What to do about undersea wars, Russian sabotage attacks, and why Sweden will never surrender
Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative, and a columnist for Foreign Policy and Politico Europe. We met at the Europe Future Forum in Warsaw and d...
18 Sep 27min
The legacy of 9/11: How Peter Bergen met Osama bin Laden and what he would ask him now
The 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks are one of the reasons why I am a foreign policy journalist. One of my motivations has been to understand the world better. In this episode of The Global Agora, I discussed w...
10 Sep 31min
Would Lukashenko allow Putin to attack NATO from Belarus?
Imagine a situation where Vladimir Putin wanted to attack NATO from Belarus. Would Alexander Lukashenko be willing to cooperate? "I don't think that he has a lot of choices here," said Hanna Liubakova...
1 Sep 24min
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel & Co.: Can techno-oligarchy cause the end of humanity?
What is the techno-oligarchy? What roles and agendas do billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and others have? How much do the interests of the techno-oligarchy intersect with those of geopolitica...
24 Aug 29min
One year on: Ukraine refused to give in after the Trump-Putin summit, but there are also concerns and doom
On August 15th last year, US President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Do we live in a different world, or does Kyiv still feel the heat from ...
17 Aug 26min
Is the US becoming a country of measles and diarrhea under President Trump?
The midterm elections are less than three months away, and part of the American political discourse is about alleged communists taking over the country. But in fact, it seems that diseases are taking ...
10 Aug 29min
It's unlikely to happen, but who could get rid of Putin?
Is Vladimir Putin's grip on power weakened amid Ukrainian strikes? Can we expect a big mobilization in Russia? Will the upcoming Duma elections be totally faked? And while it's unlikely to happen, who...
4 Aug 25min
We shouldn't call people monsters, says genocide scholar when talking about Srebrenica, Ukraine, Gaza...
Hariz Halilovich was born in Srebrenica. He is an award-winning social anthropologist, author, and a Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne. His research has focused on place-base...
27 Juli 39min
