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Oct 2024
59m 58s

Geopolitics, Power, and Solutions — with...

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Rory Stewart, the former UK Secretary of State for International Development and cohost of the popular podcast, The Rest is Politics, joins Scott to discuss geopolitics, the state of politics in the US and the UK, and his recent TEDTalk where he advocates for a radical way to address extreme poverty worldwide. Follow Rory, @RoryStewartUK. Scott opens with ... Show More
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