Mark Leonard's World In 30 Minutes

Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Dr Javier Solana, ECFR's Senior Policy Fellow, Nick Witney, and Advisor at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Hilmar Linnenkamp, discuss the recent report "More Union in European Defence". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

ECFR's Policy Fellow and Associate Director of the Madrid office, Francisco de Borja Lasheras, and Ukrainian artist, Yevgenia Belorusets, take a look at the everyday life of people in eastern Ukraine and the challenges they have to face. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Joseph Nye, political scientist and former Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, talks to ECFR Director Mark Leonard about his new book "Is the American Century Over?". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of World in 30 Minutes Mark Leonard, Director of ECFR, and the three experts Susi Dennison, Kadri Liik and Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, take a look at the Scorecard 2015 publication and discuss the highlights and low points of EU foreign policy in 2014. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Gowan, ECFR Associate Fellow and author of Chapter 6, believes that there were several crises the EU had to face in 2014. How to deal with the increased migration from African countries was the most challenging one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Francois Godement, director of ECFR’s China and Asia Programme, talks about the expansion of relations between the EU and Asia in 2014 through the EU’s confirmation of a free trade pact negotiation with Japan, and an agreement on joint action involving global security, along with the participation in peacekeeping efforts with South Korea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Susi Dennison, Senior Policy Fellow and expert on the MENA region, explains the EU's performance in the Middle East and North Africa in 2014, and the need for a new strategy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vessela Tcherneva, ECFR's director of the Wider Europe programme, gives her analysis on the EU's performance upon dealing with the western Balkans in 2014 and discusses which challenges the relations with Turkey and Bosnia will pose this year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thomas Wright, author of Chapter 2 from the European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2015, talks about US-EU relations last year and their convergence towards the end of the year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Russia's annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Eastern Ukraine turned EU-Russia relations from problematic into an urgent strategic problem. Kadri Liik, ECFR senior policy fellow and author of the 1st chapter called Russia from our European foreign policy publication Scorecard 2015, speaks about last year's challenges and what the EU could have done better. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.