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European Values Podcast

European Values Podcast will bring you interviews with security experts, analysts or politicians on topics related to Russian and Chinese malign influence.

The main goal is to discuss lessons learned, effective policies, and best practices in countering malign foreign influence around the world.
We hope to enrich the debate on how liberal democracies can counter current security threats.
 

You can find the European Values Podcast on SoundCloud, Google Podcasts, Spotify and our website!

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Our national security interest is to help Ukraine defend itself (with Tomas Kopecny)

February 23, 2022
How is the Czech Republic doing with providing military aid to Ukraine? What has caused the West’s hesitation to supply arms? And what will be the Czech Republic’s role in Ukraine’s reconstruction? In a new episode of European Values Perspectives, filmed on the anniversary of the Russian war in Ukraine, these are not the only questions discussed by the government’s Commissioner for Ukraine Reconstruction, Tomas Kopecny, and analyst Andrej Polescuk.

Leopards going East, a shift in the German assertiveness? (with Nathalie Vogel)

January 26, 2022
European Values Center for Security Policy is actively taking part in the Czech-German dialogue. In a new episode of the European Values Podcast, Michael Murad talks to analyst Nathalie Vogel about the Scholz administration’s current change of course towards Ukraine, a transformative process with the so called ‘Zeitenwende’, hostile hybrid operations on German territory or the issue of the so-called ‘Russlandversteher’.

Ukraine Watch: Testimony from the front line (with Andrej Polescuk)

December 22, 2022
The last episode od the Euroepan Values podcast in 2022 is devoted to Ukraine. Our analysts Andrej Polescuk and David Stulik have exceptionally discussed their own experience, observations and impressions from their very recent trips to Ukraine, including even the city of Bakhmut, the city that is systematically destroyed by Russians and which is now described as a hell on Earth due to incredibly heavy fighting and shelling from Russian side.
 
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This episode was created within the frame of the Information Defense Hub with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.

Ukraine Watch: Helping Ukraine is not a one-way source, Ukraine is helping the EU to maintain itself

November 24, 2022
New episode of the Ukraine Watch edition of the European Values Podcast is about the fundamental and profound change happening in Ukraine and with Ukrainians. Their fight against Russian aggressors for the pure survival as a nation has significantly impacted Ukrainians and their mindsets and hierarchy of values. The very low tolerance of corruption, the hopes for a bright future, growing self-confidence – these are new phenomena of Ukrainian nation, which analyst David Stulík discussed with Viktoria Vdovychenko, researcher and Information Defense Hub associate.
 
The episode was recorded during the European Values Summit 2022.

Atlas of Influence: How are Czech politicians helping to spread Russian and Chinese influence in the Czech Republic?

November 11, 2022

Analysts Jindřich Přívratský and David Plášek, together with moderator Michael Murad, recorded a special episode of the European Values Podcast dedicated to the Atlas of Influence project, which aims to map how Czech politicians help or fight the spread of Russian and Chinese influence.

How did the idea for this type of project come about, which Czech politicians are most active in helping to spread hostile influence, and how do the manifestations of Russian and Chinese influence in the Czech Republic differ? Find out this and much more in the Atlas special!

All information about the government and MPs, the most important cases and votes can be found on the website www.atlasvlivu.cz.

This episode is available in Czech language only.

How to Protect Universities from Malign Interference?

October 20, 2022

This episode of the European Values Podcast focuses on protection of universities from foreign interference and undue technology transfer. It analyzes experiences from Japan and Czechia as well as possible ways how to shield academia from various security threats. Special attention is paid to China and its “civil-military fusion”, which blurred the line between the military and the civilian sphere, including Chinese academia. The guests of this episode are Professor Koichi Sumikura from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and EVC analyst David Plášek.

Read the report on China’s malign influence on academic institutions on our website here.

This episode was recorded remotely.

Ukraine Watch: Post-war reconstruction is an integral part of the Ukrainian victory

September 30, 2022
In the latest episode of our Ukraine Watch Edition, we discussed with our Ukrainian colleague and expert Krystyna Rybachok various aspects of the post-war reconstruction in Ukraine, its possible pitfalls, risks, challenges, principles guiding that process as well as overall figures illustrating the scope of damages caused by Russia to Ukraine, to her economy or infrastructure.
 
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This episode was created within the frame of the Information Defense Hub with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.

Why Sino-Serbian cooperation is so dangerous for the Western Balkan region?

September 22, 2022
With the global rise of the People’s Republic of China in international politics and economics and the shift from geopolitics to geoeconomics, the need for a focus on the often ignored nexus of environmental security and economic power arises. Located in a geostrategic region of the Western Balkans, the Republic of Serbia plays a role of a Chinese ‘regional hub’ of economic presence. Also, Serbia is a historically determined vital factor for peace, security, and stability in the Western Balkans. In a new episode of the European Values Podcast, Richard Kraemer and Jiří Němec discuss the malign impact of Sino-Serbian economic cooperation on the environmental security sector, selected human rights issues, Serbian society and consequently, national security.

This episode was recorded remotely.

Russia is a terrorist state, we should confiscate its state property, says Paul Massaro

September 15, 2022

Russian war in Ukraine affected the whole Europe. How should the West react to this unprecedented act of aggression by the member of the UN Security Council? Is the free world doing enough to stop Russia, or can more be done? In the newest episode we discussed these questions with Paul Massaro, the senior advisor for the United States to Helsinki Commission.

The views presented are those of Paul Massaro and do not represent the official position of the US Government or the OSCE.

How to Protect Strategic and Dual Use Technologies from Foreign Interference

September 1, 2022
In this episode we focus on comparison of existing policies and lessons learned for legislative and policy updates between Europe, Japan and Taiwan of how the democratic governments should make sure that sensitive technologies do not fall into the wrong hands.
 

The guests of the episode are:

Setsuko Aiko – Professor of Keio University, Chairman of the panel of experts on Japan’s economic security policy set up in November 2021 in order to enhance Japan’s economic security strategy, especially the resilience of supply chains of strategically vital goods.
 
Kristy Hsu – Director of the Taiwan ASEAN Studies Center, at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, Taiwan (R.O.C.). Her areas of research interests include Southeast Asian study, regional economic integration, international trade policy and economic/trade law, trade and development issues, and among other things she also is advisory member to International Affairs Committee of ROC Chamber of Commerce.
 
This episode was recorded remotely.

Ukraine Watch Edition: What is life like near the front line? (with Maria Makarovych)

August 26, 2022

Ukraine Watch Edition series are devoted to the latest developments in and around Ukraine that have profound implications also for the rest of the world. In this episode, European Values analyst David Stulík speaks with Bachmut native and Information Defense Hub expert Mariia Makarovych. What is life like near the front line for common Ukrainian citizens? How is the evacuation from the most threatened areas going? And what are the reasons for those who stay in their homes despite the daily risk of attack?

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This episode was created within the frame of the Information Defense Hub with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.
 
This episode was recorded remotely, Mariia Makarovych is currently located in Kyiv.

The Legacy of Shinzo Abe for the Strategic Course of Japan (with Jan Sýkora)

August 11, 2022

This episode of the European Values podcast focuses on the legacy and life of the former prime minister of Japan Mr. Shinzo Abe. Particularly, it deals with the significance of his political career for the changing security and strategic environment in East Asia and with how Japan has changed under his governments. The guest of this episode is Professor Jan Sýkora from the Institute of Asian Studies at Charles University.

This episode was recorded remotely.

Ukraine Watch Edition: On current developments in Ukraine (with Sonia Koshkina)

July 28, 2022

Ukraine Watch Edition series are devoted to the latest developments in and around Ukraine that have profound implications also for the rest of the world. In this episode, we will focus our attention on such issues as the recent grain export deal, the latest situation at the front and the expected Ukrainian counter-offensive in the south and domestic personal top reshuffling at Ukrainian law-enforcement agencies. The guest of this episode is Sonia Koshkina, a prominent and well-known Ukrainian journalist, who is nowadays a team member of the Information Defense Hub within European Values Center for Security Policy.

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This episode was created within the frame of the Information Defense Hub with the support of the European Cultural Foundation.

How authoritarian regimes and dictatorships cooperate together? (with Roberta Bonazzi)

July 14, 2022

What can we do to increase our resilience and independence on authoritarian regimes? Could de-coupling them be the way? And what illiberal tendencies inside the European Union we should be aware of?
These and more questions were asked by Veronika Vichova, Deputy Director for Analysis and Head of Kremlin Watch Program in European Values Center for Security Policy to the founder and president of the European Foundation for Democracy Roberta Bonazzi.

In the podcast Roberta Bonazzi refers to following articles and documentary:

The Wall Street Journal: Iran used secret UN records to evade nuclear probes
The Wall Street Journal: How Iran tapped international banks to keep its economy afloat
Documentary: What is it like to live in a rogue state

Interview with Maria Kovač, Ukrainian government expert on European integration

June 16, 2022

In the second episode of the European Values Podcast, analyst David Stulík spoke with Maria Kovač, Ukrainian government expert on European integration and analyst at the Information Defense Hub. The topics of the interview included Ukraine’s possible EU candidate status, European solidarity and unity, and important reforms that should take place in Ukraine.

How to do business with China safely? (with professor Kazuto Suzuki)

May 18, 2022

The first episode of the EVC Podcast with professor Kazuto Suzuki from University of Tokio is dedicated to overal issue of economic security, how to define it, and how countries can achieve it in general. Specifically, we focused on whether and how could democratic countries do business with China and Russia safely. Last but not least, we discussed the new Japanese institutional and legal framework built to achieve its economic security.

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