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November 28, 2022 Protest Emerges As A Mixed Blessing For World Cup Host Qatar
Protest on the soccer pitch has proven to be a mixed blessing for World Cup host Qatar, exposing double standards in the Gulf state’s position as well as that of its critics.
11 min
November 24, 2022 The Qatar World Cup Soccer Upsets, Politics, And Sensitive Situations
Barely out of the starting blocks, the Qatar World Cup has already produced a fair share of upsets as well as politically and personally sensitive situations and incidents.
14 min
November 22, 2022 Behind Lofty Declarations, Major Muslim And Hindu Groups Compete For Power
As Indonesia passed the chairmanship of the Group of 20 (G-20) to India earlier this month, major Muslim and Hindu organisations, some backed by their governments, are battling to define the role of religion in global politics and whether the world's significant faiths need reform to harness the power of their convictions.
13 min
November 18, 2022 US Slow Walks Punitive Measure Against Saudi Arabia As Regional Tension Spills Into Qatar World Cup
Recent Saudi efforts to appease the Biden administration in the wake of the kingdom’s backing of last month’s OPEC+ oil production cut take on added significance in the wake of this week’s US midterm elections that have strengthened Joe Biden and weakened former President Donald J. Trump.
12 min
November 12, 2022 FIFA Uncovered A Discussion With Filmmaker Miles Coleman About His New Netflix documentary
The Qatar World Cup kicks off a week from now. It is the most controversial World Cup in the history of global soccer body FIFA and has been enveloped in controversy from the moment Qatar won its hosting rights in December 2010.
A four-part documentary, FIFA Uncovered, that has just premiered on Netflix, documents much of this and links the Qatar controversy to the broader issue of the soccer body’s corrupt culture.
It features fresh interviews with several former officials, among them some of the allegedly most corrupt sports officials of our age, saying they did nothing wrong. Several of these officials speak extensively in public for the first time.
Miles Coleman, the producer and writer of the documentary, is here to discuss all of this.
1 hr 9 min
November 10, 2022 Ukraine War Offers China Opportunity Fraught With Pitfalls
US President Joe Biden potentially made a strategic mistake when he framed the struggle for Ukraine as a battle between democracy and autocracy. In doing so, he did America’s main rival, China, an unintended favour.
27 min
November 05, 2022 Maneuvering Minefields China’s Xi Contemplates Visiting Saudi Arabia
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hit all the right cords when he spoke virtually with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan, at a meeting of the China-Saudi Arabia High-Level Joint Committee last month.
Mr. Wang's praise of the kingdom came amid Saudi reports, yet to be confirmed by China, of a pending visit by President Xi Jinping to the kingdom before the end of the year.
The Saudi reports did not mention the Chinese leader stopping in other countries, particularly Iran.
The reports' focus on the kingdom and Mr. Wang's remarks boosted Saudi hopes that Beijing may abandon its balancing act between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic republic.
10 min
October 31, 2022 The Group of 20’s Religion Forum: How much is too much balancing? A conversation with Ahmet Kuru
Religious leaders gather in Bali this week for their first Religion Forum 20 summit (R20) under the auspices of the Group of 20 or G-20 that brings together the world's largest economies.
The religious leaders are meeting two weeks before the G-20's political leaders are scheduled to gather in Indonesia, the group's current chair, for what potentially promises to be an acrimonious get-together attended by the presidents of the United States, Russia, and China.
The religious summit is likely to find it easier to agree on a common language than their political leaders, but that may be where the easy part ends.
I'll be discussing with acclaimed political scientist Ahmet Kuru the issues that undergird the gathering.
55 min
October 29, 2022 Christian Nationalism A Threat To Israeli National Security 1
The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support.
Rising anti-Semitism among Christian nationalists, together with Evangelicals, the mainstay of US grassroots support for Israel, threatens to drive a wedge between the community and Israel.
14 min
October 26, 2022 The Qatar World Cup - Footballing For Soft Power
To ensure that Qatar was relevant to the international community and had the necessary public empathy to support intervention on the Gulf state's behalf in a time of need, Qatari rulers concluded that Qatar's defence strategy would have to focus on soft rather than hard power.
18 min

About The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey

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Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in…