Top ten foreign policy trends for 2023

Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro forecast the foreign policy trends and events for the year ahead

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Our beloved predictions episode is back! As they do every year, Mark Leonard and ECFR research director Jeremy Shapiro forecast the foreign policy trends and events for the year ahead.

If other analysts saw it coming, Mark and Jeremy certainly didn’t. Their 2022 prediction of “no large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine” really threw last year’s scoring off leaving them with only 6/10 points. Will they do better this time? And what are your foreign policy predictions for 2023? Send us an email or tweet them to us using #Worldin30Minutes!

This podcast was recorded on 4 January 2023.

Further reading:

2023: The year we learn to stop worrying by Mark Leonard & Jeremy Shapiro

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