Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
Hosted by Mark Leonard · ECFR
4.6from 314 ratings
- 660
- Episodes
- 50
- Transcribed
- 314
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 325K
- YouTube views
About Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
Weekly podcast on the events, policies and ideas that will shape the world.World in 30 minutes is curated by Mark Leonard, Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and features top-level speakers from across the EU and beyond to debate and discuss Europe’s role in the world. It was awarded “Best podcasts on EU politics” by PolicyLab in 2019.Member of the EuroPod network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- ECFR
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Jan 2015
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
50 of 660 episodes have a transcript.
6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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The Iran war after the midterms
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Vance is right that the Iran war was very much responsible for their defeat. But we should understand the mechanism – The mechanism for that was, I would say, almost entirely the Iran war's effect on gas and diesel prices, which seems to be the single big, most important variable in any U.S. election. […]
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- Nevada Joan Lee
- Stephen Wertheim
- Andrew Small
- Guntram Wolf
- Pierre Heilbronn
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 324,858
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 108 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 206 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 77 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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Mark Leonard host the show. Published by ECFR.
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