What Does Climate Change Mean for Water Security?
Climate change is disrupting weather patterns and leading to extreme weather events, such as wild fires, all around the world. Climate-related natural...
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Global Futures is a podcast about global politics and how rising powers like China and India are changing it. We discuss foreign policy, economics, war and peace, and how the world is changing with experts from across the world.
Kun Tang: China's Response to COVID-19
Three months after the novel Coronavirus outbreak, companies across China are re-opening their doors for business. On March 19, Beijing announced that...
Yaotzin Botello: Coronavirus in Latin America and in the News
The coronavirus has paralyzed trade, caused stock markets to plunge and global economic activity to shrink. The pandemic has reached Latin America: Ve...
Mara Pillinger: The Coronavirus Pandemonium
International cooperation and multilateral approaches are being strained by rising populism and nationalism. The unabated march of the novel coronavir...
Allister Fa Chang: Can Media Literacy Save Us?
This episode marks the start of season two of the Global Futures podcast. Over the course of the next few months, we will tackle the future(s) of clim...
Joel Sandhu: What's Next for Hong Kong?
As Beijing marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China with an enormous military parade, protests have erupted again...
Aidy Halimanjaya: Tackling Environmental Threats in Indonesia
Indonesia, an archipelago comprising of approximately 17,000 islands, holds just one percent of the Earth’s land area, but that one percent contains c...
Jodi Allemeier: South African Lessons for City Activism
Cities are often described as sites of democracy at its deepest level – places where state actors are closest to citizens and their needs and the oppo...
Sophie Pedder: Who is Emmanuel Macron?
From the yellow vests movement to critiques on his political acumen throughout the “Great National Debate”, Emmanuel Macron has faced many public chal...
Aryaman Bhatnagar: What Are the Prospects for Indian-German Cooperation on Afghanistan?
In May 2019, American and Taliban negotiators began a new round of peace talks in Doha, Qatar, hoping to settle the nearly two-decade long conflict in...