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.

Leadership Society & Culture News Politics Earth Sciences Innovation Science

Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 33 minutes
Episodes: 244
Years Active: 2020 - 2025

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Worth Repeating: Looking For—and Finding—Real Leaders

Listen to the 2021 Prize winners: Asha de Vos, Sri Lanka and Tero Mustonen, Finland.

The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision, universal values, and determination will …

00:22:41 | Thu 31 Mar 2022

The Whole World is Watching!

At great personal peril, Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats tells it like it is—to the Russians who depend on her and to us, who need her.

In August, 1968 American anti-war protesters chanted, “The W…

00:38:54 | Thu 24 Mar 2022

Is China Complicit in Ukraine?

Why did Xi apparently green light Putin's war? What does China potentially gain from war in Europe? How does this war fit into China's long-term strategy?

Arguably, any understanding of the Russian i…

00:28:57 | Thu 17 Mar 2022

The Faces of War

Janine di Giovanni has spent much of her celebrated career witnessing the worst of what mankind can do to itself, but also the best that people under extraordinary circumstances can do for others.

Th…

00:34:37 | Thu 10 Mar 2022

Special Edition: War in Europe

The Tällberg Foundation recently hosted a conversation about the conflict in Ukraine and its implications. This conversation featured Jan Eliasson, Pierre Lellouche and

Most of us thought the war in …

01:04:17 | Tue 08 Mar 2022

Talking about Talking

The Russian attack shattered the European security structure. Listen to Emma Ashford's thoughts and speculation about a new security structure for Europe.

Wars have cycles: sooner or later, the fight…

00:32:22 | Thu 03 Mar 2022

Welcome to the End of Democracy

Joel Kotkin argues that the withering of democratic process and institutions reflects the deeper transformation of American and European societies.

"We may remain, as we are now, nominally democratic…

00:32:10 | Thu 24 Feb 2022

What’s Next for the Climate: A Post Glasgow Perspective

No one is better positioned to answer those questions than Tomas Anker Christensen, Denmark's climate ambassador.

Climate change is the ultimate example of a problem that can only meaningfully be add…

00:35:40 | Thu 17 Feb 2022

Saving Democracy, One New Leader at a Time

Alice Barbe, a French political activist, recently shared her ideas, hopes and solutions on how politics ought to work.

In many, perhaps most countries in the West, there is a wide and growing gap b…

00:32:30 | Thu 10 Feb 2022

Will there be war?

Listen as Constanze Stelzenmüller—an expert on Germany, geopolitics and trans-Atlantic relations - shares her views on what is at stake.

Hostile troops massing on the border of a Central European dem…

00:38:05 | Thu 03 Feb 2022

Looking for Change in All the Right Places: The New Middle East

Has the Middle East of strict Islam suddenly turned into something more modern?

The Middle East is changing. In the past couple of years, peace treaties have been signed between Arab countries and Is…

00:32:41 | Thu 27 Jan 2022

Are the Bad Guys REALLY Winning?

What does historian and journalist Anne Applebaum mean by “the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse”?

Whether we like it or not, global politics today is defined by confrontation—which cou…

00:31:29 | Thu 20 Jan 2022

Worth Repeating Cyber Defenders: Protecting Human Rights Online

Ronald Deibert is fighting back against digital predators to protect citizens and civil society.

We live in an always on, hyperconnected, digital society. Almost every aspect of our lives now has a v…

00:37:53 | Thu 13 Jan 2022

Worth Repeating: Escaping the Taliban

Listen as Jamila Afghani talks about escaping the Taliban, and what she expects for her country.

The Taliban's surge to power in Afghanistan is one of those events that will have repercussions for ye…

00:27:38 | Thu 06 Jan 2022

Worth Repeating - China: On the Road to Perdition?

Is China’s leadership acting out of strength or weakness? Is war possible? Is war avoidable?

Under President Xi Jinping, China has shown a growing willingness to act outside the accepted geopolitical…

00:37:34 | Thu 30 Dec 2021

Searching for New Leaders

Listen to Pashtana Durrani, an Afghan activist and educator and Christian Ntizimira, who champions palliative care in Rwanda, discuss leadership.

Great leaders may or may not be born that way, but th…

00:25:31 | Wed 22 Dec 2021

Looking For—and Finding—Real Leaders

Listen to two amazing leaders: Asha de Vos, Sri Lanka and Tero Mustonen, Finland.

The only hope for a world awash in troubles is that leaders with vision, universal values, and determination will sei…

00:22:41 | Thu 16 Dec 2021

Give Peace a Chance (this time in the Middle East)

Listen as Ambassador Dina Kawar parses the possibilities, good and bad, in the Middle East

Like almost everything else on the global scene, the Middle East of today is significantly different than th…

00:33:04 | Thu 09 Dec 2021

Save the Seas

Oceanographers Sylvia Earle from the US and Asha de Vos from Sri Lanka talks about water, the oceans, threats, and solutions.

Do you care about the future of the oceans? Are you worried that pollutio…

00:43:16 | Thu 02 Dec 2021

Cyber Defenders: Protecting Human Rights Online