Global Power Shifts

Global Power Shifts is about the new multipolar world — and the rise of the rest. Journalists Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour (CNN, BBC, NBC, Fox News, Reuters) speak with the people who set policy, not just comment on it. Previous guests include sitting and former ministers, ambassadors, and security chiefs offering unvarnished views on energy, sanctions, tech sovereignty, maritime chokepoints, information ops, and statecraft. It’s decoding a changing world — how power is moving beyond a single center, and what that means for governments, markets, and daily life.

Global Power Shifts is a news podcast hosted by World1Media, with 31 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

World1Media hosts Global Power Shifts, a news show with 31 episodes published.

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  Episode #31

  When 50,000 Migrants Storm Your Hometown: Morocco, Spain and Ceuta, with Verónica Muñoz

  Aug 3, 202623 minS1

  Tens of thousands crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on 30 July, the biggest border breach in Europe's history. Verónica Muñoz grew up there. Her dad still lives there alone. Most of the crossers were young Moroccans hoping for a better life, and the crossings were organized openly on TikTok and WhatsApp. Some drowned off Tarajal beach. Days later most were back in Morocco and the cameras moved on. Verónica joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour with the view from inside: her father behind shuttered shops, why "Spanish colony in North Africa" gets 600 years of history wrong, and whether Rabat let it happen. Her answer: "Of course the Moroccan government allowed it." Also in this episode: Italy's border checks on arrivals from Spain, open talk of suspending an EU member from Schengen, and Pedro Sánchez. He's feuded with Trump, backed Palestine while Morocco allied with Washington and Israel, and legalized 500,000 migrants while the rest of Europe turned right. Now his government is fighting for survival. Follow Verónica: instagram.com/ajournalistvlogWatch on YouTube: youtube.com/@GlobalPowerShiftsAll episodes: jimstenman.com/global-power-shifts

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  Episode #30

  India Is Rising, But Is Its Democracy Quietly Dying?

  Jul 16, 202648 minS1

  India is the world's most populous country and a rising power courted by Washington, Moscow, Brussels and the Gulf at once. It is also, in the words of this week's guest, a democracy dying "slowly, quietly." No tanks on the road, no takeover of the TV station. A silent coup. Josy Joseph has spent thirty years reporting on India's security establishment and its corruption. He is the founder of Confluence Media, co-producer of Black Warrant, the hit Netflix crime series set in Delhi's Tihar prison. His new book, Birth of a Nation, draws on newly declassified archives to tell the story almost nobody outside India knows: how 565 kings and ruling families surrendered their thrones in a matter of months in 1947, what he calls the largest handover of hereditary power in history, and how close India came to breaking apart at birth. He joins Jim Stenman and Suzanne Kianpour to connect that violent founding to the India of today: why the wound of Partition never healed and still drives the standoff with Pakistan; Gandhi's final defeat, accepted in silence on the backs of five old envelopes; how an estimated four million security and intelligence personnel became political weapons; Hindu nationalism and what it means for India's 200 million Muslims; why foreign investors are pulling back from Modi's India; how Delhi reads Pakistan's new role as mediator of the Iran war; and why, despite everything, he calls this the golden era of Indian investigative journalism. Josy Joseph is the author of A Feast of Vultures, The Silent Coup (published internationally as How to Subvert a Democracy), and Birth of a Nation. 🎧 Follow Global Power Shifts▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalPowerShifts🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK4983mRNmZPfApRy🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-power-shifts/id1791326929📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalpowershifts

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  Episode #29

  Andrew Henderson: Why the Nomad Capitalist Founder Quit America

  Jun 27, 202658 minS1

  Andrew Henderson renounced his US citizenship in 2017. He holds six passports, owns homes on several continents, and runs Nomad Capitalist, the firm built around one line: go where you're treated best. He joins Jim Stenman with an uncomfortable argument. Countries now compete for capital and talent, American power is fading at the margins, and loyalty to where you were born is a bad trade. He explains where that takes his own money, from land in Cambodia and Paraguay to a bet on Africa, a continent he calls rich in everything except leverage. The conversation runs through exit taxes, the real cost of a second passport, Dubai after the war, the South Caucasus, and whether democracy still delivers. Listen on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Follow #GlobalPowerShifts for more.

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  Episode #28

  Trump, the GERD, and the US-Ethiopia Balancing Act, with Cameron Hudson

  Jun 18, 202630 minS1

  Trump put the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam back on the table at the G7, sitting next to Egypt's President Sisi and framing the dispute around Cairo, even describing his bond with Sisi as a love affair. The US-Ethiopia relationship is warming at the same time, through a Boeing jet deal, financing for Ethiopia's new international airport, and US backing for Abiy against the Tigrayans. Cameron Hudson, formerly of the CIA, NSC and State Department and now at 54 Advisors and CSIS, joins Jim Stenman to work through whether Washington can be an honest broker on the Nile, why Ethiopia will not negotiate, and how Egypt is trying to isolate Addis. They close on the wider risks across the Horn, including Eritrea, Somaliland's tilt toward Israel, and Somalia's fragmentation. 🎧 Follow Global Power Shifts ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalPowerShifts 🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1T2CsAK4983mRNmZPfApRy 🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-power-shifts/id1791326929 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/globalpowershifts

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  Episode #27

  Is Kazakhstan the Quiet Winner of an Iran Deal?

  Jun 3, 202645 minS1

  <p>If Trump's framework with Iran lands, Tehran's enriched uranium has to go somewhere. Kazakhstan keeps coming up as the credible candidate, with an IAEA uranium bank already on its soil and nearly 40% of the world's uranium production.</p><p>Around that question sits a wider shift. Kazakhstan and its Central Asian neighbours are quietly reducing their dependence on Russia, hedging between Moscow and Beijing, and pulling in Gulf and Western capital at scale.</p><p>Jim Stenman sits down with Ambassador Daniel Rosenblum, former US Ambassador to Kazakhstan, on uranium, oil routes, Russian leverage and the regional repositioning the...

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