Another Year of Living Dangerously

In 2022, several colossal events dominated the headlines, most prominently the war in Ukraine and the worldwide inflation that it helped spark. But beyond Ukraine, events with global implications continued to unfold. In this episode, Why It Matters checks in with three CFR fellows and CFR President Richard Haass to understand the least-covered stories of 2022 and to take a peek at what could await the world in 2023.

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Host
  • Gabrielle Sierra
    Director, Podcasting
Credits

Asher Ross - Supervising Producer

Markus Zakaria - Audio Producer and Sound Designer

Molly McAnany - Associate Podcast Producer

Episode Guests
  • Steven A. Cook
    Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and Director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
  • Richard Haass
    President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Shannon K. O'Neil
    Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
  • Ebenezer Obadare
    Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies

Show Notes

In 2022, several major events reverberated around the world: a war in Europe, a global economic downturn, historic protests in Iran, the death of a queen. But these stories couldn’t cover everything that happened in our interconnected world. 

 

To find out what else happened this year, Gabrielle Sierra sat down with CFR President Richard Haass and three of CFR’s regional specialists to break down stories from Latin America, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa. 

 

 

From CFR

 

Manjari Chatterjee Miller, J. Andrés Gannon, Inu Manak, Ebenezer Obadare, and Christopher M. Tuttle, “Visualizing 2023: Trends to Watch

 

James M. Lindsay, “Ten Anniversaries to Note in 2023,” The Water’s Edge

 

Diana Roy, “Ten Graphics That Explain the U.S. Struggle With Migrant Flows in 2022


 

From Our Guests

 

Steven A. Cook, “How Israel and Turkey Benefit From Restoring Relations,” CFR.org

 

Ebenezer Obadare, “Escalating Violence Is Putting Nigeria’s Future on the Line,” CFR.org

 

Shannon K. O’Neil, The Globalization Myth, Yale University Press


 

Read More

 

2022 in Review Fast Facts,” CNN

 

Simon Robinson, “What Happened in 2022? The Year in Review - From Russia-Ukraine War to U.S. Midterms,” Reuters


 

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