As we enter this new year of 2025, Sophia Besch sits down with President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Tino Cuéllar. They take a step back at the year and look at the big themes and trends that are likely going to determine and underlie the discussions of the year ahead, from technology to political economy, democratic governance, and global power dynamics.Notes:<ol><li>Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, Ecco, 2008.</li><li>James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Yale University Press, 1999.</li><li>Álvaro Enrigue, You Dreamed of Empires, Riverhead Books, 2024.</li></ol>

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