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The world is changing, and its future is forming around high-stakes challenges such as climate change and shifting geopolitical power. In this limited series, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass sits down with nine extraordinary thinkers to explore fundamental questions about the century to come.

Nine Questions for the World CFR

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The world is changing, and its future is forming around high-stakes challenges such as climate change and shifting geopolitical power. In this limited series, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass sits down with nine extraordinary thinkers to explore fundamental questions about the century to come.

    Does World Order Have a Future?

    Does World Order Have a Future?

    CNN Host Fareed Zakaria and Richard Haass examine the concept of “world order” and what to do to promote it in an age of revived great-power rivalry and global challenges.
     
    Episode Guest: 
    Fareed Zakaria (Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN). 
     
    This episode is based on a live event that took place on November 16, 2021.
     
    For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/does-world-order-have-a-future.

    • 38 min
    Can Societies Keep Up With Technology?

    Can Societies Keep Up With Technology?

    Richard Haass and Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li discuss how to contend with technologies that can do both good and harm.
     
    Episode Guest: 
    Fei-Fei Li (Codirector, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence; Sequoia Professor, Stanford University).
     
    This episode is based on a live event that took place on November 1, 2021.
     
    For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/can-societies-keep-up-with-technology.

    • 36 min
    Will This Century Belong to China?

    Will This Century Belong to China?

    By all accounts, China is sure to have an outsize impact on the world over the next one hundred years. Richard Haass and Elizabeth Perry, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, consider China’s rise and the implications for global order.
     
    Episode Guest:
    Elizabeth J. Perry (Director, Harvard Yenching Institute).
     
    This episode is based on a live event that took place on October 6, 2021.
     
    For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/will-this-century-belong-to-china.

    • 32 min
    Can Biotech Be Harnessed?

    Can Biotech Be Harnessed?

    Richard Haass and Michelle McMurry-Heath, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Institute, discuss the future of biotechnology and its potential impact on food production, climate change, energy production, and medicine.
     
    Episode Guest: 
    Michelle McMurry-Heath (President and CEO, Biotechnology Innovation Organization).
     
    This episode is based on a live event that took place on September 29, 2021.
     
    For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/can-biotech-be-harnessed.

    • 36 min
    Is Population Change a Problem?

    Is Population Change a Problem?

    Birth rates are booming in some countries and plummeting in others. Leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard Haass analyze the most important trends and their consequences.
     
    Episode Guest: 
    Nicholas Eberstadt (Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute).
     
    This episode is based on a live event that took place on September 14, 2021.
     
    For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/is-population-change-a-problem.

    • 37 min
    Does the Twenty-First Century Need a New Social Contract?

    Does the Twenty-First Century Need a New Social Contract?

    Richard Haass and Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics, assess the future of the labor market and examine how to provide workers with the skills and training they need in an era of ongoing technological change.
     
    Episode Guest: 
    Minouche Shafik (Director, London School of Economics and Political Science).
     
    This episode is based on a live event that took place on July 15, 2021.
     
    For an episode transcript and show notes, visit us at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/does-the-twenty-first-century-need-a-new-social-contract.

    • 35 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
30 Ratings

30 Ratings

reroford ,

Terrific Listening

The big questions addressed in this series are thought-provoking and complex. Mr. Haass and his distinguished guests break some of them down in reasoned and rational ways which are refreshing in these days of knee jerk assumptions. Thank you.

IanBeijing ,

Big questions for the next 100 years

Richard Haass talks to some of the world’s most influential thinkers about everything from the rise of China to climate change.

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