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The online podcast channel of Legatum Institute Foundation.
Episódios
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The Rise of American English with David Skinner - Legatum Institute
13/01/2013As part of the Legatum Institute's Salon Series, author and editor of 'Humanities' magazine, David Skinner, discussed his book 'The Story of Ain't', which looks at the spread of American English in cultural history.
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Is National Identity Best Served by the Nation State? Michael Goldfarb - Legatum Institute
30/11/2012Has the nation state, a political unit with internationally recognised boundaries, had its day? Does it matter if it disappears? A discussion with author, journalist and broadcaster Michael Goldfarb as part of the Legatum Institute's Salon Series.
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Discussion with Carl Gershman at the Legatum Institute
29/11/2012Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), visited the Legatum Institute (LI) to discuss current democracy challenges with a group of invited attendees.
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Preparing for a Syrian Transition - Legatum Institute Panel (Ashraf Ghani & Clare Lockhart)
29/11/2012The Legatum Institute hosted a live webcast and panel discussion with Dr Ashraf Ghani, former finance minister of Afghanistan and Clare Lockhart, who worked with him on the 2001 Bonn Agreement and later on the Afghan transition. The panel discussed their new paper on Syria - Preparing for a Syrian Transition - which sought lessons from the global experience of transition in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. The discussion was moderated by the Legatum Institute's Director of Political Studies, Anne Applebaum
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B.H. Fraser - Poetic Enterprise and the Flourishing Society (Legatum Institute)
01/11/2012B.H. Fraser reads "Observation" which reflects of the build-up to the financial crisis. The reading took place as part of the Legatum Institute's 'Salon Series'.
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Grey Gowrie - Poetic Enterprise and the Flourishing Society (Legatum Institute)
01/11/2012Grey Gowrie discusses the parallels between poetry and music, in his poetic tribute to Billie Holliday, "Lady Day" as part of the Legatum Institute's 'Salon Series'
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Anne Applebaum - BBC Broadcasting House
14/10/2012LI's Director of Political Studies participates in Radio 4's Broadcasting House review of the Sunday papers, discussing Obama, Syria, education and the EU.
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Rethinking the Good - Larry Temkin - Legatum Institute
11/10/2012In a conversation at the Legatum Institute, Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy Larry Temkin discusses his original and unsettling works of sceptical philosophy that mounts an important new challenge to contemporary ethics.
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Anne Applebaum - Andrew Marr BBC Start the Week
01/10/2012LI's Anne Applebaum discusses internationalism from a post-1945 Eastern European perspective (BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew Marr)
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Anne Applebaum - Radio 4
25/09/2012A new survey published in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily showed that 63 per cent of Germans were more concerned about inflation than any other national issue or threat. In a discussion with Radio 4's Today programme, LI's Anne Applebaum shares her views on what causes such preoccupations and psychoses among citizens.
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Gurcharan Das - India Grows at Night
19/09/2012Leading Indian writer, commentator, and former CEO of Procter & Gamble in India Gurcharan Das introduces his new book at the Legatum Institute.
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Christian Caryl Interview - US Embassy Attack in Libya
12/09/2012Democracy Lab editor, Christian Caryl, discusses the 11 September US embassy attack in Benghazi and protests in Cairo over a US-made film that mocks the Prophet Mohammed. The interview was broadcast on Southern California Public Radio.
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Greg Barker MP discussion at Legatum Institute
11/09/2012Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, Greg Barker, discusses the possible future evolution of environmental policies in an age of economic austerity. The conversation took place as part of the Legatum Institute's 'Salon Series', a host of lectures which promote a discourse between cultural, philosophical, economic and political modes of enquiry.
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Gus ODonnell - Legatum Institute
01/09/2012Gus O'Donell, former UK Cabinet Secretary and Chair of LI's new 'Commission on Wellbeing Policy' appeared on BBC Radio 3's Night Waves programme to discuss the value of happiness as a measure of our quality of life, and overall prosperity.
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Anne Applebaum on Libya today and advice for Syria
21/08/2012LI's Director of Political Studies, Anne Applebaum, joined a discussion to mark the one year anniversary of the liberation of Libya (BBC Radio 4, World at One, 21 August 2012)