Worldviews
by Peter Slezkine
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Branko Milanovic: The Great Global Transformation
Branko Milanovic: The Great Global Transformation
About this podcast
Peter Slezkine, Director and Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center, hosts a series of conversations on international affairs with guests from around the globe.
*Worldviews is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 56 episodes
- Branko Milanovic: The Great Global Transformation · 52 min · Episode 55Branko Milanovic joins the show to discuss his latest book, The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order (2026). We…
- Mark Leonard: Europe in an Age of "Un-Order" · 1 h 1 min · Episode 54Mark Leonard, Co-Founder and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, joins Worldviews with Peter Slezkine to discuss Europe’s evolving identity, the current state…
- Fyodor Voitolovsky: Russia's Vision for Ending the War in Ukraine · 1 h 0 min · Episode 53Fyodor Voitolovsky, director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences, returns to the Trialogue to lay out Moscow's vision…
- Arvind Gupta: India's Rise as a Digital Power · 47 min · Episode 52Arvind Gupta, co-founder and head of the Digital India Foundation joins the Trialogue to discuss the role of technology in electoral politics, the importance of Y2K in…
- Arne Westad: Why Today Looks Like 1914 · 37 min · Episode 51Deck: Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University, joins the Trialogue to discuss his new book The Coming Storm, why the world today resembles…
- Hossein Kanani Moghaddam: Iran’s Outlook · 48 min · Episode 50Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, leader of the Green Party of Iran and former senior IRGC commander joins the Trialogue from Tehran to discuss the Strait of Hormuz, the nuclear…
- Federico Petroni: Italy’s National Interests · 49 min · Episode 49Federico Petroni, senior analyst at Limes, Italy's leading geopolitical journal, joins the Trialogue to discuss Europe’s anger over the U.S. attack on Iran, NATO’s fraught…
- Zhao Hai: What Would China Do? · 1 h 0 min · Episode 48Zhao Hai, Director of the International Politics Program in the National Institute for Global Strategy at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, returns to the Trialogue to…
- Mathew Burrows: Forecasting the Next World Order · 53 min · Episode 47Mathew Burrows, program lead of the Stimson Center's Strategic Foresight Hub, returns to the podcast for a forward-looking conversation. We discuss global demographic decline…
- Curt Mills: Conservative Anti-Interventionism · 49 min · Episode 46Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative magazine, joins the Trialogue to discuss the evolution of anti-interventionist thought on the American right. In this…
- Trialogue Live: The Expiration of New Start · 1 h 10 min · Episode 45The expiration of New Start on February 5 marks the end of over half a century of bilateral efforts to advance strategic arms control. On February 3, the Stimson Center and the…
- Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia’s Place in the World · 59 min · Episode 44Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs, returns to the Trialogue at the start of an already-eventful year to take stock of Russian strategy amid dramatic…
- Zhou Bo: What China Wants · 46 min · Episode 43Zhou Bo, a retired senior colonel in the PLA and a senior fellow in the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University, returns to the Trialogue to discuss…
- Kuiken and Hodges: The China Commissioners · 53 min · Episode 42Mike Kuiken and Josh Hodges, two commissioners on the congressionally appointed US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, join us to discuss the recommendations of the…
- Glenn Diesen: Will Europe Survive? · 1 h 1 min · Episode 41Glenn Diesen, professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and host of the Greater Eurasia Podcast, joins us to discuss the current state of affairs in Europe, including…
- Mathew Burrows: A Life in the CIA · 56 min · Episode 40Mathew Burrows, program lead of the Stimson Center’s Strategic Foresight Hub, joins us to discuss his career in the CIA and the National Intelligence Council, where he was the…
- John Mearsheimer: A World Tour · 1 h 14 min · Episode 39John Mearsheimer, world-renowned scholar of international relations, joins us to discuss the state of play in the Middle East, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. We also examine the…
- Leonard Benardo: Reexamining the “Open Society” · 1 h 0 min · Episode 38Leonard Benardo, Senior Vice President at the Open Society Foundations, joins us to discuss OSF’s emergence and evolution, defining values of open societies, and heterodox…
- Zhao Long: Beijing’s Balancing Act · 43 min · Episode 37Zhao Long, Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Strategic and Security Studies in Shanghai, returns to the Trialogue to discuss Beijing’s perspective on a slew of recent…
- Samuel Moyn: Can Multipolarity Save Liberalism? · 48 min · Episode 36Samuel Moyn, the Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, joins us to discuss the philosophical underpinnings of liberalism, its role in international…







