Global Summitry Podcasts

In our latest interview with Professor Janice Stein, we examine the impact of President Trump and his policies on the most recent G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. We also discuss US foreign policy in a number of critical areas including the Middle East, North Korea, and Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin.

Professor Stein is one of Canada’s leading authorities on global affairs. She is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management at the University of Toronto and served as the founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University. For more on Professor Stein’s views, tune in to her podcast “Disrupting the Global Order” by Antica Productions.

This interview with David Victor examines the complicated requirements for the transition to a low carbon economy. David discusses questions of fossil fuel pricing, the role of coal and carbon capture and storage (CCS), the impact of innovation on the road to deep decarbonization, the adequacy of today’s electric grids and the consequences of the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Accord. David is a professor of international relations at UCSD and the director of the School’s Laboratory on International Law and Regulation. He has been a contributor to the UNFCCC’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

This interview with Thomas Hale is the first in a new podcast series titled “Climate Change Policy in the Aftermath of the Paris Accord.” Thomas Hale is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Professor Hale has written a great deal on managing transnational problems and climate change specifically. In this podcast, we explore the origin of the Paris Accord and the consequences of the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the agreement. For a previous discussion on the Paris Accord featuring Sir David King, check out Episode 5 of Global Summitry Podcasts.

We hope you have had a chance to listen to the first of this two-part podcast, which features Daniel Deudney’s examination of Trump’s trade and climate change policy. In the second half of our interview, we explore the possible impact of Trump administration policy in: Syria, relations with Russia and the overall ‘big question’– Trump’s impact on US leadership in the Liberal Order.

This podcast interview with Daniel Deudney of Johns Hopkins University is presented in two parts. In the first of this two-part podcast, Daniel focuses on Trump trade policy and Trump climate change policy. Daniel is critical of both and explores what the consequences of Trump policy in the areas of trade and climate change may have on the Liberal Order.

In this interview with Nick Bisley an international relations expert from La Trobe University in Melbourne, we examine the reactions from ‘down under’ to Trump foreign policy. Australia is one of America’s key allies in the Liberal Order in Asia. The early ‘rocky start’ to Australia - Trump foreign policy’ relations raises many of the key issues in US foreign policy in the Age of Trump. Where does Trump’s ‘America First’ approach stand today and how do Australia’s leaders react to it? If the US in the Age of Trump is no longer willing automatically to step up to global leadership, what stance will Australia take in the future. In particular, how does Australia balance its relations with China and the United Sates in global and regional trade and security matters?

Nick is the Executive Director of La Trobe Asia at La Trobe University and is also Editor-in-Chief of the venerable Journal, the Australian Journal of International Affairs as well as the director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

In this interview with Thomas Wright of Brookings, we begin a discussion of US foreign policy in the Age of Trump with a look back at citizen Trump’s views of US global economic and political policies. Wright has argued for some time that Trump has held a remarkably coherent and critical view of American foreign policy since the 1980s. We then delve into the elements of Trump’s ‘America First’ policies and examine how, or if, those foreign policy elements have changed since Trump became president. Where does his ‘America First’ approach stand today, whether looking at trade policy, US alliance commitments, or policy initiatives in Syria or in North Korea?

Tom is fellow and director of the Project on International Order and Strategy as well as a fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution.

This is another interview on the critical subject of American foreign policy in the Age of Trump. Like other podcasts in this series, this podcast explores the changes under President Trump and his officials to American foreign policy and its consequences for the Global Order that America constructed over the last 70 years.

Miles Kahler is currently a Distinguished Professor at School of International Service American University and a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has had a distinguishes career at various universities including Princeton and the University of California at San Diego. He is today one of the Academy’s experts in international relations and international political economy. Take a listen.

This is the first of several interviews on American foreign policy under Donald Trump. President Trump as a candidate rejected many of the foundations of the Global Order that the United States helped establish. Whether initiatives on free trade, relations with allies or rivals, the construction of numerous multilateral institutions, candidate Trump, now President Trump, urged radically different American foreign policy approaches. These interviews will explore the changes to American foreign policy and its consequences for the Global Order that America constructed over the last 70 years.

We begin with an interview with Rory MacFarquhar. Rory is currently a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics but from 2010 to 2016 he held various positions in the Obama Administration. Rory served on both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council and he led various policy teams on international economic and trade issues, including US-China economic relations; economic support for Ukraine, Tunisia and Iraq.

This podcast interview with the Right Honorable Paul Martin, interviewer Alan Alexandroff, a Senior Editor here at Global Summitry, is the embedded podcast accompanying Mr. Martin’s video text. This video was delivered at the opening of the Vision 20 meeting in China (March 29th to April 1st) at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. As the Editor’s Note in the text points out, the V20 brought together scholars from various international policy fields, think tank leaders, civil society and private sector representatives and various government leaders, all to generate ideas and actionable items for the long and medium term in global governance.

Paul Martin was the Prime Minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006 and the Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2002. Mr. Martin was the inaugural chair of the Finance Ministers’ G20. Mr. Martin not only was central in setting up this first version of the G20 but was one of the earliest advocates of a leaders’ level summit – what eventually became the G20. As Mr. Martin wrote in 2005 in the venerable journal Foreign Affairs, “The main justification for an L-20 can be expressed very simply: the boundaries between countries are growing fainter. Globalization is not a process that can be turned on and off at will.” In this interview with Mr. Martin, our Senior Editor explores with the former Prime Minister his assessment of the Leaders’ G20. Where has the G20 been a success; where has it failed to meet the expectations of Mr. Martin? What recommendations does Mr. Martin have for this most critical of leaders’ summits in the hopes of making the Summit more effective?