During the last two decades the world has suffered two global financial crises, one stemming from the financial sector (2008) and the other one from a health crisis (covid-19). This has resulted in creative new ways of how to conduct monetary policy, continuously shifting further from conventional methods. In this
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▶︎ Feeding the 5000: A Look Into the Farmers Protests and Food Insecurity
In collaboration with The Perspective Webzine and Magazine, the Pod&Radio are proud to add the third piece of the puzzle of the article series regarding the farmers protests in India. In this episode, we provide a short summary of the articles previously published and go further into the potential for
▶︎ Hitting the Wrong Note: The Politics of Music
Is censorship an obstacle to artists’ freedom of self-expression? Spanish rapper, Pablo Hasél, was recently sentenced to nine months for insulting the crown and glorifying terrorism through the content of his songs. His case made us reflect on how music can be used as a political tool and how governments
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▶︎ All About Human Rights – Human Security
All about Human rights is a new series on this podcast that sets out to discuss the broad topic that is human rights! In this episode, we talk about human security, an all encompassing right that deals with a variety of issues and topics. We look at the vaccine development
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▶︎ Talking Greenish S2E3 – China, a New Climate Champion?
Talking Greenish is the podcast series discussing all things climate change. In Episode three, we discuss the announcement from September 2020 where Xi Jinping declared that China will be carbon neutral by 2060 and peak in carbon output by 2030. We therefore go into China’s current policies regarding climate as
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▶︎ All About Human Rights – Freedom of Speech
All about Human rights is a new series on this podcast that sets out to discuss the broad topic that is human rights! In this first episode, we talk about the importance of one of the most fundamental and vital rights, namely freedom of speech. We look at the distinction
▶︎ Olympic Diplomacy
Where did the worlds largest sporting competition start and what has it become? Can sports and politics really be separated in todays global climate? And what does the futurre of the olympics really look like? These questions and our thoughts and opinions on the matter are presented and discussed in
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▶︎ Live Show 3/2/21: Recounting 2020
No one missed that the least years were quite a special year but you might have missed some special things that happened in 2020. The Association of Foreign Affairs brings you a recounting of 2020 ‘a la Pod&Radio style. Enjoy this edited version of our previous live-show where we talk
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▶︎ Talking Greenish: S2E2 – Islands at Risk with Komal Narayan
Talking Greenish is the podcast dealing with all things climate change related. For this episode we follow up on our previous episode, on the importance of the oceans, by speaking with Fiji climate activist Komal Narayan. We got to hear about how very real the effects of climate change already
▶︎ The Istanbul Convention: A Feminist View
In this week’s episode we interviewed Kristina Lunz, co-Founder and co-Executive Director of the Center for Feminist Foreign Policy, who gave us her perspective on the Istanbul Convention and on the pushback that Europe has experienced in the last years. This pushback has been threatening to the security and well-being