ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Manuel Lafont-Rapnouil and Tara Varma from ECFR's Paris office about something that many people hope will never happen: a President Marine Le Pen.The podcast was recorded in Paris on 31st March 2017.Bookshelf:Astrid de Villaines & Marie Labat, Philippot Ier, le nouveau visage du Front nationalMarie Tondelier, Nouvelles du FrontBrice Teinturier, "Plus rien à faire, plus rien à foutre"Picture: Flickr/ Blandine Le Cain

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Soli Özel, ECFR Council Member and Professor of International Relations at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and ECFR's Vessela Tcherneva on the upcoming Turkish constitutional referendum and Turkey's EU membership prospects.The podcast was recorded in Brussels on 24 March 2017.Bookshelf:Pankaj Mishra, Age of Anger: A History of the PresentJan-Werner Müller, What Is Populism?Lion Feuchtwanger, The Lautensack BrothersJames Burnham, The Managerial Revolution

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with Julius Krein, who has set up the American Affairs Journal with the aim of laying the intellectual foundations of the Trump movement.The podcast was recorded on 17 March 2017.Bookshelf:James Burnham - The Managerial RevolutionF.H. Buckley - The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of AmericaThe Claremont's Review of Bookshttps://amgreatness.com/Find Julius Krein's Journal here: https://americanaffairsjournal.orgPicture: Flickr/Gage Skidmore

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with ECFR's senior fellows, Asli Aydintasbas and Almut Moeller on the German-Turkish diplomatic spat, the forthcoming polls and the bigger picture of EU-Turkey relations.The podcast was recorded on 9 March 2017.Bookshelf:Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the EndJan Morris, Trieste and the Meaning of NowhereIvan Krastev, After Europe

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard speaks with James McGann, senior lecturer in International Studies and director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR's research director and Kadri Liik, ECFR's senior fellow, on the threats and challenges that think tanks face in a fast-paced, post-truth world.The podcast was recorded on 2 March 2017.Bookshelf:James McGann, The Fifth Estate: Think Tanks, Public Policy, and GovernanceJames McGann, Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and GovernanceDavid Cecil, The Young MelbourneStuart Jeffries, Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Wolfgang Ischinger, the Chairman of the Munich Security Conference. Together they are debriefing a very unusual MSC where the whole idea of the West was at stake.The podcast was recorded on 22 February 2017.Bookshelf:Thomas Schmid, Europa ist tot, es lebe Europa! Eine Weltmacht muss sich neu erfindenWolfgang Ischinger, Deutschlands neue VerantwortungWant to find out more about this topic? Reach for the Munich Security Conference 2017 website here: https://www.securityconference.de/en/activities/munich-security-conference/msc-2017/

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Alexander Stubb, the former Prime Minister of Finland. Together they are discussing the idea of flexible European integration in a post-Brexit environment.The podcast was recorded on 16 February 2017.Want to find out more about this topic? Reach for Alexander Stubb's publications here: http://www.alexstubb.com/publications/

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard is meeting with Michael Ignatieff, the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and one of the most thoughtful historians of liberalism. Together they are looking at the future of the liberal order following Trump's election and the rise of several illiberal powers elsewhere in the world. The podcast was recorded in Vienna on 7 February 2017.Want to find out more about this topic? Reach for Michael Ignatieff's publications here: http://michaelignatieff.ca/writing/index.php

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with ECFR's Research Director Jeremy Shapiro and ECFR Policy Fellows Anthony Dworkin & Mattia Toaldo how the EU should respond to Trump's decision to restrict access to citizens from 7 predominantly Muslim countries.The podcast was recorded on 31 January 2017.Bookshelf:Walter Russel Mead, The Jacksonian RevoltYuval Noah Harari, Sapiens. A Brief History of HumankindTom Nichols, Death of the ExpertiseFear & Love, at the London Design Museum until 23rd April 2017Picture: Lorie Shaull/ Flickr

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ECFR’s director Mark Leonard discusses with Vessela Tcherneva, Head of ECFR Sofia office, and Aslı Aydıntaşbaş & Kadri Liik, ECFR Senior Policy Fellows, how US President Trump is challenging the European security order along 3 fundamental dimensions: future of NATO, sanctions on Russia and relation with Turkey.The podcast was recorded on 25 January 2017.Bookshelf:Philip Roth, The Plot against AmericaDan Harris, 10% HappierJürgen Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth CenturyPicture: DonkeyHotey/Flickr

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