Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

Le Monde diplomatique

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Each month, George Miller interviews LMD authors about their articles and the issues behind them

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Is China intent on remaking the world order?
MAR 14, 2024
Is China intent on remaking the world order?
<p>On this month's podcast we're joined by Le Monde diplomatique's new Asia head, Renaud Lambert, who writes in the current edition of the paper about China's global ambitions (‘China: the invention of the roadmap to global power'). The dominant western narrative maintains China is pursuing a master plan to remake the world in its own image, steered by a solitary autocrat, Xi Jinping. Rather than a grand strategy for world domination, Lambert finds a messier reality of devolved power and economic (...)</p> - <a href="https://mondediplo.com/2024/03/" rel="directory">2024/03</a> / <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/podcast" rel="tag">Podcast</a>, <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/2024/03 china" rel="tag">2024/03 China</a>
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The price of being Israel's best friend
FEB 8, 2024
The price of being Israel's best friend
<p>Our guest on this month's podcast is Eric Alterman, CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Brooklyn College and author of We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel (2022). In the February edition of the paper, Alterman writes on the latest phase of that long-running fight in an article entitled ‘Biden's lonely stance on the war in Gaza'. Biden's seemingly unconditional support for Israel is out of step both with much of his own party and, especially, with younger voters. With (...)</p> - <a href="https://mondediplo.com/2024/02/" rel="directory">2024/02</a> / <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/podcast" rel="tag">Podcast</a>, <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/2024/02 alterman" rel="tag">2024/02 alterman</a>
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Taiwan's history, Taiwan's future
JAN 25, 2024
Taiwan's history, Taiwan's future
<p>Taipei-based journalist Alice Hérait is our guest on this second podcast of the month on significant elections. Alice has a piece in the January edition of the paper entitled ‘Taiwan's divided loyalties' in which she writes about the disagreements over the island's history that still shape its politics and its people's view of their future. In this interview, she discusses the result of the elections on 13 January, a third consecutive victory for the governing – and pro-sovereignty – Democratic (...)</p> - <a href="https://mondediplo.com/2024/01/" rel="directory">2024/01</a> / <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/podcast" rel="tag">Podcast</a>, <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/2024/10 taiwan" rel="tag">2024/10 Taiwan</a>
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US election: the case of South Carolina
JAN 16, 2024
US election: the case of South Carolina
<p>With the US primary season now under way, in this month's podcast we turn the spotlight on the electoral contest in South Carolina, home state of prominent Trump challenger Nikki Haley and the state that ended Bernie Sanders' hopes of the 2020 Democratic nomination. Our guide to its political landscape is journalist Julien Brygo, who visited South Carolina's Baptist churches, university campuses and political activist meetings last November, a year out from a likely electoral rematch which (...)</p> - <a href="https://mondediplo.com/2024/01/" rel="directory">2024/01</a> / <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/podcast" rel="tag">Podcast</a>, <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/2024/01 usa" rel="tag">2024/01 USA</a>
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The end of conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh?
DEC 15, 2023
The end of conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh?
<p>In this month's podcast, our guest is Vicken Cheterian, who teaches history and international relations at the University of Geneva. In the December edition of the paper he writes about Azerbaijan's recent military offensive to seize control of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh (‘Armenia stands alone'). When war last broke out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, in 2020, Russia intervened. This time, it allowed ethnic cleansing of Armenians to proceed. In the interview, Cheterian explains (...)</p> - <a href="https://mondediplo.com/2023/12/" rel="directory">2023/12</a> / <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/podcast" rel="tag">Podcast</a>, <a href="https://mondediplo.com/tag/2023/12 azerbaijan" rel="tag">2023/12 azerbaijan</a>
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