Living in an à la carte world: What European policymakers should learn from global public opinion

ECFR’s new global opinion poll reveals that many people outside the West want Europe and the US in their lives for all they have to offer – but that does not translate into full political alignment.

In this week’s episode, ECFR’s research director Jeremy Shapiro welcomes council member Timothy Garton Ash, who is a bestselling author and professor of European studies at Oxford University; Ivan Krastev, who is a founding board member of ECFR and chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia; and ECFR’s director Mark Leonard to discuss how public sentiment can guide Europe in building partnerships for the world of tomorrow. What is the basis for the West’s soft power? What sort of offer is China making the world? And whom do countries in the ‘global south’ prefer when faced with a choice between the West and China?

This podcast was recorded on 7 November 2023.

Bookshelf:

Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said | Timothy Brennan

Environmental Political Theory | Steve Vanderheiden

Les Aveuglés, comment Berlin et Paris ont laissé la voie libre à la Russie | Sylvie Kauffmann

Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times | Samuel Moyn

You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State | David Bernhardt