Is there a Democrat that can beat Trump?
With the Democratic primaries underway and Super Tuesday on the horizon this week's episode takes a look at the US presidential election. Is there a Democratic frontrunner? Can we predict how the publ...
19 Feb 202020min
Bolsonaro’s isolationism and deference to Trump
Celso Amorim, who served as foreign minister under former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, talks to Gideon Rachman about Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power, his subordination to the US and w...
12 Feb 202016min
The global politics of climate change
Gideon Rachman talks to historian Adam Tooze about his forthcoming book on the origins of the climate crisis and the prospects for international agreement to curb emissions and avert disaster. Hosted ...
5 Feb 202019min
'Let's just get out of there' is not a strategy
General John Allen, head of the Brookings Institution and former Nato forces commander, talks to Gideon Rachman about the importance of clear objectives and staying power in the Middle East and Afghan...
29 Jan 202018min
Taiwan treads fine line between democracy and China
In the wake of Tsai Ing-Wen’s re-election as President of Taiwan, Gideon Rachman discusses the Asian island's future ties with China and the rest of the world with Shelley Rigger, a professor at David...
22 Jan 202019min
The dictator and the strongman
Gideon Rachman talks to Frank Dikötter, professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and author of How to be a dictator, about the cult of personality behind some of the twentieth century’s ...
15 Jan 202015min
Africa’s transnational challenges
Climate change, increased violence in the Sahel, and foreign intervention: Gideon Rachman talks to Comfort Ero, International Crisis Group’s Africa Program Director, about what the African continent f...
8 Jan 202015min
Matteo Renzi on the problem with populists
Gideon Rachman talks to Italy's former centre-left prime minister Matteo Renzi about the problem with populists, how to solve Europe's migration crisis and his future role in politics. Hosted on Acast...
2 Jan 202012min
