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Dec 2021
25m 41s

The underside of globalisation

Financial Times
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https://www.ft.com/content/ce91ffd7-0549-4187-8dda-61b20548d2c8


Gideon talks to Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, about the ways in which global powers try to exert influence over others in an interconnected world. Mark Leonard is author of The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict.

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