Global Governance Podcast
by Global Governance Forum
Welcome to the Global Governance Podcast with Augusto Lopez-Claros, where we explore the future of governance. Each episode will look at a different global issue and how governance plays a key role in its solution. From climate change to gender equality, from corruption to peace and security, we invite experts to explore a thought-provoking game of “what if?” and “why not?”, positing a world in much closer international cooperation. To learn more visit GlobalGovernanceForum.org.
Episodes
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Oona Hathaway on International Law and the Future of the United Nations
At a time of mounting pressure on the post-1945 international legal order, Professor Oona Hathaway explores the resilience of the prohibition on the use of force, the challenge of great-power non-compliance, and the possibilities for meaningful UN reform. Learn more on GlobalGovernanceForum.org
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Michael Mandelbaum on America's Foreign Policy and the Future of the International Order
Michael Mandelbaum reflects on American foreign policy, mounting nuclear dangers, geopolitical fragmentation, and whether today's international institutions can adapt before another global crisis compels reform. Learn more on GlobalGovernanceForum.org
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Juan González-Barba on Europe's Future: Values, Unity, and Leadership in a Fragmented World
As geopolitical fragmentation deepens, Ambassador Juan González-Barba reflects on Europe's future, the power of shared values, and how principled cooperation can help shape a more stable international order. Learn more on GlobalGovernanceForum.org
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Allan Rock on Fighting Grand Corruption and Renewing Global Governance
As grand corruption erodes democracy, security, and public trust, Allan Rock explores the case for an International Anti-Corruption Court, the future of UN reform, and the stronger global institutions needed to uphold the rule of law. Learn more on GlobalGovernanceForum.org
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Adam Lupel on Reforming Global Security, Reviving Multilateralism, and the Future of the UN
In a recent podcast conversation with Adam Lupel, we explored the growing mismatch between today’s global risks and the United Nations’ capacity to respond effectively. Our discussion ranged from Security Council paralysis and the corrosive effects of veto use, to the UN’s limited ability to...
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Jojo Mehta on Making Ecocide a Crime: Rewriting the Rules for Planetary Protection
In this episode, Jojo Mehta, CEO of Stop Ecocide International, explores the growing global movement to recognize ecocide as an international crime. Building on the vision she developed with the late Polly Higgins, Mehta explains why criminal law—alongside regulation—is essential to closing...
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Julia Haas on Safeguarding Media Freedom and Democratic Integrity in the AI Era
Artificial intelligence is transforming the global information ecosystem at breathtaking speed. In this timely conversation, Julia Haas, Head of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media’s AI & Freedom of Expression project, examines what this means for journalism, democratic governance…
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Peter J. Hoffman on Rethinking the UN at a Constitutional Moment
In this wide-ranging discussion, Professor Peter J. Hoffman argues that the United Nations’ current paralysis reflects a deeper crisis of legitimacy rather than a temporary political impasse. He examines why incremental reform is no longer sufficient, probing core questions of Security Council...
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Reimagining Global Governance: Augusto Lopez-Claros on the Movement for a Second UN Charter
In this excerpt from CBC Ideas, Augusto López-Claros reflects on a rapidly changing world and the civic movements demanding that the UN evolve with it. From the failures of the current system to the rising pressure from civil society, he outlines why the UN Charter’s original architects left…
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Martin Kreutner on the Perils of Strongman Diplomacy
Martin Kreutner, Dean Emeritus of the International Anti-Corruption Academy and a distinguished former member of the Austrian Federal Appeals Tribunal traces the historical roots of our present global order and compellingly argues that the shift to various forms of strongman diplomacy currently...
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Guy Sinclair on why the UN needs to adapt to 21st century realities
Professor Guy Sinclair explains how the UN has, over time, diverged from its original Charter, adapting in response to global shifts—sometimes enhancing its relevance, but at other times straining its legitimacy. Sinclair outlines four key factors driving institutional change: external shocks,...
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Cecelia Lynch on the Links between Inclusion, Peace and Prosperity
Cecelia Lynch, a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, is a leading thinker on the importance of inclusion as a catalyst for promoting sustainable, peaceful, social transformations. The idea is that inclusion should not just be limited to nation states but should from…
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Sundeep Waslekar on Our Civilizational Crises
Sundeep Waslekar eloquently explains why current nationalisms and our obsession with the primacy of the nation state are not able to deliver practical solutions to the problems that threaten our future as a human family. In addition to reforms to our current UN-based global governance…
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Sonia Sanchez Diaz on the Crisis in the Middle East
Professor Sonia Sanchez Diaz is a highly regarded analyst of the crisis in the Middle East, widely respected for her objectivity, impartiality and incisive analysis, which builds on a deep understanding of the region´s troubled history, its institutions, and peoples. In this podcast she examines...
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Ambassador Gerardo Bugallo on our Post-Cold War World
Gerardo Bugallo was Spain's Ambassador in Ukraine during the critical years 2013-17, a crucial period that spanned from the Euromaidan to the first years after the annexation of Crimea. In this podcast interview he shares fascinating insights on the end of the Cold War, the origins of the current...
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Michael Mandelbaum on Titans of the Twentieth Century
Michael Mandelbaum has written a fascinating book examining the role of major political leaders in shaping our recent history, for better or for worse. He is a highly regarded author with an insightful understanding of the factors that have shaped conflict and progress over the past century. Some...
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Wendy Broadgate: Deep into Danger Zone on Climate Change
Wendy Broadgate is a distinguished scientist who has worked in Earth system science and the science-policy interface for two decades. She is therefore singularly well-qualified to address the question of the dangers we face because of inadequate action to set our climate system within safe and…
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Anthony Annett on The Elements of a More Just Economy
Anthony Annett is an economist who spent two decades at the International Monetary Fund, including as speechwriter to the Managing Director. In an insightful podcast based on his book Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy he argues that we need to take a fresh look at...
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Soumya Swaminathan on Why we Need Stronger Global Health Governance
As the most recent Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization Soumya Swaminathan was on the forefront of the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Because of her distinguished background in policymaking spanning more than 30 years of experience bringing science and evidence into...
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Daniel Perell on Why We Need to Rethink our Global Governance Architecture
Daniel Perell currently serves as a co-chair of the Steering Group of the Coalition for the UN We Need, an umbrella group of civil society organizations that are collaborating to modernize the UN system, to better adapt it to the needs of the 21st century. He is thus extremely well-qualified to...
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Sandrine Dixson-Declève on The Need for a New Economic Paradigm
As co-president of the Club of Rome Sandrine Dixson-Declève is singularly well-qualified to speak to the major challenges we confront today and on which, in the search for solutions, we need much stronger levels of international cooperation. Widening income disparities have started to undermine...
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Sundeep Waslekar on A World Without War
Sundeep Waslekar is a distinguished social scientist who has thought a great deal about the causes and the instruments of war and the risks they pose to the future of humankind. He is the recent author of A World Without War, a book published by HarperCollins in which he argues that while the…
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Arunabha Ghosh on Mapping our Path to a Green Future
Arunabha Ghosh, an internationally recognized public policy expert, author and columnist is the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), one of Asia's top climate think-tanks. In numerous reports, articles and speeches, Dr. Ghosh has convincingly argued that confronting...
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Rebecca Shoot on Global Solutions to Global Problems
Rebecca Shoot, Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions, a US-based organization closely aligned with the ideals of the world federalist movement, is an international lawyer and democracy and governance practitioner with extensive experience supporting human rights, democratic…
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Andrew Strauss on the Desirability of a Global Parliament
Andrew Strauss, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Dayton School of Law, and a graduate of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs discusses why setting up a global parliament, perhaps initially by a core group of 20-30 countries, would significantly…
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Michael Mandelbaum on Our Brittle Global Security Landscape
Michael Mandelbaum, a distinguished author with seminal contributions to a better understanding of some of the world´s most intractable problems, discusses why we are failing in our efforts to protect the planet from the calamities of climate change and what to do about it. He also analyzes our...
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Steven Phelps on the Interconnectedness of Science and Religion
Steven Phelps is an American physicist, philosopher and translator holding a Ph.D. in Physics, with a specialization in cosmology, from Princeton University. For over a decade he held a research position in the Physics Department at Technion University in Israel and published original research on...
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Fernando Iglesias on the Fight Against Organized Crime in Latin America
Fernando Iglesias is a member of Parliament in Argentina and the Director of the Campaign for a Latin American and Caribbean Criminal Court Against Transnational Organized Crime (COPLA). Pervasive organized crime in the region is a huge drag on social and economic development, has led to sky-high...
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Cedric Ryngaert on Why the World Needs an International Anti-Corruption Court
Cedric Ryngaert is the Chairman of the Department of International and European Law at Utrecht University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Netherlands International Law Review. In this podcast he explores the role of an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) as a potentially powerful innovation...
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Michael Penn on Human Rights and the Development of Human Capabilities
Michael Penn, a professor of psychology and a trained clinical psychologist, explores the evolution of the concept of human rights over the past century and discusses why the unfoldment of a culture of respect for the dignity of the individual is essential to catalyse the creation of conditions…
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Kerstin Carlson on the Evolution of International Criminal Law
Kerstin Carlson is a professor of international law in Denmark at Roskilde University, as well as The American University of Paris. In this podcast she addresses a number of vital questions for the future of international criminal law. Can international criminal justice institutions remain…
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Jeffrey Knopf on the Unraveling of Our Nuclear Order
Professor Jeffrey Knopf, with the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California and with the Center on International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University explains why we can no longer rely only on deterrence, the...
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Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Susana Malcorra and Jody Williams on Rethinking Global Affairs to Confront Global Challenges
Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Susana Malcorra and Jody Williams have decades of combined experience in enriching the global debates on how to enhance the effectiveness of our mechanisms of international cooperation and innovate in ways that contribute to buttress our tottering global order. In this...
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Daniel Deudney on Humankind’s Nuclear Predicament
In an insightful interview Daniel Deudney, a distinguished author and teacher, likens the possession of nuclear weapons to owning a house in which we have placed boxes of dynamite with short fuses and given someone the authority, under some circumstances, to blow up the house. Except that, in the...
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Lisa Palmer on Our Hot and Hungry Planet
In her book Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change, Lisa Palmer analyzed the challenges we face in global food security as they relate to climate change. Over the next decade we are likely to see continued population growth, an acceleration in...
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Frank Van Gansbeke on Financial Innovations for Climate Change Mitigation
There is an urgent need to think imaginatively about changing incentives and channeling financial resources to fund the transition to a renewable energy economy. We are falling short although we have the instruments to do it. Much is at stake if we fail. Learn more on GlobalGovneranceForum.org...
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Tad Daley on the Idea of a Global Republic
Dr. Tad Daley has been thinking about some of the greatest challenges of our time and his first book, Apocalypse Never, was a trenchant analysis of how to rid the world of nuclear weapons and the accompanying mechanisms of international cooperation that would make that goal achievable within our...
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Maria Joao Rodrigues: The EU as a Template for International Cooperation
Maria Joao Rodrigues, the current President of the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in Brussels, made the transition from Employment Minister in Portugal in the government of Antonio Guterres to the European Council and the European Parliament. For the past two decades she has taken…
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Margarita Konaev on the Changing Nature of Warfare
Dr. Margarita Konaev is Deputy Director of Analysis and a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). She is interested in military applications of AI and Russian military innovation. She has written extensively on international security, armed...
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Olga Tokariuk on Russia’s Unprovoked War on Ukraine
Olga Tokariuk is a distinguished independent journalist and researcher based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She writes mainly about Ukrainian politics, international affairs, and the role of disinformation and its impact on democracies worldwide. In a compelling interview with our host Augusto Lopez-Claros…
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Michael Mandelbaum on War and Peace and the Lessons of History
Michael Mandelbaum has spent several decades thinking about the major global problems that we face, and his writings and opinions have been an invaluable source of insight, understanding and wisdom. Whether it is the future of war as an instrument of state power, the role of the UN in providing...
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Thomas G. Weiss on Rethinking Global Governance and the UN’s Founding
Thomas G. Weiss is a distinguished scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center who as past president of the International Studies Association, chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, editor of the journal Global Governance, and Research Director of the International Commission on...
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Johan Rockström on the Climate Challenges We Face
Johan Rockström is one of the world’s leading authorities on the impact of climate change. In a broad ranging interview with Ambassador Amanda Ellis, he highlights the importance of the removal of energy subsidies and the introduction of a carbon tax, the need for accountability and the…
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Professor Robert Klitgaard on Corruption, Heroes and the Purpose of Life
Drawing on a lifetime of experience advising governments on tackling corruption our guest addresses some of the critical questions of development, from poverty, education and opportunity to the question of life’s purpose and the development of human potential. Robert Klitgaard is a distinguished...
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Sweden's Ambassador Johanna Lissinger on our Climate Emergency
Our response to the challenges of climate change needs a significant boost; we need to do more and move more rapidly if we are to forestall its calamitous consequences. Stockholm+50 later this year will provide a unique opportunity to do so. Learn more at GlobalGovernanceForum.org Learn more on...
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Maria Fernanda Espinosa on Why This is no Time for Incrementalism
The world faces multiple crises across different fronts. Climate change and the associated temperature rise will interact in noxious ways with biodiversity, pollution, and the global economy. This is no time for incremental change; indifference is not an option. Learn more on...
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Hans Corell on UN Security Council Reform and the Rule of Law
We need to think creatively to enhance the effectiveness of the UN Security Council, to boost its ability to deal with threat multipliers like climate change, and to empower it to become a catalyst in the emergence of mature democracies governed by the rule of law. Learn more on...
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Nik Gowing on the Climate Emergency and Thinking the Unthinkable
Massive changes will be needed over the next several years, to our policies, institutions and way of thinking to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. Lack of action will imply the hollowing out of social stability and national security. Learn more on globalgovernanceforum.org Learn more…
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Jody Williams on the Need to Rethink the Concept of National Security
Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, surveying the many catastrophic risks that threaten our future, makes a powerful case to redefine national security in terms of human welfare rather than the maintenance of military establishments. For more information about this episode and the Global Governance…
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Daniel Kaufmann on the Destructive Effects of Corruption
Corruption has emerged as not only a destroyer of human prosperity but also a threat to our economic, social and political order. This podcast casts light on the causes, the impact and what to do about this malignant force in the 21st century. For more information about this episode and the…
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About this show
Welcome to the Global Governance Podcast with Augusto Lopez-Claros, where we explore the future of governance. Each episode will look at a different global issue and how governance plays a key role in its solution. From climate change to gender equality, from corruption to peace and security, we invite experts to explore a thought-provoking game of “what if?” and “why not?”, positing a world in much closer international cooperation. To learn more visit GlobalGovernanceForum.org.
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