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01.22.2024
Susan Neiman: "It's not about being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, but pro-human rights"
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas has now passed the 100 day mark. On the 14 January Alona Ferber attended the Jewish Labour Movement conference, which happened to take place on the 100th day of the war. In this...
01.08.2024
How will elections shape the world in 2024?
In 2024 countries with more than 4 billion people will be sending their citizens to the polls. The US, Russia, and India to name a few; this is set to be the biggest election year in history. In this...
12.16.2023
What does it mean to be Jewish and on the left today?
Earlier this month we published a magazine with the cover ‘Being Jewish Now’. At this time of crisis in the Middle East, with divisions over the Gaza war and rising anti-Semitism, we asked a group of writers, thinkers, and activists...
11.18.2023
Iran's interest in Israel, with former ambassador John Jenkins
Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah – all of whom operate out of Beirut’s southern suburbs – have coordinated their positions in various ways for years in pursuit of what they see as the greater good. John Jenkins, former British ambassador to Saudi...
10.17.2023
NEW: Will the Israel Gaza war spread to the wider Middle East?
**NEW EPISODE** As Israel prepares a ground attack on Gaza, Katie Stallard is joined by Alona Ferber and Professor Lina Khatib to explore the wider geo-political situation in the Middle East - including mounting violence on Israel's west bank and...
08.21.2023
A message to World Review listeners
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06.08.2023
World Review is on hiatus
We won't be releasing regular World Review episodes any more. Interviews about the biggest foreign affairs stories will now be included as part of a rotation of interviews on the New Statesman podcast, available wherever you listen to podcasts. Hosted...
06.05.2023
Are China and the EU headed for a trade war? With Bruno Maçães
As the European Union weighs new sanctions on Chinese companies, which could be announced later this week, Katie Stallard speaks to Bruno Maçães, a former Portuguese Europe minister andthe New Statesman's foreign affairs correspondent,about his recent interview with Fu Cong, China's ambassador...
06.01.2023
Is the war coming home to Russia?
On Tuesday (30 May), several drones damaged buildings in Moscow in by far the largest attack on the Russian capital since the war in Ukraine began. Kyiv denies carrying out the strikes – at least one of which affected Rublyovka,...
05.29.2023
How the Russia’s war on Ukraine will change the world, with Serhii Plokhy
This week our guest is the historian Serhii Plokhy, a professor and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard and the author of a number of books, including his latest, The Russo-Ukrainian War. He speaks to Megan Gibson about Putin’s...
05.25.2023
Is the National Conservatism conference a glimpse into Britain’s future?
Last week British adherents – including several prominent ministers – of a traditionalist political movement with origins in post-Trump US politics attended the National Conservatism conference in London. It is a major influence in America but remains on the fringes...
05.22.2023
How can Putin be put on trial? With Philippe Sands
With international arrest warrants now active against Vladimir Putin, Ido Vock speaks to Philippe Sands, professor at UCL, about his attempts to force a prosecution of the Russian president. They discuss the crime of aggression, whether international tribunals could hear...
05.18.2023
What is at stake in Ukraine’s counter-offensive?
The Ukrainian army this week announced gains around Bakhmut, its first substantive advances in about six months. That progress has prompted analysts to ask: has Ukraine’s much-vaunted counter-offensive already begun? Not yet, perhaps. But it is coming. Katie Stallard...
05.15.2023
The shifting geopolitics of Central Asia – with Raffaello Pantucci
Fourteen months into Russia’s war against Ukraine, Katie Stallard speaks to Raffaello Pantucci, senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and the co-author of Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire, about how the geopolitical landscape of Central Asia...
05.11.2023
The power politics of Victory Day
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, oversaw a muted parade in Moscow for Victory Day on 9 May, which celebrates the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany. Where in previous years there have been grand shows of military might, this year...
05.08.2023
The new space race – with Tim Marshall
With a new era of great-power competition taking shape on Earth, Katie Stallard speaks to the journalist and author Tim Marshall about his new book The Future of Geography and the next geopolitical battleground: space. They discuss how the Cold War propelled the space race...
05.04.2023
The US is running out of money: what happens next?
Republicans in the US House of Representatives passed legislation last week that would increase the US debt ceiling only in exchange for significant spending cuts, and the repeal of some of Joe Biden’s key legislative achievements. The president has said...
05.01.2023
Noam Chomsky: Don't underestimate the risk of nuclear war
Ido Vock speaks to the American linguist Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most prominent commentators on international politics since the Vietnam War. A trenchant critic of American foreign policy, Chomsky explains what he thinks the US is getting wrong...
04.27.2023
The roots of the conflict in Sudan
A three-day ceasefire has allowed some countries to evacuate their citizens from Sudan, where rival military factions have been fighting since 15 April. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s de facto leader, has long been in a bitter power struggle with...
04.24.2023
Should we call Giorgia Meloni a fascist? With David Broder
Six months after Giorgia Meloni, leader of the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia party, became prime minister, Megan Gibson speaks to the historian and author David Broder about how Meloni has governed. They discuss whether she has confounded expectations, her relationship with...
04.20.2023
Xi and Putin: are there limits to the “no limits” friendship?
Since the start of the war in Ukraine last year, there has been a strong focus on the China-Russia relationship – and on whether Xi Jinping might be preparing to distance himself from Russia, or, as Emmanuel Macron hopes, to...
04.17.2023
Why Russia arrested Evan Gershkovich, with Pjotr Sauer
Nearly three weeks ago Russia arrested the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, accusing him of spying. Ido Vock speaks to Pjotr Sauer, a reporter on Russia for the Guardian who worked with Gershkovich at the Moscow Times, about the arrest, what this means for media...
04.13.2023
What should Europe’s position on Taiwan be?
Returning from a trip to Beijing, Emmanuel Macron, the French president, attracted international criticism when he told reporters that when it comes to Taiwan, Europe should resist becoming “America’s followers”. Megan Gibson in London and Ido Vock in Berlin discuss Macron’s...
04.10.2023
What we get wrong about Taiwan, with Paul Huang
Last week Tsai Ing-wen, president of Taiwan, and Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, met in California. Katie Stallard speaks to Paul Huang, a research fellow at the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation and a journalist, based in...
04.06.2023
The people of the state of New York vs Donald Trump
On Tuesday, the former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, amid allegations that he orchestrated hush-money payments to two women before the 2016 election. Katie Stallard in Washington DC, Megan Gibson...
04.03.2023
Why the Russian Orthodox Church supports the war in Ukraine, with Katherine Kelaidis
As the Ukraine war continues, one of the strongest supporters of Vladimir Putin has been Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Katherine Kelaidis, author of a new book on the Church, joins Ido Vock to discuss its history,...
03.30.2023
Israel chaos: has Benjamin Netanyahu lost control?
On Monday, after protests swept the country and trade unions threatened major strikes, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he was delaying his controversial judicial reforms package. Netanyahu said he was doing this “to avoid civil war”. Ido Vock in Berlin and Megan...
03.27.2023
Are the Israeli protests the end of Benjamin Netanyahu?
Protests continue in Israel and many trade unions have called immediate strikes over Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed reforms to the judiciary, which critics say will turn the country into a dictatorship. Over the weekend the defence minister was sacked for calling...
03.23.2023
Best friends forever? What we learned from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Moscow
On Wednesday Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement in Moscow promising to deepen their strategic partnership and stressing the importance of “settling the Ukraine crisis through dialogue”. Megan Gibson in London and Katie Stallard in Washington DC...
03.22.2023
Macron’s pensions gamble, with Georgina Wright
The French president Emmanuel Macron’s government narrowly survived a confidence vote after it invoked a contentious article of the constitution to override parliament and pass an unpopular reform to the pensions system. The move enraged the opposition and unions, which...
03.20.2023
Will the Iranian protesters succeed? With Dina Nayeri
As protests against the Iranian regime continue, Megan Gibson speaks to the award-winning writer Dina Nayeri, whose latest book is Who Gets Believed When the Truth Isn’t Enough? They discuss the uprising in Iran since Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by...
03.16.2023
Why did Silicon Valley Bank collapse?
Over the weekend, Silicon Valley Bank, a lender to some of the biggest names in the technology world, became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis. Regulators scrambled to contain the fallout from the collapse as share prices plummeted,...
03.13.2023
How Russian propaganda works, with Jade McGlynn
One year into Russia's war against Ukraine, Katie Stallard speaks to Jade McGlynn, an expert on Russian propaganda and memory politics, about how the Kremlin has framed the conflict at home. McGlynn is an academic researcher at King's College London and the author...
03.08.2023
French strikes: will pension reform undo Emmanuel Macron?
On Tuesday (7 March), hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest Emmanuel Macron’s attempts to raise the retirement age. Workers in a variety of sectors – including education, transport, energy and waste – downed tools on...
03.06.2023
How China lost Europe – with Andrew Small
Following a flurry of Chinese diplomatic efforts in Europe, culminating in a visit to the Munich Security Conference on 18 February by Wang Yi, the country's top diplomat,, Katie Stallard speaks to Andrew Small, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund's...
03.02.2023
Axis of Autocrats: Putin, Xi and Lukashenko
The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met with China’s leader Xi Jinping in Beijing this week. A staunch ally of Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko would have been eager to demonstrate his close relationship with another major world leader. For Beijing, however, the visit...
02.27.2023
The big consultancy con, with Mariana Mazzucato
Megan Gibson speaks to the economist and author Mariana Mazzucato, professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. The Big Con is her latest book, co-written with Rosie Collington, which exposes the consequences of governments’ dependency on consultancies such as...
02.23.2023
Kyiv stands, Putin doubles down, China talks peace
Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Monday (20 February) to demonstrate what he called America’s “unwavering support” for Ukraine’s war effort. It was the first time a US president had visited the country since Russia first attacked...
02.20.2023
War in Ukraine – one year on. A World Review roundtable
As Ukraine marks one year since Russia’s invasion, Ido Vock is joined by Ukrainian journalist and broadcaster Maria Romanenko, military expert Mark Galeotti and the New Statesman’s writer at large Jeremy Cliffe. They discuss how Ukrainians felt at the outbreak of...
02.16.2023
Aliens or espionage? The mysterious objects unravelling US-China relations
Over the past two weeks, a number of mysterious objects have been shot down from the skies over the US and Canada. It all began with a suspected Chinese spy balloon, which was brought down off the coast of South...
02.13.2023
How to adapt for an ageing world, with Vegard Skirbekk
Following the Japanese prime minister Kishida Fumio's recent warning that his country's demographic crisis was approaching a tipping point, Katie Stallard speaks to Vegard Skirbekk, a population economist at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and author of Decline and Prosper: Changing...
02.09.2023
Will Volodymyr Zelensky secure British jets for Ukraine?
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky visited London this week, meeting with the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. It is only his second trip abroad since the war with Russia began, after heading to America in December. Megan Gibson in London and Ido...
02.06.2023
How to reform the US police – with Neil Gross
As the United States grapples with the killing of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man who died after being beaten by five police officers in Memphis in January, Katie Stallard speaks to Neil Gross, a former police officer and professor of...
02.02.2023
As Israeli-Palestinian clashes intensify, is a third intifada coming?
Last week a deadly raid by the Israeli army in the West Bank city of Jenin and a shooting in East Jerusalem capped one of the bloodiest months in Israel and the occupied territories, outside of open war, in years.Antony Blinken,...
01.30.2023
Inside China’s global propaganda machine – with Joshua Kurlantzick
With China’s military and economic power continuing to grow, Katie Stallard speaks to Joshua Kurlantzick, a journalist and fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, about Beijing’s ambition to become an information superpower. They discuss his new book, Beijing’s Global Media...
01.26.2023
Tanke schön: a breakthrough for Ukraine
This week Olaf Scholz confirmed that Germany will send 14 Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine and gave partner countries permission to send their tanks too. The decision, which could have a significant effect on the war, came after months...
01.23.2023
Why Putin must lose to save Russia, with Andrius Kubilius
Why Putin must lose to save Russia, with Andrius Kubilius As Western leaders debate what further military support they can offer Ukraine, Ido Vock speaks to the former Lithuanian prime minister Andrius Kubilius. They discuss his experience growing up in...
01.19.2023
Terror and tragedy in Ukraine
A helicopter carrying senior Ukrainian officials crashed on Wednesday (18 January) near a nursery in a suburb of Kyiv. According to reports, children were among those killed, as well as three government officials including the interior minister Denys Monastyrsky –...
01.16.2023
Can the opposition unite to win in Poland? With Radek Sikorski
Ido Vock speaks to the former Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski about the opposition’s plans to oust the hard-right Law and Justice party in this year’s parliamentary elections. They also discuss Warsaw’s support for Ukraine and its refugees, why eastern...
01.12.2023
The future of democracy for Israel and Brazil
On Sunday (8 January), hundreds of Jair Bolsonaro supporters stormed Oscar Niemeyer’s modernist government buildings in the Brazilian capital Brasilia in an apparent attempt to overthrow the current president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Ido Vock and Jeremy Cliffe...

What's World Review from the New Statesman about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

World Review from the New Statesman episodes:

Susan Neiman: "It's not about being pro-Israel or pro-Palestine, but pro-human rights"

How will elections shape the world in 2024?

What does it mean to be Jewish and on the left today?

Iran's interest in Israel, with former ambassador John Jenkins

NEW: Will the Israel Gaza war spread to the wider Middle East?

A message to World Review listeners

World Review is on hiatus

Are China and the EU headed for a trade war? With Bruno Maçães

Is the war coming home to Russia?

How the Russia’s war on Ukraine will change the world, with Serhii Plokhy

Is the National Conservatism conference a glimpse into Britain’s future?

How can Putin be put on trial? With Philippe Sands

What is at stake in Ukraine’s counter-offensive?

The shifting geopolitics of Central Asia – with Raffaello Pantucci

The power politics of Victory Day

The new space race – with Tim Marshall

The US is running out of money: what happens next?

Noam Chomsky: Don't underestimate the risk of nuclear war

The roots of the conflict in Sudan

Should we call Giorgia Meloni a fascist? With David Broder

Xi and Putin: are there limits to the “no limits” friendship?

Why Russia arrested Evan Gershkovich, with Pjotr Sauer

What should Europe’s position on Taiwan be?

What we get wrong about Taiwan, with Paul Huang

The people of the state of New York vs Donald Trump

Why the Russian Orthodox Church supports the war in Ukraine, with Katherine Kelaidis

Israel chaos: has Benjamin Netanyahu lost control?

Are the Israeli protests the end of Benjamin Netanyahu?

Best friends forever? What we learned from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin’s meeting in Moscow

Macron’s pensions gamble, with Georgina Wright

Will the Iranian protesters succeed? With Dina Nayeri

Why did Silicon Valley Bank collapse?

How Russian propaganda works, with Jade McGlynn

French strikes: will pension reform undo Emmanuel Macron?

How China lost Europe – with Andrew Small

Axis of Autocrats: Putin, Xi and Lukashenko

The big consultancy con, with Mariana Mazzucato

Kyiv stands, Putin doubles down, China talks peace

War in Ukraine – one year on. A World Review roundtable

Aliens or espionage? The mysterious objects unravelling US-China relations

How to adapt for an ageing world, with Vegard Skirbekk

Will Volodymyr Zelensky secure British jets for Ukraine?

How to reform the US police – with Neil Gross

As Israeli-Palestinian clashes intensify, is a third intifada coming?

Inside China’s global propaganda machine – with Joshua Kurlantzick

Tanke schön: a breakthrough for Ukraine

Why Putin must lose to save Russia, with Andrius Kubilius

Terror and tragedy in Ukraine

Can the opposition unite to win in Poland? With Radek Sikorski

The future of democracy for Israel and Brazil