Delphi Talks
The official podcast of Delphi Economic Forum is out! A selection of keynote speeches and panel discussions taking place literally in the navel of the world. Every year speakers and attendees from business, finance, politics and academia share their insights and expertise through a series of public events and private discussions, in an attempt to help shape and redefine policy-making for international issues of common interest.
Episodes
22 episodes
The ruthless charm of gaslighting in politics and history
Is there “gaslighting” in politics? What are the rules for creating a counter-narrative to reality to serve a political agenda? Is there a way for humanity to defend against a world of deep-fakes and and post-truth?Recorded at the Delph...
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Europe Between Sleepwalking and Alertness
Can Europe provide solutions to the West’s existential crisis? Is the continent sleepwalking into a further diminished international role and geopolitical irrelevance? Can a “Kantian” Europe still thrive vs a “Hobbesian” rest of the world?<...
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How to Secure Further EU Unity Against the Russian Threat
Radoslaw SikorskiAt the Delphi Economic Forum in April 2024, Poland’s outspoken Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski sat down with British journalist Nick Gowing to discuss Europe’s - and the West’s - response to the Russian invasi...
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The Gaza War and the Future of the Middle East Security Architecture
How do we get back to the pre October 7th rapprochement of different actors in the region? How was the security architecture shaping up before Hamas’s attack on Israel? What is the role of leadership and how the regional and global securi...
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EU Εnlargement and the new geopolitical landscape
A reflective conversation between leading public intellectual Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and ELIAMEP’s Loukas Tsoukalis, on the prospects of future EU enlargements, in both the Western Balkans and Ukrai...
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29:19
Between empire and anarchy from the Mediterranean to China
Recorded at the Delphi Economic Forum in April 2024, best selling author and globally prominent geopolitical analyst Robert Kaplan delivers a tour de force on the prospects and aspirations of the wider Middle East, in conversation with Reuters’...
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In conversation - David H. Petraeus with Athanassios Ellis
Drawing from a wealth of experience as a 4 star US Army General and Director of the CIA, David H. Petraeus delivers an insightful overview of the state of play of different conflict regions of the world, in conversation with Kathimerini’s Athan...
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Liberal Democracy and the rule of law as a foreign policy tool
One of the world’s most read authors and historians, Anne Applebaum spoke in the Delphi Economic Forum last April with Ta Nea’s Michalis Mitsos, on a critical question of our time: Why do people who live in democracies find authoritarianism app...
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In conversation - Philipp Hildebrand with Peter Spiegel
In a sobering conversation with the Financial Times’ Peter Spiegel, Phillip Hildebrand, vice chairman of BlackRock offers his expert outlook on the causes and possible longevity of the current global inflation crisis.Recorded at the Del...
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From Displacement to Secretary General: Fighting Poverty & Injustice
Arthur Larok highlights refugee challenges, poverty, and empowerment for a just futureRecorded at the Delphi Economic Forum in April 2024, Larok, drawing from his own experience as a refugee, shares his insights and experiences on the c...
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China’s Role and Cooperation in a Multiple World
Dr. Wang discusses China's rising global role and geopolitical impacts.Recorded at the Delphi Economic Forum in April 2024, Wang gives a powerful overview of China’s rising role in the global economy, and shares his insights on how this...
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America and our Imperiled World
Robert Kagan discusses threats to US-led post-WWII world order.Recorded at the recent Delphi Economic Forum, Kagan talks about his book “Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World”, making the claim that the post-WWII world orde...
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34:35
Gathering Storm: Cold War II or World War III?
Niall Ferguson on Greece's geopolitical navigation and potential new Cold War.Recorded at the recent Delphi Economic Forum, globally renowned historical and public intellectual Niall Ferguson on how Greece can navigate the grave geopoli...
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19:34
Building Up Resiliently: Shaping a Solid Future of Ukraine
The 8th edition of our Annual Conference took place in the town of Delphi on April 26-29, 2023Carl Bildt, Prime Minister of Sweden (1991-1994)Chair: Tom Nuttall, Senior Digital Editor, The Economist, UK
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24:33
Space: The Final Frontier
The 8th edition of our Annual Conference took place in the town of Delphi on April 26-29, 2023Rick Tumlinson, Founding Partner; Founder, SpaceFund; EarthLight Foundation, USAChair: Alexandra Gouta, Journalist, Athens News Agency...
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19:53
Will Europe Emerge Stronger After Ukraine?
The 8th edition of our Annual Conference took place in the town of Delphi on April 26-29, 2023Alexander Stubb, PM of Finland (2014-2015); Director, School of Transnational Governance, EUI, ItalyChair: Fred Pleitgen, Journalist, ...
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23:40
Can Quantum Computing Change the World?
This Session took part during the Delphi Economic Forum VIII, in the town of Delphi on April 26-29, 2023Joseph S. Broz, Ph.D., Vice President, Quantum Growth and Markets, IBM QuantumBenno Broer, CCO, PASQAL Chair:...
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Which are the Challenges Ahead of the Greek and Global Banking System
This Session took part during the Delphi Economic Forum VIII, in the town of Delphi on April 26-29, 2023Speakers:Fokion Karavias, CEO, Eurobank, GreecePavlos Mylonas, CEO, National Bank of GreeceChair: Peter Spiege...
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27:11
Cyber-security in the age of accelerated digital transformation
Delphi Economic Forum Digital - June 9-12, 2020In Conversation:Sir Rob Wainright, Senior Partner, Deloitte& Christos Danezis, General Manager Sigmalive, Cyprus
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Keep Calm and Carry on: Professor George Dertilis presents Catastrophe Theories and Direful Statistics [GR]
Were Kozloduy nuclear power plant and Greek earthquakes ever a reason to panic? Just how much did Chernobyl affect people’s holidays? After the bee disappears, will we all die or just be short of honey? Is according to Trump and the Germans a W...
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From the Pnyx to the Internet. Timothy Garton Ash on the crisis of free speech and democracy
It’s all there in the Greeks. Demosthenes talked about the truth spoken in all freedom and Aristotle of the wisdom of the crowd. Yet today, in the era of the smartphone, echo chamber effects and filter bubbles seem to gain ground towards polari...
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Robert D. Kaplan and Alexis Papahelas talk Geopolitics
Which is the way the world is going? How exactly is China rising? Does Europe end in the Mediterranean, or the Sahara? Will the Balkans ever escape history and geography? Everything you always wanted to know about Eurasia but were afraid to ask...
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