World Review: US Middle East Policy, Myanmar Protests, Big Tech
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World Review with Ivo Daalder
Nirmal Ghosh, Gideon Rachman, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode
On this week’s episode of World Review, Council President Ivo Daalder talks with the Straits Times’ Nirmal Ghosh, the Financial Times' Gideon Rachman, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Carla Anne Robbins on Biden’s Middle East policy, what Australia's battle with Facebook tells us about big tech and democracy, and the escalating response to the Myanmar protests.
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About the Panelists
US Bureau Chief, The Straits Times
Nirmal Ghosh is the US Bureau Chief for The Straits Times. His reporting covers politics, elections, conflict and coups d’etat, natural disasters, and social and environmental issues across a dozen Asian countries.
Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
Gideon Rachman is the Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator at the Financial Times. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington, and Bangkok.
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Before joining CFR, Carla Anne Robbins was the deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times and chief diplomatic correspondent of the Wall Street Journal. She is also faculty director of the MIA program at Baruch College's Marxe School.
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.