This episode explores the implications of the U.K. elections which took place on July 4. What does a return to centrism mean for British politics? And how do socio-economic transformations and fragmented cultural horizons play a role? Listen to also hear what the results could mean for transatlantic relations.
Guest featured in this episode:
Mark Leonard is the Director and Co-Founder of the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. He further holds the Henry Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the U.S. Library of Congress. Leonard is a renowned expert on geopolitics, EU politics and institutions, on EU-Russia relations and foreign policy in Europe more generally. He has written widely on transatlantic relations as well as on China. Leonard was the chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geoeconomics, and has also been at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, D.C. as a transatlantic fellow and was a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences in Beijing. Mark Leonard is a regular commentator on his many areas of expertise, and he advises governments as well as international organizations. His articles have been published in Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Financial Times, Le Monde, in Foreign Policy, New Statesman, and The Economist, to name just a few.
Furthermore, Leonard hosts a weekly podcast on current affairs and writes a syndicated column on global affairs with Project Syndicate. He has published several books, among which: Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century (2005), What Does China Think? (2008) – currently he is writing the sequel – and The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict (2021).
