On Shifting Ground World Affairs

Can a single gathering of world leaders really pull billions of people out of poverty? Eric Pelofsky, Deputy Chief of Staff and Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation, joined Ray Suarez days before the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris to share how international financial institutions can make up for past mistakes.
 
Guest:
 
Eric Pelofsky, Deputy Chief of Staff and Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation
 
Host:
 
Ray Suarez
 
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Conspiracy communities that once promoted QAnon and anti-vaccine theories have now sunk their teeth into an even tastier morsel: our food supply chain. Laicie Heeley, Executive Producer and Host of “Things That Go Boom,” joins Ray Suarez to break down how cracks in our food system have paved the way for international conspiracy theories about the ongoing food crisis. 
 
Guest:
 
Laicie Heeley, Executive Producer and Host of “Things That Go Boom”
 
Host:  
 
Ray Suarez
 
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Concerns about a 'global elite' exerting control over demographic shifts and our food choices have hit the mainstream, and they are feeding anxieties. Ray Suarez speaks with French legal scholar Rim-Sarah Alouane about the "great replacement theory", and what it takes to be considered “French first.”
 
Guest:
 
Ridha Khadher, baker and owner of Au Paradis du gourmand
 
Rim-Sarah Alouane, French legal scholar
 
Host:
 
Ray Suarez
 
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The 1998-1999 war in Kosovo may have ended the fighting between Serbs and Albanian Kosovars, but it didn’t end the conflict. Anatol Lieven, journalist and Eurasian Program Director at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, joins Ray Suarez to explain why ethnic tensions are once again flaring up in the Balkans.
 
Guest:
 
Anatol Lieven, journalist and Eurasian Program Director at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
 
Host:
 
Ray Suarez
 
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President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s all-powerful leader of 20 years, was recently re-elected, raising serious questions about the state of Turkey’s democracy. Is Erdoğan trying to rebuild the Ottoman Empire? And is his republic Russia’s Trojan Horse in NATO? Ray Suarez speaks with Merve Tahiroğlu, Turkey Program Director at the Project on Middle East Democracy about Erdoğan’s imperial ambitions.
 
Guest:
 
Merve Tahiroğlu, Turkey Program Director at the Project on Middle East Democracy
 
Host:
 
Ray Suarez
 
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For decades, Georgia has tried to extricate itself from Russia's shadow. But with the recent influx of Ukrainian refugees and anti-war Russians and the rise of Georgia’s Dream Party, the former Soviet state is once again walking a political tightrope between Russia and a tenuous future with NATO. In this episode, reporter Levi Bridges takes us on the ground to hear about the dangers of standing up to Russia.
 
Reporter:
 
Levi Bridges, journalist 
 
Featured guests:
 
Daniil Chubar, co-founder of Emigration for Action 
 
Monika Jaranowska, Director of Kids Club "Happy Me" Tbilisi
 
Giga Bokeria, leader of the European Georgia party
 
Sonja Schiffers, Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Tbilisi Office
 
Giorgi Khelashvili, Georgian Dream MP and Deputy Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Parliament of Georgia
 
Host:  
 
Ray Suarez
 
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