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Dec 2023
14m 29s

The world Henry Kissinger built

Al Jazeera
About this episode

Henry Kissinger was a giant of our world order for half a century. The former US secretary of state died at the age of 100 on Wednesday. He left a mark on every region – often not for the better of those left in the wake of his controversial policies. We look at the legacy that many fear could be forgotten.

In this episode: 

  • Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman), Journalist and Author
  • Sophal Ear (@sophal_ear), Associate Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management 

Episode credits:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters, Miranda Lin, Negin Owliaei and our host Malika Bilal. Fahrinisa Campana and David Enders fact-checked this episode.

Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.

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