Podcasts by Out of Order

Post-Pandemic Order: A Conversation with Pete Buttigieg at Brussels Forum from 2020-06-11T17:22:28

Pete Buttigieg—the Democratic party's first openly gay presidential candidate and a veteran who served in Afghanistan—has gained international prominence. In a conversation originally streamed l...

Post-Pandemic Order with Meghan O'Sullivan from 2020-05-28T17:40:07

On this week’s episode of Post Pandemic Order, host Julie Smith discusses the coronavirus and disruptions in the global energy market with Meghan O’Sullivan the Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of th...

Post-Pandemic Order with The Atlantic’s George Packer from 2020-05-21T17:46:32

In a new essay for The Atlantic, titled “We Are Living in a Failed State,” veteran writer George Packer observes: “If the pandemic really is a kind of war, it’s the first to be fought on this so...

Post-Pandemic Order with Dr. Manuel Muñiz Secretary of State for Global Spain from 2020-05-14T17:11:31

Among the hardest hit in Europe, Spain is cautiously charting a way out of its strict countrywide lockdown. Manuel Muñiz, Secretary of State for Global Spain (a senior minister role in the count...

Post-Pandemic Order: German Green Cem Özdemir on Germany’s Crisis Response, Democracy, and the Big Picture from 2020-04-30T15:31:15

Though this pandemic is first and foremost a health battle, the experience has also surfaced ideological clashes: autocracy vs. democracy; globalization vs. nationalism; left vs. right; intercon...

Frontlines of Democracy: Fighting Coronavirus, Preserving Democracy from 2020-04-24T16:33:04

Fighting the Coronavirus, Preserving Democracy:  A Conversation with USAID’s Brock Bierman 

While the headlines focus on the world’s larger nations, the pandemic is also hitting Europe’s ...

Post-Pandemic Order: Former EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström on Europe’s Response and its Economic Future from 2020-04-23T12:49:24

Former EU trade commissioner and member of the Swedish Liberals party Cecilia Malmström joins GMF’s Rachel Tausendfreund this week to discuss Europe’s response to the pandemic and its economic f...

Post-Pandemic Order: Senator Chris Murphy on America’s Global Response from 2020-04-16T13:00

On the first episode of GMF’s new mini-series “Post-Pandemic Order,” U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) joins Julie Smith to talk America’s global response to the pandemic, how the pandemic could ...

Pandemic Playbook: How Beijing is Shaping its Own Story— and Learning from Moscow. from 2020-04-10T13:02:57

The Chinese government appears to be taking a page from Russia’s playbook-- by deploying disinformation to both distract and divide, it’s working to cover up its own shortcomings in responding t...

Perspectives on the Pandemic from 2020-03-27T14:14:23

As the coronavirus upends life in ways that seemed unimaginable just a few weeks ago, governments are responding differently to the crisis. From border closures, export bans, and stay at home or...

Reporting Across the Pond Pt. 2 from 2020-03-25T17:06:06

Out of Order is excited to present part two of our first collaborative episode series, Reporting Across the Pond, produced in coordination with Listen

Reporting Across the Pond Pt. 1 from 2020-03-19T17:00:24

Out of Order is excited to present our first collaborative episode series, Reporting Across the Pond, produced in coordination with Listen

Westful Thinking from 2020-02-21T15:03:34

When the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR crumbled, an era of excessive optimism set in. It was a period where it seemed like liberal democracies would lead a straight march to global peace. Three ...

Mediterranean Cities on the Frontlines of Migration from 2019-12-23T20:51:37

More people today have been forcibly displaced from their homes than at any time since World War ll. According to the UN, a record 70 million people around the world are living as refugees or ar...

Kremlin Confidential from 2019-11-16T02:33:13

In the information wars, controlling the narrative is key. From Hong Kong to 5G to US politics, the Russian government has made no illusions about its willingness to bend reality to get what it ...

The Situation in Syria: Dispatches from Ankara and Washington from 2019-10-18T21:31:48

Since President Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, realities on the ground have moved at breakneck speed. To make sense of it all,  Out of Order caught up with GMF experts i...

Democracy Works presents: China’s Threat to Democracies Around the World from 2019-09-25T09:30

We're interrupting the Out of Order stream this week to share a new episode of the "Democracy Works" podcast -- a project of Penn State's McCourtney Institute for Democracy and WPSU. In this epi...

Breaking the National Security Council from 2019-09-13T20:35:51

John Bolton, President Trump’s 3rd National Security Adviser, has made his exit. With change afoot (or maybe not) two of the most well-positioned voices on all things NSC—John Gans and Derek Cho...

Has the Transatlantic Relationship Been Irreparably Damaged? from 2019-07-18T18:00

Has the Transatlantic Relationship Been Irreparably Damaged? At the most recent Brussels Forum, GMF partnered with Intelligence Squared U.S., for a Listen

From Paris to Warsaw, How Europe is Answering to"America First" from 2019-05-30T20:18:49

The Trump administration’s hard-nosed approach to the European Union has left leaders across the Atlantic questioning where the relationship with the U.S. is headed. According to GMF’s president...

Europe’s Make or Break Election? from 2019-05-22T17:59:29

On May 23-26 citizens in all (still) 28 EU countries will go to the polls and select the 751 members of the European Parliament. The Parliament is the only directly elected EU institution and th...

Two Presidential Candidates Walk Into a Bar from 2019-04-19T18:00

More than five years after the Euromaidan, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is battling for his political life against Volodymyr Zelensky – a comedian and political newcomer who has emerged ...

Silent Revolution: The Transatlantic Policy Debate Over AI from 2019-03-15T21:25:24

From AI to 5G, the innovations that pose unprecedented opportunities also pose a risk to democracy—and there is no consensus yet on how to solve this puzzle. This week on Out of Order, Karen Kor...

What to Watch in 2019, Part Two from 2019-02-22T22:00:43

In the concluding episode of the two-part “What to Watch” feature, the Out of Order roundtable discusses another raft of issues that they’ll be tracking this year, now that we have made it throu...

What to Watch in 2019, Part One from 2018-12-21T16:45:24

It’s time to say “Goodbye, Au Revoir, and Auf Wiedersehen” to 2018. It was another significant year for the transatlantic relationship: Brexit chaos and the U.S. midterms, fake news and a Facebo...

Thanksgiving Special: The Berlin Thanksgiving Episode from 2018-11-23T19:28:39

While everyone in DC is off for the holiday, Rachel Tausendfreund is joined by two colleagues in Berlin to discuss some recent events in global politics that we can appreciate, or in th...

Trading Jabs: What's Next for Trump's Trade Battles with China and Europe? from 2018-10-26T15:12:51

Trade is back in the spotlight, and the U.S. is at the center of a building international showdown. A combative economic agenda is now being realized as the Trump administration disrupts trade r...

The State of European (dis)Union Pt 1: Central and Eastern Europe from 2018-10-11T15:13:28

It’s back! The Out of Order podcast returns to the airwaves. Thirty years after the fall of the wall, the reemergence of authoritarianism and illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe is as pre...

Europe and United States fight over Iran, is the United States sanctioning itself in the foot? from 2018-07-19T17:40:47

In Episode IX of Out of Order Rachel Tausendfreund talks with GMF fellows Douglas Hengel, Joshua Kirschenbaum, and Andrew Small about transatlantic fights with Iran and the future of sanctions T...

North Korea, the U.S. and a Bunch of Nervous Allies from 2018-06-19T15:09:23

President Trump’s overtures to North Korea represent perhaps the most significant foreign policy development so far during his administration. In addition to marking a departure in how authorita...

Do we really need common values? On NATO and Turkey from 2018-05-24T19:30:02

We are back! After an extended spring break, the Out of Order crew is back in the studio to bring you informative and relevant speakers and ideas, exploring how the world was, is and will be ord...

Live From GMF's Young Professionals Summit: What is the Liberal International Order Anyway? from 2018-03-14T10:16:10

Over the last years, policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic have become increasingly concerned that the Liberal International Order is in danger. At first, threats to this Western-led order...

“Military Might…? Hard Security’s Role in a Soft Power World” from 2018-02-28T10:46:36

So far, the Out-of-Order Podcast has focused on specific countries and the role they play in trying to stabilize, uphold, change, or transform the current international order. In the fifth episo...

Unleashed or Unhinged? One Year of U.S. Global Leadership Under President Trump from 2018-02-12T23:05:40

In the fourth episode of Out of Order, having discussed the roles of Germany, China, and whether other international actors can fill the void left in the international system, this episode focus...

All Things China from 2018-01-11T15:24:51

In the second episode of Out of Order, GMF Fellows Amy Studdart, Andrew Small, and Peter Sparding take a look at China and its approach to the liberal international order. First, they discuss th...

What's German for Blob? from 2017-12-18T16:40:51

In the pilot episode of Out of Order, GMF Fellows Rachel Tausendfreund, Amy Studdart, Hans Kundani, and Peter Sparding take a look at the political situation in Germany. Following the Brexit ref...