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Women Leaders

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  • The podcast that discusses world complexities with women experts!


    Our host Ilana Bet-El welcomes one or two women experts for an informal conversation to explain, analyse, discuss and highlight events of the day by an array of wonderfully qualified women from all around the world.


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    • Proudly partnered with European Leadership Network

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  • Elections, Wars and Summits

    Elections, Wars and Summits
    Jul 12 2024
    July 2024 may end up being remembered for various reasons, such as wars in Ukraine, Israel and Gaza or the launch of the Arianne 6 rocket by the European Space Agency or the floods in Western Europe and the extreme heat in the eastern Mediterranean, all caused by climate change. At this point however, these are the backdrop to another set of events: elections and summits. In this year of elections around the globe it is perhaps unsurprising that two polls happened suddenly: in both the UK and France the heads of government called unexpected elections. In the UK this resulted in a massive won for the Labour Party, ending 14 years of Conservative rule. In contrast in France the outcome was stalemate: no-one won outright. While many in France and outside it are trying to define what this means, NATO members are meeting in Washington to mark the 75th anniversary of the alliance. To navigate these elections and summits, Ilana Bet-El is joined by Jane Kinninmont, Director of Policy and Impact at The European Leadership Network, and Florence Ferrando, producer of this podcast and Senior Consultant in Cyber and Strategic Intelligence at Forward Global.This episode was recorded on July 11 2024.MentionsJane’s inspiration: Gareth SouthgateFlorence’s inspiration: Swann Périsssé show on French elections - YoutubeFirst past the post elections vs Two round systemUK election results /France election resultsNATO Washington summit declarationJane's SWP paper on NATO and its southern neighbourhoodFollow our guestsJane Kinninmont: LinkedIn, Twitter/XFlorence Ferrando: LinkedinYou can also followOur InstagramOur partner European Leadership Network Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook & websiteIlana Bet-ElCreditsProduction:Florence FerrandoMusic: Let Good Times Roll (ZXIIIJUU2ISPZIJT)Supported by the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Open Society Foundations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    49 mins
  • It's the economy, stupid - and sanctions

    It's the economy, stupid - and sanctions
    Jun 28 2024
    The focus on the defence aspects of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine often draws attention from the economic war taking place in parallel. Every few weeks the US or the EU drop another packet of sanctions on Russia, in attempts to hinder its capacity to pursue the war — and in absolute lockstep a wave of analyses, data and disinformation will appear, largely rubbishing the sanctions and their effects. In this way the EU this week dropped its 14th round of sanctions, and Russia put out another series of messages about the EU harming itself more than Russia. It is a vicious cycle that largely obfuscates not only the success of sanctions but also the broader economic picture of the war — and beyond.To wade through the data, and make sense of them, Ilana Bet-El welcomes back Agathe Demarais, Senior Policy Fellow for Geoeconomics at the ECFR and the woman who literally wrote the book on sanctions! Moving along economic measures and countermeasures, they tease out in the clearest terms the broader economic context of the war against and Ukraine, as well as the realities of the global economic situation and its future, from demography to corporate interests.As they say in Cabaret: That clinking, clanking sound / Can make the world go ‘round!This episode was recorded on June 18 2024.Mentions and further resourcesAgathe’s inspiration: “La Horde du Contrevent” Alain DamasioAgathe’s book on sanctionsOur previous episode with Agathe “Sanctions all around”Our previous episode on Latin AmericaFollow us & our guestAgathe Demarais: Linkedin Twitter/XIlana Bet-ElInstagram @women_leaders_podcastOur partner European Leadership Network Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and websiteCreditsProduction: Florence FerrandoMusic: Let Good Times RollSupported by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Open Society Foundations Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    38 mins
  • Normalised Nationalism in Europe

    Normalised Nationalism in Europe
    Jun 14 2024

    Between June 6th and 9th, 27 member states held elections for the European Union’s parliament with over 300 million eligible voters. However only 51% voted, an unsurprising figure as democratic participation declines across the West. Equally unsurprising were the results of the vote, which, as always, resulted in the two major centrist blocs, the European People’s Party and the Socialists and Democrats, maintaining their majority, with some support from the Green and Liberal groups.

    However, far-right and nationalist parties performed very well, with the two major groupings gaining seats and nearly 20% of all MEPs. This outcome was predicted in the pre-election polls and hasn’t shocked many pundits, but thereality of an increased normalisation of nationalist politics in the European Parliament may be sobering for some.

    For 20 years now, nationalist and far/extreme right parties have slowly but surely gained electoral and political legitimacy. In recent years, such parties have won elections in the Netherlands, Italy, and Slovakia, and they sit in government in Finland, Sweden, and a few other countries as well. In all member states, nationalist parties sit in parliament, and their rhetoric has entered mainstream political discourses.

    In France, this outcome has had especially profound repercussions, as President Macron has now called for snap elections in response to the major losses experienced by his Renaissance party to Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s National Rally party.

    How did Europe, and indeed many other countries in the democratic world, come to this? Are mainstream politicians getting it wrong, or are they just of poor quality? Is there a better way forward? To answer these and many other such questions, Ilana Bet-El is joined by Catherine Fieschi, an expert on populism and European politics, in a lively and deeply probing conversation.

    This episode was recorded on June 13 2024.

    Notes

    • Catherine’s inspiration: “Homage to Catalonia” George Orwell
    • Catherine’s book “Populocracy"
    • Global social media users (April 2024): 5.07 billion, equating to 62.6% of global population. Meta had by far the most users (Facebook 3 billion, WhatsApp and Instagram 2 billion each) with Youtube, owned by Google, next at 2.5 billion.
    • Catherine Fieschi Linkedin & Twitter/X
    • Our Instagram
    • Our partner ELN Twitter, LinkedIn & website
    • Ilana Bet-El

    Credits

    • Production: Florence Ferrando
    • Music: Let Good Times Roll
    • Supported by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Open Society Foundations

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    46 mins
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