BerlinsideOut, the podcast that takes an expert look at international politics from Berlin – goes to Tallinn! From the International ‘Lennart Meri Conference’ Dr. Benjamin Tallis, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Action Group Zeitenwende at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), and Aaron Gasch Burnett, a security analyst and journalist specialising in German politics, host this special live episode, which they dub - TallinnsideOut!

In front of a special live audience in Tallinn, Ben and Aaron talk to world-renowned historian Timothy Snyder, Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna, Portuguese Secretary of State for Defence Ana Isabel Xavier, and Eliot Cohen, one of the top strategic experts in the world. During the main discussion and in audience Q&A, hosts and panelists chat how to break the cycle of pessimism to dedicate the democratic world to Ukraine’s victory through concrete action, what history can teach us about how to defeat Russia, and how to pursue our values and interests simultaneously.

Guests:

• Timothy Snyder, Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University (@TimothyDSnyder)


• Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Estonia (@Tsahkna)


• Eliot A. Cohen, Arleigh Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (@EliotACohen)


• Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State, Ministry of National Defence, Portugal (LinkedIn)

Resources:

• On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder


• Putin, Trump, Ukraine: How Timothy Snyder became the leading interpreter of our dark times, The Guardian


• 2023 has shown us the misery big-power politics creates. Here’s how we can do things differently, Margus Tsahkna, The Guardian


• The war is not going well for Ukraine, Eliot A Cohen, The Atlantic


• It’s not enough for Ukraine to win, Russia has to lose, Eliot A Cohen, The Atlantic


• Seizing Russian Assets to fund Ukraine’s Victory, Aaron Gasch Burnett, Macdonald-Laurier Institute Inside Policy


• American Aid Alone Won’t Save Ukraine, Jack Watling, Foreign Affairs


• The Rise of the New Idealists, Benjamin Tallis, Byline Supplement


• Who’s Afraid of (Ukrainian) victory, Benjamin Tallis & Julian Stöckle, IPQ


• Liberalism and its Discontents, Francis Fukuyama

Follow the Lennart Meri Conference, organised by ICDS Tallinn (@ICDS_Tallinn) here and on X/Twitter using the hashtag #LennartMeriConference.

This podcast is an original production of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). It was created as part of DGAP's Action Group Zeitenwende.

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