Global Power Shifts

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Global Power Shifts is about the new multipolar world — and the rise of the rest. Journalists Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour (CNN, BBC, NBC, Fox News, Reuters) speak with the people who set policy, not just comment on it. Previous guests include sitting and former ministers, ambassadors, and security chiefs offering unvarnished views on energy, sanctions, tech sovereignty, maritime chokepoints, information ops, and statecraft. It’s decoding a changing world — how power is moving beyond a single center, and what that means for governments, markets, and daily life.

  1. Jul 16

    India Is Rising, But Is Its Democracy Quietly Dying?

    India is the world's most populous country and a rising power courted by Washington, Moscow, Brussels and the Gulf at once. It is also, in the words of this week's guest, a democracy dying "slowly, quietly." No tanks on the road, no takeover of the TV station. A silent coup. Josy Joseph has spent thirty years reporting on India's security establishment and its corruption. He is the founder of Confluence Media, co-producer of Black Warrant, the hit Netflix crime series set in Delhi's Tihar prison. His new book, Birth of a Nation, draws on newly declassified archives to tell the story almost nobody outside India knows: how 565 kings and ruling families surrendered their thrones in a matter of months in 1947, what he calls the largest handover of hereditary power in history, and how close India came to breaking apart at birth. He joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour to connect that violent founding to the India of today: why the wound of Partition never healed and still drives the standoff with Pakistan; Gandhi's final defeat, accepted in silence on the backs of five old envelopes; how an estimated four million security and intelligence personnel became political weapons; Hindu nationalism and what it means for India's 200 million Muslims; why foreign investors are pulling back from Modi's India; how Delhi reads Pakistan's new role as mediator of the Iran war; and why, despite everything, he calls this the golden era of Indian investigative journalism. Josy Joseph is the author of A Feast of Vultures, The Silent Coup (published internationally as How to Subvert a Democracy), and Birth of a Nation. 🎧 Follow Global Power Shifts▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalPowerShifts🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK4983mRNmZPfApRy🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-power-shifts/id1791326929📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalpowershifts

  2. Jun 27

    Andrew Henderson: Why the Nomad Capitalist Founder Quit America

    Andrew Henderson renounced his US citizenship in 2017. He holds six passports, owns homes on several continents, and runs Nomad Capitalist, the firm built around one line: go where you're treated best. He joins Jim Stenman with an uncomfortable argument. Countries now compete for capital and talent, American power is fading at the margins, and loyalty to where you were born is a bad trade. He explains where that takes his own money, from land in Cambodia and Paraguay to a bet on Africa, a continent he calls rich in everything except leverage. The conversation runs through exit taxes, the real cost of a second passport, Dubai after the war, the South Caucasus, and whether democracy still delivers. Listen on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Follow #GlobalPowerShifts for more.

  3. Jun 18

    Trump, the GERD, and the US-Ethiopia Balancing Act, with Cameron Hudson

    Trump put the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam back on the table at the G7, sitting next to Egypt's President Sisi and framing the dispute around Cairo, even describing his bond with Sisi as a love affair. The US-Ethiopia relationship is warming at the same time, through a Boeing jet deal, financing for Ethiopia's new international airport, and US backing for Abiy against the Tigrayans. Cameron Hudson, formerly of the CIA, NSC and State Department and now at 54 Advisors and CSIS, joins Jim Stenman to work through whether Washington can be an honest broker on the Nile, why Ethiopia will not negotiate, and how Egypt is trying to isolate Addis. They close on the wider risks across the Horn, including Eritrea, Somaliland's tilt toward Israel, and Somalia's fragmentation. 🎧 Follow Global Power Shifts▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalPowerShifts🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK4983mRNmZPfApRy🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-power-shifts/id1791326929📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalpowershifts

  4. Jun 3

    Is Kazakhstan the Quiet Winner of an Iran Deal?

    If Trump's framework with Iran lands, Tehran's enriched uranium has to go somewhere. Kazakhstan keeps coming up as the credible candidate, with an IAEA uranium bank already on its soil and nearly 40% of the world's uranium production. Around that question sits a wider shift. Kazakhstan and its Central Asian neighbours are quietly reducing their dependence on Russia, hedging between Moscow and Beijing, and pulling in Gulf and Western capital at scale. Jim Stenman sits down with Ambassador Daniel Rosenblum, former US Ambassador to Kazakhstan, on uranium, oil routes, Russian leverage and the regional repositioning the West has been slow to notice.

  5. May 28

    Andrew Lownie: Is Britain Lost? The Queen, Brexit and a Country Adrift

    Is the UK lost as a country in 2026? Historian and royal biographer Andrew Lownie joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour to take apart a Britain that has burned through six prime ministers in a decade, lost the Queen as its unbroken link to the past, and walked away from Europe with nothing put in its place. Lownie, author of Entitled, Traitor King and Stalin's Englishman, has spent his career prising open the British establishment's instinct to bury its own secrets — the cover-ups around Prince Andrew, the appointment of Peter Mandelson, the files that quietly stay closed. We start there, then widen out to the bigger question: has Britain become ungovernable, and does it need an honest new story about itself rather than empire nostalgia? We get into the collapse of the political centre and the Reform surge, why nearly 700,000 people left the UK in a single year — many of them young or wealthy, and many landing here in the Gulf — Poland's economy on track to overtake Britain's, whether the monarchy can survive as "the last unprotected institution," King Charles's soft-power masterclass in Washington, and where a self-described "very minor power" actually fits in a multipolar world. A serious conversation about national decline, identity and the architecture of British power — told through one of its sharpest observers. 🎧 Follow Global Power Shifts:▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalPowerS...🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK...🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalpower...

  6. May 19

    Cameron Hudson: The next Strait of Hormuz? Inside the scramble for the Red Sea

    Cameron Hudson has worked the Horn of Africa file from inside three branches of the U.S. government, as a CIA Africa analyst, NSC Director for African Affairs, and Chief of Staff to successive U.S. Special Envoys for Sudan. He now runs 54 Advisors, a political and investment risk firm focused on Africa, and is a non-resident senior associate at the CSIS Africa Program. He joins Jim Stenman to unpack the most consequential and least understood story in geopolitics right now: the scramble for influence over the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa. The conversation covers the Trump administration's quiet move to normalise relations with Eritrea, the collapse of the Pretoria peace agreement and the risk of a new Tigray war, the contradictions inside U.S. policy toward Ethiopia, the rivalry between the UAE and Saudi Arabia playing out across African states, Israel's recognition of Somaliland, the strategic reordering triggered by the Iran war, and the absence of any coherent American strategy for one of the most contested regions on the planet. Hudson predicted the U.S.-Eritrea reset before it broke in the Wall Street Journal in April. His Foreign Policy essay, "Washington's One-Dimensional Chess in the Horn of Africa," lays out the risks of a decision being made without a clear strategy behind it. Essential listening for anyone trying to understand where U.S. foreign policy, Gulf competition and African statecraft are converging, and where the next conflict in the region is most likely to start. Recorded May 18, 2026.

  7. May 1

    Inside the UAE's OPEC Exit | Tareq Alotaiba on the Gulf After Iran

    The UAE just left OPEC. Weeks of Iranian missiles and drones, around 2,800 strikes absorbed by the Emirates, and a quiet realisation in Abu Dhabi that the old playbook is finished. Tareq Alotaiba, a former UAE government official now at Harvard's Belfer Center and AGSIW in Washington, joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour on Global Power Shifts to break down what the OPEC exit really means, why the Emirates feels let down by parts of the Arab world, and how the war has changed the country's posture toward Iran, Israel, and Washington. In this episode: → Why the UAE leaving OPEC was inevitable, war or no war → Anwar Gargash's verdict: appeasement of Iran has failed → The disappointment in Arab neighbours, and the ones who showed up → Why Tareq believes the IRGC, not Iran, is the real enemy → The Strait of Hormuz, Fujairah, and what comes next for trade → Israel, the Abraham Accords, and the UAE's balancing act through the Gaza war → The Muslim Brotherhood, Qatari funding, and Emirati students in Europe → Why the UAE will rebuild ties with Iran but never trust it again Tareq's recent piece for AGSIW predicted the OPEC announcement four days before it broke. This conversation is the wider story behind it. 🎙 Global Power Shifts is hosted by Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour. Follow on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

  8. Apr 29

    Israel Won the War, But Is It Losing the West?

    Israel says it has weakened Hamas, pushed back Hezbollah, and left the Iranian regime more exposed than at any point in 47 years. So why does it feel like the country is losing ground everywhere else? Jonathan Conricus, the former IDF International Spokesperson and now Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, joins Suzanne Kianpour and Jim Stenman on Global Power Shifts. He makes the Israeli case directly. Iran's ring of fire is no longer what it was. Hezbollah is on the back foot. Hamas is degraded but still standing. The regime in Tehran is the weakest it has been in decades. None of the enemies, in his view, have been finished off. Suzanne and Jim push on what the case leaves out. Has Israel won the military rounds while losing a generation across the West? What does the Gulf actually think now that Iranian missiles, Houthi drones, and shipping disruption have become a regional cost rather than an Israeli one? Why are young Jews in London and New York genuinely afraid for their physical safety? And how does any of this end with Iran, where Suzanne's own family is on the receiving end of a regime under more pressure than at any point since 1979? Conricus also concedes something many Israeli officials will not say in public: reckless rhetoric from parts of the Israeli political class is making the country's job abroad much harder. The conversation moves across Gaza, Lebanon, the Gulf, Europe, the United States, and the future of the Iranian regime. Serious, sometimes uncomfortable, and aimed at an audience that wants more than headlines.

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Global Power Shifts is about the new multipolar world — and the rise of the rest. Journalists Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour (CNN, BBC, NBC, Fox News, Reuters) speak with the people who set policy, not just comment on it. Previous guests include sitting and former ministers, ambassadors, and security chiefs offering unvarnished views on energy, sanctions, tech sovereignty, maritime chokepoints, information ops, and statecraft. It’s decoding a changing world — how power is moving beyond a single center, and what that means for governments, markets, and daily life.

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  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
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