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World Review: Global Reaction to US Capitol Insurrection

Susan Glasser, James Harding, Stefan Kornelius, and Ivo Daalder discuss the impact of an armed insurrection at the US Capitol.
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About this Episode

This week on "World Review" the New Yorker's Susan Glasser, Tortoise Media's James Harding, SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung's Stefan Kornelius, and Council President Ivo Daalder examine how the armed insurrection at the US Capitol affects democracy worldwide and what the United States should do next.

About the Panelists
Staff Writer and Columnist, New Yorker
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Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and was a founding editor of POLITICO Magazine, where she also served as POLITICO's chief international affairs columnist and host of the podcast "The Global Politico." She's also a global affairs analyst for CNN.
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Editor and Cofounder, Tortoise Media
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Before James Harding was at Tortoise Media, he was the director of news and current affairs at the BBC.
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Political Editor, SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung
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Stefan Kornelius has spent over 20 years at Süddeutsche Zeitung. Throughout his career, he has covered Germany's Christian Democratic Party, the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl, and defense issues in Europe. His biography of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, entitled “Angela Merkel, the Chancellor and her World,” has been translated into 13 languages.
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CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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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.
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