New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Episodes
The hope of our future
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“Youth is the hope of our future.” When it comes to governance, is that a good thing in a world where there is a growing body of evidence that you...
Leadership Special: Jan Eliasson, Former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
12 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize named in honor of Jan Eliasson, one of the most accomplished global diplomats of our era. In this s...
Alone together: China and America
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn't that long ago that globalization was universally perceived as a good thing, when policymakers celebrated free trade agreements, and when cou...
Girls, Interrupted
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A shape-shifting event like the global pandemic affects almost everyone on the planet—especially children. They have seen their education, social an...
Leadership Special: Nithya Ramanathan,Engineer working to improve human health with sensory intelligence
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode you will meet Nithya Ramanathan, a 2020 prize winners. Nithya is an engineer and social entrepreneur, saving lives through the innovat...
The Chinese Puzzle
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest of the world? Jonathan Ward, an ...
The kids are not alright!
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Early in 2020, when the global pandemic was still gathering force, UNICEF published a prophetic, deeply disturbing document. If anything, what actuall...
Leadership Special: Leadership Special: a profile in brief with Jared Genser, international human rights lawyer
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s world is short of a lot of things—sustainable environment, peace, prosperity, equality—but what we lack most is innovative, global, valu...
The best of times, and the worst of times
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Increased poverty and malnutrition; greater inequality; damaged and depleted health care systems; rising social and political tensions. But is this c...
If it’s illiberal, is it democracy?
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Europe is increasingly divided: between the frugal North and the Club Med South; between the illiberal East and the progressive West. In many ways, th...
Leadership Special: Sylvia Earle, world-class oceanographer and educator
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today's world is short of a lot of things, but what we lack most is innovative, global, values-based leadership. If we can find and nurture that kind ...
Casas Muertas
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Venezuela has been in a death spiral for years. The country have been devastated by political repression and economic depression; its people suffer fr...
When is too much freedom too much?
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Social media has become the lifeblood of modern culture. But it has evolved in ways which reward excessive outrage and which encourage hyper attention...
"Expect to have very violent reactions after the pandemic"
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Europe has had a bad few years. The struggles between North and South mostly over economics, between East and West mostly over values. Brexit, which s...
Iran’s Annus Horribilis
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
2020 was an awful year for Iran. It started with the assassination of the country's leading general and ended with the assassination of its most impor...
High Anxiety
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Even amid optimism about vaccines and declining infection rates, there is mounting evidence that the pandemic is generating a global mental health cri...
Do you believe in Magic?
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has forced most of us to move from real life to virtual life and we are mostly unhappy about the results. Is there a cure for Zoom fatigu...
Worth repeating: African Possibilities
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Worth Repeating: What are some of the challenges Africa faces in its future? At least so far, what plagues Africa is less Covid-19, than its conseque...
Looking for a New Normal (or something like it)
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We live at a time of pandemic, recession, challenges to democracy, shifts in global power. The response of many organizations, is to hunker down and s...
“A republic, if you can keep it”
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The amazing events of recent weeks—Donald Trump’s efforts to undo an electoral outcome, the assault on the Capitol, and the impeachment of the for...
Lines in the Sand
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
History is replete with leaders drawing real or metaphorical lines in the sand, challenging opponents to cross only if they dare. David Andelman, an A...
Welcome to the Brave New (digital) World
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the onset of the pandemic, much of life has shifted from the real world to the virtual world. For many, it has been a painful, frustrating exper...
Why Europe?
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization, is arguably one of the most prominent, thoughtful and enthusiastic supporters of...
Follow the Science
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2020 will probably be remembered as the year of COVID. But more importantly, to our collective futures, it's the year that saw the emergence of the sc...
Live and Let Live
17 Dec 2020
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. S...
Democracy in America
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. election has come, but not quite gone as President Trump continues to resist the otherwise apparent victory of Joe Biden. Notwithstanding tha...
Amazonian Armageddon
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, the Amazon is burning—and deforestation may be approaching a tipping point that could turn the world’s largest rain forest into dry sa...
Has China won?
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The competition between China and the United States is the defining geopolitical reality of the 21st century. The evolution of its new Great Game will...
Happy (?) Birthday
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The United Nations turned 75 this year—but the pandemic overwhelmed its birthday party. The UN, built in a different world, has succeeded in its cor...
Battlegrounds
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you think we live in a world that is increasingly dangerous, full of not just Great Power competitors, but potential enemies? Such a world is desc...
Migrants (barely) Surviving
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like a great magician, the pandemic has drawn our attention away from things that are hiding in plain sight. One of those has been the plight of milli...
A World Divided
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world's a mess. The great powers today, the Chinese and the Americans, seem to disagree on most things. The UK has left the EU and the Europeans ...
Africa Agonistes
17 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
South Sudan celebrated its hard-won independence in 2011, but today is considered one of the most fragile, even failed states in the world. What wen...
A Silver Lining to the Covid Disaster?
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Closed borders, hoarded medical equipment, confused policies. By any measures, the pandemic has not been EU's finest hour. But could it been bad enoug...
War, What is it Good For?
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Turkey and Greece are locked in a struggle in the Eastern Mediterranean that feels like it belongs more in 1920 than in 2020. Is war possible? Wil...
Sometimes History Rhymes
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One hundred years ago to the month, the collapsing Ottoman Empire was finally out of its misery in the Treaty of Sevre. However, in an echo of America...
Are We Really All in This Together?
13 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we seem unable to work together to manage our common home? Is the Covid pandemic considered “global” while Ebola was not, because Covid ha...
African Possibilities
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At least so far, what plagues Africa is less Covid-19, than its consequences: collapsed economies, an industrial world that is closing to Africa, seve...
STOP SLAVERY NOW!
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why do nations, rich and poor, tolerate widespread slavery, human trafficking and even the buying and selling of young children in the 21st century? ...
The Covid Economy: Your Bust, My Boom
23 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like everything in life, Covid is producing losers and winners, not the least from the global recession it has spawned. It’s even possible that the ...
Is America Finished?
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Why has the US stopped investing in itself? Why do things—from cell phones to highways to schools to trains—work better in countries that used to ...
America: Darkness Before the Crack of Dawn?
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe this mess—a pandemic, collapsing economy and racial inequalities laid bare—is exactly what the US needs. Maybe the outcome will be a more n...
Are “we” capable of fixing all that is breaking? Or is it too late?
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Looking for silver linings may be an integral part of the human condition. Even during the bleakest moments—like during a global pandemic, leadershi...
Is America Racist — if so, will it ever not be?
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
American Carnage or American Dream? It matters to everyone everywhere whether or not the US is in terminal decline or resetting the basis of its democ...
First, help yourself - A Moroccan leader on coping with life after Covid
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like everywhere else, Morocco must cope with the potentially overwhelming health, economic and political consequences of the pandemic. But unlike mos...
The Millennial Future
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of a global pandemic, leaders and people have turned local. That is not all bad: some people are working to strengthen their local commun...
Is it possible to be optimistic about climate change?
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tomas Anker Christensen, Denmark’s Climate Ambassador, and Daniel Martinez-Valle, CEO of Orbia, discusses both the need and opportunity for urgent, ...
Is Europe’s future green or black?
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fissures in the global political and economic fabric. For democracy to survive, the social contract need...
The American Condition
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What is the state of the union? Has the American dream become an American carnage? The Covid-19 epidemic has laid bare many pre-existing fissures and ...
Climate after Covid
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Christiana Figueres passionately believes that the pandemic offers a unique opportunity to focus on constructive climate action. She discusses the pos...
The value(s) of democracy
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy is under huge pressure everywhere, made worse by the global pandemic. Too many governments in too many places are failing to deliver on the...
Will Democracy Survive Covid-19?
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy and democratic institutions were under severe pressure well before the novel Coronavirus appeared. Could the added burden of the pandemic br...
Understanding Coronavirus and its Implications
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Goldfeld, 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, is a clinician and a medical doctor with long experience—in the lab and on th...
What is a thought?
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rafael Yuste, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University and a 2018 Tällberg Eliasson Global Leader speaks with Alan Stoga, the Tällb...
Grappling with the Unknown
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The three 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners, Anne Goldfield, Faustin Linyekula and Saul Griffith share their perspectives on th...
What is the future of democracy?
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Are Western democracies the model for non-Western countries or do they need different models? Do democracies represent all their constituents? How are...
Unpacking a Tällberg Workshop: Hopes, concerns and red threads
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After a Tällberg Workshop in Nairobi, three members of the Tällberg Foundation community gathered to reflect on the theme "New Thinking for a New Wo...