Worlds Apart
Sir Henry Wotton, a 17th-century English diplomat, once described diplomacy as being about surviving until the next century, and politics about surviving until Friday afternoon. With wars and crises putting humanity’s future survival in doubt,...Dec 10, 2023 07:31- Worlds Apart is a fast-paced, in-depth discussion on the most pressing issues facing the world today.It strives to depart from the traditional Q&A form of interview in favor of a more emotive and engaging conversation. Host Oksana Boyko is not afraid to ask the hard questions that others avoid, with the aim of promoting intelligent public debate.
- Respecting perspectives? John Bell, co-founder of the Conciliators GuildSir Henry Wotton, a 17th-century English diplomat, once described diplomacy as being about surviving until the next century, and politics about surviving until Friday afternoon. With wars and crises putting humanity’s future survival in doubt,...Dec 10, 2023 07:31
- Leading in balancing? Pankaj Saran, India’s former ambassador to Russia‘You’re either with us or against us’: For decades, this has been the chief principle of Western foreign policy, taken to its highest pitch at the start of fighting in Ukraine. Due to its size and influence, India was among the...Dec 3, 2023 07:38
- Fight, flight, freeze? Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History at University College CorkThe Ukraine conflict has already made military history as this century’s most intense kinetic encounter between two large regular armies, upending previously held truisms about the nature of war and peace. Is it still cheaper, or more...Nov 26, 2023 07:28
- Forever aggrieved? Yakov Rabkin, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of MontrealThe wars fought by Israel and Ukraine seem to share little in common beyond American military support. Yet, at their core, they may be driven by the same collective ethos of victimhood and entitlement rooted in the horrors of World War II. In both...Nov 19, 2023 08:14
- Resistance & persistence ? Ramzy Baroud, non-resident senior research fellow, CIGA, Istanbul Zaim UniversityIn all Abrahamic religions the proportionality of violence is a major tenet and Judaism is no exception. According to the Talmudic interpretation, the Second Temple was destroyed as a punishment for gratuitous hatred, something which seems, once...Nov 12, 2023 06:00
- Unhealthy attitudes? Ishwar Gilada, Infectious diseases expertThe Covid scare may be out of sight but it’s certainly not out of mind for many medical professionals. My guest today argues that, while in terms of pandemic preparedness, we are in a better position than ever, global...Nov 7, 2023 06:09
- Rules for fools? John Dugard, emeritus professor of international law, Leiden UniversityApart from the many security and political disagreements between Russia and the West, the two sides also differ on existential concepts such as justice and equality. Given the disagreements over the ways in which those concepts should be codified...Nov 5, 2023 06:04
- State of rage? Amal Abou Zeid, former member of the Lebanese ParliamentSuppressing an issue in the hope that it will go away by itself is a common strategy for dealing with challenging and unpleasant realities. Sometimes, it works, but clearly not in the case of Israel and Palestine. The decades-long procrastination in...Oct 31, 2023 07:57
- Trick & mistreat? Dmitry Suslov, deputy director, Centre for Comprehensive European & International Studies, HSE MoscowUntil a few weeks ago, the Ukraine conflict was treated in Western media as a major threat to the rules-based order that will likely to decide the outcome of the battle between the forces of democratic good and autocratic evil. But the explosion of...Oct 29, 2023 05:56
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