New Thinking for a New World - a Tallberg Foundation Podcast
Aiming to provoke people to think — and therefore act — differently about the global issues that are shaping their future, the Tällberg Foundation is sharing some of its conversations in podcast form. The podcast invites you to hear from leaders from different sectors and geographies as they explore issues that are challenging and changing our societies.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 244
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
A Silver Lining to the Covid Disaster?
Ana Palacio, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Magnus Schöldtz, former Ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, talk about Europes challenges in this week's podcast.
Closed …
00:38:01 |
Wed 09 Sep 2020
War, What is it Good For?
What happens if Turkey’s aggressive president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan miscalculates how far he can push the Greeks?Is war possible? Will Greece’s European allies come to its rescue? What happens if Tur…
00:25:39 |
Wed 02 Sep 2020
Sometimes History Rhymes
Egypt’s Nabil Fahmy and Turkey’s Cengiz Çandar discuss what Erdogan wants as he is playing a high stakes game that some think could even lead to war between Turkey and Greece or Egypt.
One hundred ye…
00:27:35 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Are We Really All in This Together?
Cardinal Czerny argues that any approach to Covid-19 that does not include those most vulnerable among us is a non-solution. Who then seems to have overlooked these people?
Why do we seem unable to w…
00:27:02 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
African Possibilities
How can Africa cope? Are solutions—or, at least, possibilities—to be found at the local, national or regional level? Listen to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, and Carol…
00:29:22 |
Thu 06 Aug 2020
STOP SLAVERY NOW!
Why do nations, rich and poor, tolerate widespread slavery, human trafficking and even the buying and selling of young children in the 21st century?
Why do nations, rich and poor, tolerate widespread…
00:21:51 |
Thu 30 Jul 2020
The Covid Economy: Your Bust, My Boom
What happens when the global economy collapses, but global financial markets boom? That’s one of the issues explored in the conversation with German business leader Kurt Lauk and long-time top Americ…
00:28:30 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
Is America Finished?
Why has America stopped investing in itself? We speak with Christine Loh who is a Hong Kong-based academic, environmentalist, and former government official with deep ties to the United States
Why ha…
00:27:59 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
America: Darkness Before the Crack of Dawn?
Castañeda talks about some of the ideas from his latest book, “America Through Foreign Eyes” and explains why he thinks the United States is heading in exactly the right direction.
Maybe this mess—a …
00:25:37 |
Thu 02 Jul 2020
Are “we” capable of fixing all that is breaking? Or is it too late?
Looking for silver linings may be an integral part of the human condition. Even during the bleakest moments—like during a global pandemic, a global recession, leadership failures and profound social…
00:31:58 |
Fri 26 Jun 2020
Is America Racist — if so, will it ever not be?
Three global thinkers—a Mexican journalist (Ana Paula Ordorica), a Kenyan poet (Sitawa Namwalie) and a Congolese choreographer (Faustin Linyekula)—what they think is happening in America now.
America…
00:31:19 |
Thu 18 Jun 2020
First, help yourself - A Moroccan leader on coping with life after Covid
Like everywhere else, Morocco must cope with the potentially overwhelming health, economic and political consequences of the pandemic. But unlike most places, the country has a well-designed, focuse…
00:29:19 |
Wed 10 Jun 2020
The Millennial Future
In the midst of a global pandemic, many countries, leaders and people have turned local. That is not all bad: some people are working to strengthen their local communities, exploring new grassroots …
00:31:46 |
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Is it possible to be optimistic about climate change?
For the first time in 75 years, the whole world is focused on the same problem and, in the process, mobilizing unprecedented political will, state authority and fiscal resources as well as relying on…
00:30:21 |
Thu 28 May 2020
Is Europe’s future green or black?
The global Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep fissures in the global political and economic fabric. For democracy to survive, the social contract needs to be reimagined; economies needs to be re-engi…
00:24:38 |
Thu 21 May 2020
The American Condition
What is the state of the Union? Has the American dream become American carnage? Covid-19 has laid bare many pre-existing fissures and deep distress in American society. Can the exhausted majority rea…
00:30:36 |
Thu 14 May 2020
Climate after Covid
Christiana Figueres—climate activist, one of the key architects of the Paris Climate Agreement and 2016 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner—passionately believes that the pandemic offers…
00:23:09 |
Thu 30 Apr 2020
The value(s) of democracy
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 basic social contract with their citizens. In t…
00:22:33 |
Thu 23 Apr 2020
Will Democracy Survive Covid-19?
Democracy and democratic institutions were under severe pressure well before the novel Coronavirus appeared. Could the added burden of the pandemic break the back of democracy as we have known it? Ho…
00:29:11 |
Thu 16 Apr 2020
Understanding Coronavirus and its Implications
Anne Goldfeld, 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winner, is a clinician and a medical doctor with long experience—in the lab and on the front lines of care—with epidemics. Together with …
00:30:25 |
Thu 09 Apr 2020
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