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World Review from the New Statesman — 294 episodes
Losing Gaza
Susan Neiman: "It's not about being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, but pro-human rights"
How will elections shape the world in 2024?
What does it mean to be Jewish and on the left today?
Iran's interest in Israel, with former ambassador John Jenkins
NEW: Will the Israel Gaza war spread to the wider Middle East?
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Are China and the EU headed for a trade war? With Bruno Maçães
Is the war coming home to Russia?
How the Russia’s war on Ukraine will change the world, with Serhii Plokhy
Is the National Conservatism conference a glimpse into Britain’s future?
How can Putin be put on trial? With Philippe Sands
What is at stake in Ukraine’s counter-offensive?
The shifting geopolitics of Central Asia – with Raffaello Pantucci
The power politics of Victory Day
The new space race – with Tim Marshall
The US is running out of money: what happens next?
Noam Chomsky: Don't underestimate the risk of nuclear war
The roots of the conflict in Sudan
Should we call Giorgia Meloni a fascist? With David Broder
Xi and Putin: are there limits to the “no limits” friendship?
Why Russia arrested Evan Gershkovich, with Pjotr Sauer
What should Europe’s position on Taiwan be?
What we get wrong about Taiwan, with Paul Huang
The people of the state of New York vs Donald Trump
Why the Russian Orthodox Church supports the war in Ukraine, with Katherine Kelaidis
Israel chaos: has Benjamin Netanyahu lost control?
Are the Israeli protests the end of Benjamin Netanyahu?
Best friends forever? What we learned from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Moscow
Macron’s pensions gamble, with Georgina Wright
Will the Iranian protesters succeed? With Dina Nayeri
Why did Silicon Valley Bank collapse?
How Russian propaganda works, with Jade McGlynn
French strikes: will pension reform undo Emmanuel Macron?
How China lost Europe – with Andrew Small
Axis of Autocrats: Putin, Xi and Lukashenko
The big consultancy con, with Mariana Mazzucato
Kyiv stands, Putin doubles down, China talks peace
War in Ukraine – one year on. A World Review roundtable
Aliens or espionage? The mysterious objects unravelling US-China relations
How to adapt for an ageing world, with Vegard Skirbekk
Will Volodymyr Zelensky secure British jets for Ukraine?
How to reform the US police – with Neil Gross
As Israeli-Palestinian clashes intensify, is a third intifada coming?
Inside China’s global propaganda machine – with Joshua Kurlantzick
Tanke schön: a breakthrough for Ukraine
Why Putin must lose to save Russia, with Andrius Kubilius
Terror and tragedy in Ukraine
Can the opposition unite to win in Poland? With Radek Sikorski
The future of democracy for Israel and Brazil
European diplomacy in the 21st century, with Catherine Ashton
Inside China’s Covid crisis
Why the world misunderstands Ukraine, with Olesya Khromeychuk
Predictions for the world in 2023
Looking back at 2022
How the CIA tried to overthrow Mao Zedong - with John Delury
Allegations of corruption, from Qatar to FTX
BONUS: Could the West do more to prevent humanitarian disasters? With David Miliband
The future of media freedom in India, with Raksha Kumar
TV Rain: the turbulent history of Russia’s last independent media channel
How Chinese protesters get around censorship, with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Where do China’s lockdown protests go from here?
Why Elon Musk’s Twitter could clash with the EU – with Margrethe Vestager
What’s the cost of Qatar’s World Cup?
What Israel’s new right-wing government could mean, with Amir Tibon
Russia in retreat
The unlikely success of a Ukrainian football team, with Adam Crafton
US midterms: what red wave?
The US: whose country, ’tis of thee? | Nationalism Reimagined
How Putin fights wars, with Mark Galeotti
Lula and Netanyahu: the comeback kings
What is so dangerous about nationalism in India? | Nationalism Reimagined
Will China backtrack on zero Covid? With Yanzhong Huang
Borne ultimatum, chaos in Congress
Hungary and the endurance Viktor Orbán | Nationalism Reimagined
Can protesters topple the Iranian regime? With Fatemeh Shams
A new phase of war in Ukraine?
Why reimagine nationalism? | Nationalism Reimagined
What does it mean to be a Bad Jew? With Emily Tamkin
BONUS: Greta Thunberg in conversation with Björk - on protest, art and why politicians fail
Putin's strikes: the view from Kyiv
Chairman for Life? | China under Xi
Can we trust China’s GDP figures? With Jeremy Wallace
Navigating nuclear menace
“The party leads everything” | China Under Xi
The political legacy of Italian fascism – with David Broder
What does Giorgia Meloni’s triumph mean for Italy?
Great Expectations | China Under Xi
What does India really think of Russia? With Raji Rajagopalan
BONUS EPISODE: Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity – in Partnership with Club of Rome
“This is not a bluff”: would Vladimir Putin risk nuclear war?
Italian election: the rise of Giorgia Meloni
Could Ukraine win the war with Russia?
Vladimir Putin’s failures and the art of command – with Lawrence Freedman
How prepared is Europe for a winter without Russian gas?
Could the far right win in Sweden? With Dominic Hinde
The legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev
How Russia sees itself, with Orlando Figes
After six months of war in Ukraine, what will happen next?
Afghanistan, one year on | with Bilal Sarwary
What is Russia doing with Ukraine’s nuclear power plant?
How did US politics become so polarised? With Nick Bryant
Why the Democrats’ big bill matters
How serious is the Taiwan Strait crisis?
BONUS: Putin can still be toppled, with Leonid Volkov
How will China respond to Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit?
Election law dispute threatens to reopen Bosnia’s wounds, with Gerald Knaus
Is the far right about to come to power in Italy?
What Ukraine needs now from the West, with Lesia Vasylenko.
The global fallout of the war in Ukraine
BONUS: What will Zeitenwende mean for Germany? With Katarina Barley, vice-president of the European Parliament
Behind Sri Lanka’s economic collapse
What does Boris Johnson’s resignation mean for UK foreign policy?
What does Yair Lapid as prime minister mean for Israel?
Has the US given up on ever stopping gun violence?
What Trump and Putin got wrong, with Marie Yovanovitch
How will the end of Roe vs Wade transform America?
China’s broken promises on Hong Kong, with Chris Patten
BONUS EPISODE: Will the world end its addiction to growth? With the Club of Rome
Why is Europe facing a summer of discontent?
Is Emmanuel Macron to blame for the rise of the far right? | France Elects
How Nato can protect Ukraine, with Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Was Angela Merkel too easy on Russia?
Will Emmanuel Macron lose his parliamentary majority? | France Elects
What the West must do to stop Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, with Bruno Maçães
Could Mélenchon be France’s next prime minister?
What happened in Ireland’s mother and baby institutions? With Deirdre Finnerty
Is Hungary undermining the West’s resolve on Ukraine?
Can nuclear power ever be considered safe? With Serhii Plokhy
Australia’s climate change election, Covid in North Korea, and will the US ever act on gun control?
The risks facing Ukrainian refugees – with Suzanne Hoff
Buffalo shooting and the dangers of "great replacement theory"
How China targets Uyghurs around the world
What will the return of the Marcos dynasty mean for the Philippines?
Where will South Korea’s new president lead the country?
Why the US Supreme Court is going backwards on abortion rights
How autocrats manipulate history, with Katie Stallard
Victory for Emmanuel Macron and Twitter for Elon Musk
Is populism beatable? With Yascha Mounk
Emmanuel Macron defeats Marine Le Pen | France Elects
How to counter the rise of the far right in Europe, with the FES | France Elects
Will China change its Covid course?
Can Emmanuel Macron win back left-wing voters? | France Elects
Russian soldiers asked my parents, “Why are you leaving Ukraine?” – Olia Hercules
BONUS: Travelling through Macron’s France, from the Channel to the Mediterranean
What happens if Finland and Sweden join Nato?
What’s going on inside the Kremlin, with Andrei Soldatov
Macron and Le Pen qualify for the second round of the French presidential election | France Elects
Could Vladimir Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?
Could Marine Le Pen really win the French presidency? | France Elects
Why North Korea is testing weapons right now, with Jean Lee
Europe’s new Iron Curtain
Where does China stand on Russia’s war in Ukraine? With Bonny Lin
Reporting Russia’s war in Ukraine
How Ukraine has strengthened Emmanuel Macron | France Elects
Andrey Kurkov: "This war will last as long as Putin is alive"
Is Russia setting the agenda on Ukraine? With former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Zelensky’s effective campaign for Western support
How Orbán is responding to Putin’s war, with Péter Krekó
Why Putin's war in Ukraine is a war on the free world, with Estonia's President Alar Karis
How to end the world’s dependence on Russian oil and gas
How is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacting the French presidential campaign? | France Elects
Why Russia gambled on Ukraine, with Bruno Maçães
Russia’s war on Ukraine – Can more be done to help?
Russia’s war, Ukraine’s fight
Standing up for the world’s refugees from Afghanistan to Ukraine, with Rory Stewart
Is the war with Ukraine the beginning of the end for Putinism? With Mark Galeotti
War in Ukraine: what is Putin’s end game?
Russia invades Ukraine – how far will Putin go?
What is happening to the French right? | France Elects
How bad could China-US relations get? With Rana Mitter
Does Russia still intend to invade Ukraine?
What the Indian state elections mean for Narendra Modi, with Ravinder Kaur
Peng Shuai at the Olympics, and Russia on Europe’s border
Will 2022 be the foreign affairs election? | France Elects
How to win back trust in politicians, with the Icelandic PM Katrín Jakobsdottír
Vaccine protests in Canada and victory for the Portuguese Socialists
Why the US needs bipartisanship| with Ro Khanna
Report from Kyiv: Will Russia invade?
Who will win the French presidential election? | France Elects
The fight to prosecute Syrian war criminals | With Joumana Seif
What the Winter Olympics reveal about China's zero-Covid strategy
Who counts? Voting rights under Joe Biden | Battle for the Soul of America
Could Silvio Berlusconi become Italy’s next president?
Crises at Russia’s borders, a new Czech prime minister signals West, and Trump’s hold on the Republican Party
Undoing Trumpism? Immigration under Joe Biden | Battle for the Soul of America
What threatening Ukraine says about Russian identity, with Peter Pomerantsev
Elections to watch in 2022
Is America back? Foreign policy under Joe Biden | Battle for the Soul of America
What it will take to stop climate change, With Christiana Figueres
2021 in review: the biggest stories of the year
World Review’s predictions for 2021: what came true?
How farmers fight for democracy in India, with Mukulika Banerjee
Putin’s plans for Ukraine, Chile’s presidential election and the German coalition
Has the world failed to share vaccines? | with Covax managing director Aurélia Nguyen
The fate of abortion rights in the US, the Biden-Putin summit and a Beijing Olympic boycott
Farewell Merkel, hello Scholz | Germany Elects
Turkey’s escalating crisis, with Ece Temelkuran
Travel bans, the migrant crisis and the rise of Éric Zemmour
Afghanistan under the Taliban, with John Simpson
Kyle Rittenhouse, Europe’s anti-lockdown protests and the disappearance of Peng Shuai
Europe needs to be tougher on Belarus | Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
The Paris terror trial, the fallout from Cop26 and Russian troops on the Ukrainian border
Samir Saran on India-US relations
Political crisis in Bosnia, Joe Biden’s presidency and the French election debate
The threat to Democracies: Hong Kong exile Nathan Law
Climate, migration and Democratic crises
The coming migration boom, with Parag Khanna
The climate and Covid-19: Who pays for government inaction?
COP26: EU climate chief Frans Timmermans warns of the costs of inaction
Can COP26 achieve anything?
Who is Japan’s new prime minister, Fumio Kishida?
The road to a coalition | Germany Elects
What does Michel Barnier believe?
How did Germany vote? | Germany Elects
How Aukus marks a shift in global power
The Climate Election? | Germany Elects
Canada snap elections: why Justin Trudeau's gamble could backfire
Angela Merkel's effect on the German election campaigns | Germany Elects
America, 20 years after 9/11
US power after Afghanistan, with Bruno Maçães (REUPLOAD)
What the SPD surge means for Germany | Germany Elects
The fight to save democratic rights in the US
The fall of Kabul, with John Simpson
How do German voters see foreign policy | Germany Elects
Will Lula beat Bolsonaro to become Brazilian president?
What can be done to challenge Lukashenko's regime in Belarus?
The coalitions that could shape Germany's future | Germany Elects
Does the world need to learn to live with China? with Adam Tooze
What Father Stan Swamy's 'Custodial murder' means for Indian Human Rights
Mediterranean migrant tragedy: why are so many risking their lives
What the Tokyo Olympics means to Japan
Can Ukraine find a unifying national message?
Hong Kong: Apple Daily, democracy and the National Security Law
A European view of the transatlantic relationship
What we learned from the G7
Germany after Merkel - live at the Progressive Governance Summit
G7: What now for US multilateralism?
Decoding Global Britain's post-Brexit foreign policy
David Miliband: Covid-19 and the global hunger crisis
Left in crisis: why European social democracy is in decline
Israel and Gaza: what's behind the latest conflict?
West Bengal elections: a turning point for Indian politics?
2021 predictions reviewed
German election: who will replace Angela Merkel?
Hong Kong's sactions gridlock
The End of Policing
Spring You Ask Us Special!
Enter the Draghi
The Dark Night of Brazil
Israel's Sisyphean Elections
India's Farmers' Protests
Lessons From The Arab Spring
Myanmar's Democratic Future
Water Off a Dutch Back
What Alexei Navalny's arrest means for Vladimir Putin
Wuhan, One Year On
The Transatlantic Relationship
Trump Logs Off
Capitol Hill riot & 2021 predictions
2020 in Review
The Arab Spring, A Decade On
Aid in the Time of Covid
Europe's Renegades
Irish Joe
India in the World
The Next President
America Goes With The Joe
Biden His Time
Election Day Eve
Terminator Trump: Judgement Day
The Divided States of America
The End of America's Forever Wars
QAnon 101
The Iranian Playbook
Presidential Debate Special
You Ask Us Special!
Our Climate Future
The Riled West
Fallout in Lebanon
American Corruption
Central Banks in the Time of Crisis
All-American Fascism
What it Means to Be a Hero
Bonus: The Evolution of Anglo-German Relations
Macron's Balancing Act
The End of Cosmopolitan Turkey
Russia's Disinformation War
White America's Wake-Up Call
Exceptionalism vs the Coronavirus
The India-China-US Triangle
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