On this episode, Alliance for Securing Democracy co-directors Laura Rosenberger and Zack Cooper dive into the new information battle over COVID-19, which narratives China is pushing and why, and what it could mean next for China’s global strategy. How do China’s tactics mirror Russia’s and what does the end game look like?

In this week’s episode of Out of Order, GMF experts around Europe-- from DC to Paris to Ankara to Brussels to Berlin and Warsaw-- are sharing first-person, local perspectives on how the crisis is being handled and how – or whether-- nationalism is being leveraged by governments at an unprecedented moment.

Out of Order host Peter Sparding connects with Juliane Schäuble, the U.S. Correspondent for “Der Tagesspiegel”, to discuss her experience covering the White House, the U.S. primary election cycle and the current COVID-19 pandemic. Schäuble talks about translating U.S. politics for a German audience, working a primary press briefing, and reporting during the pandemic.

This is part two of our first collaborative episode series, Reporting Across the Pond, produced in coordination with the Europe Desk

Presenting Pt.1 of a collaborative episode series produced in coordination with the Europe Desk, BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University podcast.

This episode, led by The Europe Desk, features Brent Goff of Deutsche Welle News, who joined host Alistair Somerville from Berlin to discuss his career reporting on European and international issues.

In Pt. 2 Out of Order speaks to a European journalist about covering the U.S. election cycle and the rapid spread of COVID-19.

Join GMF hosts Rachel Tausendfreund and Sydney Simon for a discussion on the crisis in Idlib. In Washington, Sydney speaks with GMF Senior Fellow Jonathan Katz on the confluence of Syrian, Russian and Turkish interests and the stance of the United States. From Berlin, Rachel dives into the big picture implications of the crisis and its effect on EU-Turkey relations with GMF experts Jessica Bither, Migration Fellow & Senior Program Officer, and Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, the Director of GMF's Ankara Office.

President Macron’s observations about NATO’s “brain death” jolted Europe, eliciting a spectrum of reactions across the continent-- from ambivalence to annoyance to hysteria. Four months after, now that the dust has settled, what did Macron’s NATO comments reveal about Europe’s own cohesion on defense and where do things stand between France and its neighbors?

Kleine-Brockhoff, head of GMF’s Berlin office is the author of the recent book “The World Needs the West“ (Die Welt braucht den Westen, in its original German)  joins Out of Order to discuss why values that once felt rock solid now seems to be, well, out of order—and whether a course correction is possible. 

We also wanted to share a link to The Europe Desk, a favorite here at Out of Order. Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-europe-desk/id1474443374

In the season 3 finale, Out of Order travels to Marseilles, France to explore migration in the Mediterranean with key players in the region and, specifically, how the cities on the frontlines are managing and adapting to new realities.

The surprising election by Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) of two new leaders-- Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken-- who have been strongly critical of the already-shaky “grand coalition” with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU has thrown the future of German politics into question—again. At the same time, the Greens and the far-right AfD are growing in popularity and vying for power. Is the German political system going through a “slow-burning revolution”?

This week on Out of Order, Bret Schafer, a disinformation expert with GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy discusses his new project tracking Russian global narratives and where the Kremlin is succeeding, how the disinformation landscape is changing, and what it matters.