Nine Questions for the World

CNN Host Fareed Zakaria and Richard Haass examine the concept of “world order” and what to do to promote it in an age of revived great-power rivalry and global challenges.

Episode Guest: 

Fareed Zakaria (Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN). 

This episode is based on a live event that took place on November 16, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/does-world-order-have-a-future.

Richard Haass and Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li discuss how to contend with technologies that can do both good and harm.

Episode Guest: 

Fei-Fei Li (Codirector, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; Sequoia Professor, Stanford University).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on November 1, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/can-societies-keep-up-with-technology.

By all accounts, China is sure to have an outsize impact on the world over the next one hundred years. Richard Haass and Elizabeth Perry, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, consider China’s rise and the implications for global order.

Episode Guest:

Elizabeth J. Perry (Director, Harvard Yenching Institute).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on October 6, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/will-this-century-belong-to-china.

Richard Haass and Michelle McMurry-Heath, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Institute, discuss the future of biotechnology and its potential impact on food production, climate change, energy production, and medicine.

Episode Guest: 

Michelle McMurry-Heath (President and CEO, Biotechnology Innovation Organization).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on September 29, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/can-biotech-be-harnessed.

Birth rates are booming in some countries and plummeting in others. Leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard Haass analyze the most important trends and their consequences.

Episode Guest: 

Nicholas Eberstadt (Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on September 14, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/is-population-change-a-problem.

Richard Haass and Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics, assess the future of the labor market and examine how to provide workers with the skills and training they need in an era of ongoing technological change.

Episode Guest: 

Minouche Shafik (Director, London School of Economics and Political Science).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on July 15, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/does-the-twenty-first-century-need-a-new-social-contract.

Richard Haass and economist Nicholas Stern, chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, discuss the realities of climate change as well as renewable energy, carbon pricing, and the prospect of building a carbon-neutral economy.

Episode Guest: 

Nicholas Stern (Chair, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on June 16, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/will-the-world-meet-the-challenge-of-climate-change.

In the face of democratic backsliding around the world, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Anne Applebaum and Richard Haass discuss what needs to happen for democracy to survive.

Episode Guest: 

Anne Applebaum (Staff Writer, Atlantic).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on May 4, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/can-democracy-survive.

Richard Haass and Margaret MacMillan, one of the world’s foremost historians, discuss how best to apply history to better understand current global challenges, including the erosion of democracy, the rise of China, and Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Episode Guest: 

Margaret MacMillan (Professor, University of Toronto).

This episode is based on a live event that took place on April 13, 2021.

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/how-can-we-use-but-not-abuse-history.

The world is changing, and its future is forming around high-stakes challenges such as climate change and shifting geopolitical power. In this limited series, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass sits down with nine extraordinary thinkers to explore fundamental questions about the century to come.