World Review: Biden Goes to Europe, Putin's Plan C in Ukraine, and a Global Recession Looms

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Susan Glasser, Ryan Heath, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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As a global recession looms and Biden makes his way through Europe, Susan Glasser, Ryan Heath, and Philips Stephens join World Review with Ivo Daalder to cover the latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. They weigh in on what a series of high-level summits achieved, whether Putin’s war aims are changing, and the global economic fallout of the war.

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Susan Glasser
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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Ryan Heath
Co-Author of Axios AI+, Axios
Ryan Heath
Ryan is co-author of Axios AI+ — examining the ways our world is transformed by tech innovations and the people who regulate them. Ryan moderated the first presidential debate of the 2019 EU election, and between 2015 and 2023 wrote POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook, Davos Playbook and Global Insider newsletters and hosted podcasts. He is former presidential speechwriter and tech spokesperson at the European Commission.
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Philip Stephens
Contributing Editor, Financial Times
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Philip Stephens joined the Financial Times in 1983 as the economics, political, and UK edition editor, and currently serves as a contributing editor. He won the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism, Political Journalist of the Year by the UK Political Studies Association, and Political Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards.
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Ivo H. Daalder
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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