back?
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the biggest known unknown in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is China's role. What does that actually mean? How far will China go to keep Russi...
Worth Repeating: Looking For—and Finding—Real Leaders
31 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision, universal values, and determination will seize the moment. But just bemoaning...
The Whole World is Watching!
24 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The whole world really is watching Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Except for audiences in Russia itself, that is. Among the many thousands o...
Is China Complicit in Ukraine?
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Arguably, any understanding of the Russian invasion of Ukraine must take into account the Beijing Winter Olympics or, rather, the meeting there of Pre...
The Faces of War
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world is transfixed by the tragic images emerging from Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. Unfortunately, many modern conflicts never really en...
Special Edition: War in Europe
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us thought the war in the Balkans would be the last conflict in Europe. We were wrong. A revanchist Russia is trying to redraw borders, roll b...
Talking about Talking
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wars have cycles: sooner or later, the fighting ends and the negotiations begin. Of course how the fighting ends will shape whatever negotiations ensu...
Welcome to the End of Democracy
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joel Kotkin, Executive Director of the Urban Reform Institute, recently published an essay on democracy’s demise. Donald Trump is not the villain of...
What’s Next for the Climate: A Post Glasgow Perspective
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is the ultimate example of a problem that can only meaningfully be addressed at the global level. Last November, more than 100 countrie...
Saving Democracy, One New Leader at a Time
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In many, perhaps most countries in the West, there is a wide and growing gap between citizens and their political leaders. Governments often fail to d...
Will there be war?
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hostile troops massing on the border of a Central European democracy. Russia's threats against Ukraine and its demands for new security and arrangemen...
Looking for Change in All the Right Places: The New Middle East
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Middle East is changing. New investment and trade relationships are emerging based on economics, not religion. In December more than 700,000 Saudi...
Are the Bad Guys REALLY Winning?
20 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether we like it or not, global politics today is defined by the confrontation between autocracies and democracies. Not surprisingly, as historian a...
Worth Repeating Cyber Defenders: Protecting Human Rights Online
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a digital society. Unfortunately, some of the results include cybercrime, illegal spying, intimidation and identity theft. It’s bad en...
Worth Repeating: Escaping the Taliban
06 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Taliban's surge to power in Afghanistan is one of those events that will have repercussions for years to come. Jamila Afghani succeeded in gettin...
Worth Repeating - China: On the Road to Perdition?
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Under President Xi Jinping, China has shown a growing willingness to act outside the accepted geopolitical, economic and even diplomatic global framew...
Searching for New Leaders
22 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Great leaders may or may not be born that way, but their skills and abilities certainly evolve and mature over time. That is why we established an Eme...
Looking For—and Finding—Real Leaders
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision, universal values, and determination will seize the moment. But just bemoaning...
Give Peace a Chance (this time in the Middle East)
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Middle East of today is significantly different than the region that has been such a locus of conflict over the past 50 years. Key actors seem to ...
Save the Seas
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you care about the future of the oceans? Seventy percent of the earth is covered by water. If we want a livable planet, we need livable oceans. Can...
Cyber Defenders: Protecting Human Rights Online
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a digital society. Unfortunately, some of the results include cybercrime, illegal spying, intimidation and identity theft. It’s bad en...
Worth Repeating: Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rapidly accelerating climate change is uniquely modern — but climate change is not. Can indigenous people who understand nature differently than mos...
China: On the Road to Perdition?
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Under President Xi Jinping, China has shown a growing willingness to act outside the accepted geopolitical, economic and even diplomatic global framew...
Electrify Everything!
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The disastrous impacts of climate change are evident. Do we have the technologies in hand to decarbonize economies in ways that are compatible with ho...
Greta’s Right: Less Talk, More Action
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is actually being done about climate change? The gap between rhetoric and action is critical. Santiago Gowland, CEO of the Rainforest Alliance ...
Worth Repeating: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 21st Century Style
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we in the West become more conscious of inequalities that have been part of our societal fabric for a long time, we're becoming less sure of our id...
Worth Repeating: Is It Possible to Be Optimistic About Climate Change?
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen as Tomas Anker Christensen, Denmark’s Climate Ambassador, and Daniel Martinez-Valle, Chief Executive Officer of Orbia, a Mexico based global ...
Escaping the Taliban
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Taliban's surge to power in Afghanistan is one of those events that will have repercussions for years to come. Jamila Afghani succeeded in gettin...
Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rapidly accelerating climate change is uniquely modern — but climate change is not. Can indigenous people who understand nature differently than mos...
Latin American Democracy: Dead or Alive?
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Over the years Latin America has seen more than its share of coups, dictators, autocrats, and stolen elections. Why hasn't liberal democracy developed...
New World Order: Middle East Chapter
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Taliban victory in Afghanistan and the abrupt U.S. withdrawal are the most dramatic evidence of a profound realignment in the politics of the Midd...
Can Brazil’s Democracy Survive Bolsonaro?
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can Bolsonaro bully his way into reelection? Will the country’s democratic institutions be so damaged by him that Brazil’s future stability could ...
Cyber (In)Security in a Connected World
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cyber insecurity is a reality of life in the digital age. We all worry about being hacked, about losing personal or corporate secrets. But what happen...
Can We Innovate Our Way to Better Times?
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2021 may go down in history as the year of the Great Awakening. Can we really innovate our way out of the mess? Are we smart enough to translate disco...
Who Cares About Migrants?
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world is a mess: climate change in real time, the pandemic, widespread social and political unrest, high pitch geopolitical tensions. In the midst...
A German Millennial Looks at a New — Or, at Least, Different — World
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Your Thoughts Safe?
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neuroscientists today know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world. But it could a...
Worth Repeating: The Chinese Puzzle
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does China—or, China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest of the world? Jonathan Ward, an American who is rap...
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 21st Century Style
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As we in the West become more conscious of inequalities that have been part of our societal fabric for a long time, we're becoming less sure of our id...
Worth Repeating: Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina there has been an accelerating erosion of representative democracy. I...
Worth Repeating: The best of times, and the worst of times
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Increased poverty and malnutrition; greater inequality; damaged and depleted health care systems; rising social and political tensions. But is this a ...
Hot War, Cold War, New War
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lithuania is a frontline state in the growing confrontation—some think it is already war—between East and West. Dalia Bankauskaitė, a security ex...
Worth Repeating: Live and Let Live
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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. Si...
A New Middle East
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is the Middle East going through a realignment as significant as after World War I or since Israel was created in 1948? New realities are emerging: p...
Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina there has been an accelerating erosion of representative democracy. ...
Welcome to the High-Tech Barbecue
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Agriculture as it is practiced today—industrial scale ranching and farming—is already a huge contributor to the accelerating pace of climate chang...
Heart of Darkness
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How is Africa doing? In one sense, that's a nonsensical question to ask about 55 countries and almost 1.4 billion people, but even dumb questions can ...
Leadership Special: Fio Omenetto and Bright Simons
17 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, you will meet two Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership prize winners. Listen as two prize recipients and friends, scienti...