The GCM: The clash between populism and technocracy

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Mark Leonard speaks with Shoshana Fine, Tom Nuttall, Jose Ignacio Torreblanca, and Patrycja  Sasnal about the UN’s Global Compact for Migration, and whether it matters that some European countries haven’t signed it. The podcast was recorded on 12 December 2018.

Bookshelf:
Go, went, gone by Jenny Erpenbeck 
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt 
Security at the Borders: Transnational Practices and Technologies in West Africa by Philippe M. Frowd 
Revolution Of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology by Erich Fromm 
Distant Love by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim 

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