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The World Next Week previews upcoming world events. In each episode, Robert McMahon, CFR’s managing editor of digital content, and Carla Anne Robbins, CFR senior fellow and faculty director of the Master of International Affairs program at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, discuss what’s making headlines and lay out newsworthy international developments. Both award-winning journalists, McMahon has covered foreign affairs since 1990 for the Associated Press, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and CFR.org, and Robbins was deputy editorial page editor at the New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.
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Thursday Dec 16, 2021
Thursday Dec 16, 2021
In this special year-end episode of The World Next Week, James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon are joined by Shannon K. O’Neil, CFR vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies. They discuss this year’s historic elections and the state of democracy in Latin America and beyond, the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world, and U.S. President Joe Biden’s first year in office.
Articles Mentioned on the Podcast
Lauren Sloss, “The Documents You Need to Travel Abroad Now,” New York Times, December 10, 2021
Christopher Troeger and Thomas J. Bollyky, “Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic Hinges on Trust,” Think Global Health, November 30, 2021
Podcasts Mentioned
Richard Haass, Nine Questions for the World, Council on Foreign Relations
Anne Appelbaum and Richard Haass, “Can Democracy Survive?,” Nine Questions for the World, December 16, 2021
Michelle McMurry-Heath and Richard Haass, “Can Biotech Be Harnessed?,” Nine Questions for the World, December 16, 2021
Fareed Zakaria and Richard Haass, “Does World Order Have a Future?,” Nine Questions for the World, December 16, 2021