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: Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?

Listen to Tero Mustonen, one of 2021 Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize winners.

Rapidly accelerating climate change is uniquely modern — but climate change is not. The planet has warmed a…

00:36:15 | Thu 18 Nov 2021

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 11 Nov 2021

Electrify Everything!

Do we have the technologies in hand to decarbonize economies in ways that are compatible with how people want to live?

Politicians from around the world are in Glasgow for the 26th United Nations Con…

00:39:07 | Thu 04 Nov 2021

Greta’s Right: Less Talk, More Action

What is actually being done about climate change?

Searching for "Climate change" on Google produces 1.1 billion results in less than a second. It seems almost everyone everywhere is talking about it,…

00:31:59 | Thu 28 Oct 2021

Worth Repeating: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 21st Century Style

If art is a window on the soul of a nation, what does ours look like? Who do we think we are in the sense of identity?

We live in a time of profound change. For anyone who doubted how fundamentally o…

00:36:15 | Thu 21 Oct 2021

Worth Repeating: Is It Possible to Be Optimistic About Climate Change?

Listen as Thomas Anker Christensen and Daniel Martinez-Valle talk about the need and opportunity for urgent, positive creative climate activism in the wake of the pandemic.

For the first time in 75 y…

00:30:21 | Thu 07 Oct 2021

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 30 Sep 2021

Can We Unearth Solutions to the Climate Challenge?

Tero Mustonen is a climate scholar who combines indigenous knowledge with academic research. Listen to his insights on how to promote positive change on a damaged planet.

Rapidly accelerating climate…

00:36:15 | Thu 23 Sep 2021

Latin American Democracy: Dead or Alive?

Why do many Latins seemingly embrace “strong man” rather than democratic solutions to their social, economic, and political problems?

Over the years Latin America has seen more than its share of coup…

00:37:34 | Thu 16 Sep 2021

New World Order: Middle East Chapter

What kind of Middle East do Iran’s leaders, including president Ebrahim Raisi, want and what are they prepared to do to get it?

The recent Taliban victory in Afghanistan and the abrupt American withd…

00:36:29 | Thu 09 Sep 2021

Can Brazil’s Democracy Survive Bolsonaro?

Or will he damage the democratic institutions so badly that Brazil’s future stability could be at risk?

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently said, “I have three alternatives for my future: bei…

00:30:35 | Thu 02 Sep 2021

Cyber (In)Security in a Connected World

Who makes the rules of cyber warfare? Who are the cyber powers?

Cyber insecurity is a reality of life in the digital age. We all worry about being hacked, about losing personal or corporate secrets t…

00:31:12 | Thu 26 Aug 2021

Can We Innovate Our Way to Better Times?

Are we smart enough to translate discoveries into tangible benefits for people?

2021 may go down in history as the year of the Great Awakening. Relentless disease, floods, fires, droughts, food insec…

00:34:16 | Thu 19 Aug 2021

Who Cares About Migrants?

Where do they go and who will take them? Who worries about them in a world that is focused on coping with Covid?

The world is a mess: climate change in real time, the lingering and sometimes resurgen…

00:35:18 | Thu 12 Aug 2021

A German Millennial Looks at a New — Or, at Least, Different — World

The 20th century ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you've come of age since then, the struggles of The Cold War are the stuff of history books.

For all practica…

00:34:33 | Wed 04 Aug 2021

Are Your Thoughts Safe?

Neuroscientists know more about how the brain works than ever before; unlocking the brain's potential could transform our world.

In Hamlet, Shakespeare wrote, "Nothing is good or bad, but thinking ma…

00:35:38 | Wed 28 Jul 2021

Worth Repeating: The Chinese Puzzle

What does China want from the rest of the world? Jonathan Ward thinks they want victory.

What does China—or, more particularly China’s leadership and the Chinese Communist Party— want from the rest o…

00:34:29 | Thu 22 Jul 2021

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 21st Century Style

If art is a window on the soul of a nation, what does ours look like? Who do we think we are in the sense of identity?

We live in a time of profound change. For anyone who doubted how fundamentally o…

00:38:47 | Thu 15 Jul 2021

Worth Repeating: Does Democracy Have a Future in Latin America?

From Mexico to Argentina there has been an accelerating erosion of representative democracy.

By any measure, Latin American democracy is in trouble. From Mexico to Argentina—and most of the countries…

00:29:30 | Thu 08 Jul 2021

Worth Repeating: The best of times, and the worst of times

This week’s guests are dedicated to trying to make the world the kind of place it could and should be.

Even as the pandemic, like some giant glacier, slowly and unevenly recedes, the world seems froz…

00:37:38 | Thu 01 Jul 2021

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