The 1A Show / Interview with Moisés Naím, Courtney Kube & Yochi Dreazen
The U.S. slaps sanctions on Venezuela officials as opposition leaders organize another strike against the government. Speaking of U.S. sanctions, new ones have been imposed on Russia. Plus, tensions ease in a standoff over one the world’s holiest sites and the latest on Qatar’s PR offensive to counter a regional feud.
A panel of journalists joins Joshua Johnson for analysis of the week’s top international news stories.
Read moreThe 1A Show / Interview with Moisés Naím, Courtney Kube, Steven Goff & Yochi Dreazen
North Korea releases an imprisoned American college student and sends him home – in a coma. Thousands turn out in cities across Russia to protest Putin’s rule. And President Trump gives Defense Secretary Mattis the authority to send more troops to Afghanistan. A panel of journalists joins Joshua Johnson for analysis of the week’s top international news stories.
Read moreAmericas Quaterly / Rachelle Krygier
Economist and TV host Moisés Naím on his new show, the dangers of "anti-politics," and separating fact from fiction in Venezuela.
Read moreFinancial Times / Andres Schipani
‘El Comandante’ aired across Latin America but blocked in late leader’s own country
Read moreDaily Sabah / 01.29.2017
The Venezuelan revolution will now be televised. The life of Hugo Chavez, who mesmerized Venezuela's impoverished masses before dying of cancer in 2013, is being dramatized in a Spanish-language TV series that is generating a backlash even before it airs.
Read moreHub Culture Davos / 01.20.2017
Moisés Naím speaks to Edie Lush about cyber war and a cyber Pearl Harbor
Read moreOpinions at GDI / Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute / 1.19.2017
Reports of an imminent demise of democracy are wildly exaggerated, assures Moisés Naím, Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Recent attempted transitions to democracy in the Arab world, Asia, Africa, and elsewhere have met severe headwinds. Can today’s leaders draw on lessons from successful experiences of democratization in previous decades to overcome transitional traps and other failures of democracy? Drawing on a new book edited by Sergio Bitar and Abraham Lowenthal, Democratic Transitions: Conversations with World Leaders (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), this symposium probed the findings of a set of in-depth interviews with leaders of successful democratic transitions. Special focus was given to two current cases of pressing importance: Myanmar and Venezuela.
Read moreThe Agenda with Steve Paikin / YouTube
In 'The End of Power,' leading writer and thinker Moises Naim is basically saying, "Power ain't what it used to be." According to Naim, power nowadays is harder to exercise, more difficult to keep and there is much more competition for it. He discusses his ideas with Steve Paikin.
Read moreMoisés Naím / World Economic Affairs
Latin America’s 34 nations are facing the end of three important supercycles that have helped drive economic growth and the alleviation of poverty, according to Moisés Naím, Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Madrid, 30 April 2015. Moises Naim, distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, talks to Federico Steinberg, senior analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute, on his recently-published book titled "The End of Power", a startling examination of how power is changing across all sectors of society and a detailed exposé on modern criminal networks. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing, it is also decaying. Those in power today are more constrained in what they can do with it and more at risk of losing it than ever before.
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The entangled threat of crime, corruption, and terrorism remain important security challenges in the twenty-first century. In her new book, Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime, and Terrorism, Louise Shelley argues that their continued spread can be traced to economic and demographic inequalities, the rise of ethnic and sectarian violence, climate change, the growth of technology, and the past failure of international institutions to respond to these challenges when they first emerged.
Carnegie held a discussion with Louise Shelley. Milan Vaishnev acted as discussant, and Moisés Naím moderated.
Read moreMoisés Naím / The Atlantic
Syria, Ukraine, Gaza, Iraq, ISIS, Ebola—the list of this past summer’s disasters is long. But buried among the tragic headlines and breaking news are other events that attracted less attention but could be just as consequential for global affairs. Here are five to watch.
Read moreWorld Economic Forum / YouTube
In this video, filmed at the 2014 World Economic Forum on Latin America, Moisés Naím says the region's 34 nations are facing the end of three important supercycles that have helped drive economic growth and the alleviation of poverty.
Read moreMoisés Naím / Testimony: Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Venezuela’s lack of democracy and economic failure can only be solved by Venezuelans. But in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Moisés Naím says Washington can take steps to highlight the grave situation in the country, expand targeted sanctions, and be a powerful supporter of human rights.
Read moreThe RSA / YouTube
Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Foreign Policy editor-in-chief Moisés Naím visits the RSA to outline the startling power shifts taking place across the globe, and offers insight into how individuals and leaders can adapt to this new global reality.
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Read moreAndrew Kneale / Smith School
CEOs, politicians, religious leaders and generals can do less with their power today than they could in the past. This is the central thesis of Moises Naim’s new book, The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battles and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What it Used to Be, and it was the focal point of his remarks at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on October 8, 2013.
Read moreWill Hutton / The Guardian
Power is leaching from the centre, even as the complexities of national and international challenges multiply. It is the hallmark of our times. Whether political or religious leaders, CEOs or five-star generals – all are more constrained in what they can do.
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