When Sports and Politics Mix: The IOC’s Dick Pound
A look at the long history of protest at the Games with Dick Pound, the longest serving member of the International Olympic Committee and a former Olympic athlete himself. With COVID rates rising glob...
7 Aug 202118min
Alcohol, Diplomacy & Society, From Edward Slingerland's Perspective
A deep dive down the bottle to examine the role alcohol has played in society, politics, and global summitry—from the earliest hunter-gatherer days to that memorable Obama Beer Summit in 2009. Joining...
31 Jul 202118min
How Human History Is Shaped by Disaster, According to Niall Ferguson
Stanford historian Niall Ferguson joins Ian Bremmer on the GZERO World podcast to talk about the geopolitics of disaster. Throughout human history we seem to be unable to adequately prepare for catast...
24 Jul 202122min
American Democracy is in Danger, Warns Ben Rhodes
Ben Rhodes, a former Deputy National Security Adviser to President Barack Obama, joins Ian Bremmer to talk about the state of American democracy in the 21st century. Trump, he says, cannot take all th...
17 Jul 202143min
Adam Grant Reimagines Work After COVID
Renowned organizational psychologist Adam Grant joins Ian Bremmer to talk about how the pandemic has upended what we think of as “work” and how we should reimagine the office culture in a post-pandemi...
10 Jul 202120min
US National Security Depends on Domestic Progress: Jane Harman Explains
Jane Harman, a nine-term member of Congress (D-CA) who served for decades on the major security committees in the House of Representatives, discusses the shortcomings of the US national security strat...
27 Jun 202128min
A Former US Diplomat Rates Biden’s First Presidential Trip Abroad
Former US Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder weighs in on US President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad, which included a very important first stop at the G7 summit in the United Kingdom, and the way forwar...
19 Jun 202133min
Fighting for Democracy in “Europe’s Last Dictatorship”
Is there a path to democracy for Europe’s last dictatorship, Belarus? Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya discusses her hopes and fears for the country with Ian Bremmer on the...
12 Jun 202121min
