Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Brendan Cox, a humanitarian campaigner and the widower of MP Jo Cox, about his fight against political extremism.The podcast was recorded on 27th June 2017.Bookshelf:Brendan Cox, Jo Cox: More in CommonSheryl Sandberg, Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR's director Mark Leonard discusses the challenges that Europe faces both in its Eastern and Southern neighbourhoods with Nicu Popescu and Florence Gaub, two Senior Analysts at the EU Institute for Security Studies.The podcast was recorded in Brussels on 21st June 2017. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Herbert S. Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security at Stanford University, about cybersecurity, fake news and the future of the Internet. The podcast was recorded on 7th June 2017. Bookshelf:David Clark, Thomas Berson & Herbert S. Lin, At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public PolicyP.W. Singer & Allan Friedman, Cybersecurity and Cyberwar What Everyone Needs to Know Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time, ECFR's director Mark Leonard is on the other side of the microphone and tells you all you need to know about the results of the UK General election.The podcast was recorded on 9th June 2017.Bookshelf:Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a harsh MistressBaron Noir, French drama series, 2016Mark Leonard, Winners and losers in the UK election, http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_winners_and_losers_in_the_uk_election_7295 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's Paris office, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and ECFR's Research Director, Jeremy Shapiro, about the consequences of the US withdrawal from the Paris climate deal.The podcast was recorded on 5th June 2017.Bookshelf:Francois Godement, Expanded ambitions, shrinking achievements: How China sees the global orderRichard Haass, World in Disarray, American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old OrderBen Aaronovitch, The Hanging Tree (Rivers of London Novels)Michael Anton, America and the Liberal International Order, in American Affairs Volume I, Number 1 (Spring 2017): 113–25. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode, author and terrorism expert Professor Gilles Kepel talks with ECFR's Anthony Dworkin about the factors that gave rise to the network-based 3rd generation Jihad, that has Europe as its main target.The podcast was recorded on 25th May 2017.Bookshelf:Gilles Kepel, Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the WestRory Stewart, The Marches Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's offices in Paris, Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, and Berlin, Almut Möller, about President Macron’s newly appointed government, his proposals for the Eurozone and the EU and the future of the Franco-German relation.The podcast was recorded on 17th May 2017 in Berlin.Bookshelf:Andre Wilkens, Der diskrete Charme der Bürokratie: Gute Nachrichten aus EuropaAntoine Garapon & Michel Rosenfeld, Démocraties sous stress - Les défis du terrorisme globalL'imaginaire historique d'Emmanuel Macron, a France Culture podcast available here: https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/la-fabrique-de-lhistoire/limaginaire-historique-demmanuel-macronPicture: Facebook/ Emmanuel Macron Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, rather than putting out our ordinary podcast, we're leaving the floor to Manuel Lafont Rapnouil, head of ECFR Paris, who's hosting a discussion with the heads of most of ECFR's offices from around Europe to look at France and Macron's rise from the outside in.Picture: Flickr/ Lorie Shaull Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the crisis in Macedonia and the bigger picture of political stagnation and chaos in the Balkans, at a time when accession to the EU is losing its credibility in the region.The podcast was recorded on 5th May 2017.To find out more, read ECFR's publication, "Return to instability: How migration and great power politics threaten the Western Balkans" here: http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/return_to_instability_6045Bookshelf:Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an EggAnne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Christine Ockrent, an eminent journalist, and Laurence Parisot, the former head of the main polling company in France, about the second round of the French election where voters are facing a choice that will have enormous consequences for France and for the future of the European Union.The podcast was recorded on 25th April 2017.Bookshelf:Zygmunt Bauman et al., L'âge de la RégressionAnne Nivat, Dans quelle France on vitLaurence Parisot, Un piège bleu MarineChristine Ockrent, Who is Marine Le Pen? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.