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Superpowers and superpeacemakers — your guide with John Lyons, Sam Roggeveen, Ilaria Walker and Natasha Mitchell

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Towards 2030, who will be the world’s key superpowers and peacemakers? (Peter Zelei Images /Getty)

Smaller conflicts than those we're witnessing right now have set off world wars. Who will be the crucial superpowers and super peacemakers in the next five years? Get your head around the major machinations and manoeuvres with Natasha Mitchell and guests.

Thanks to the 2024 Sorrento Writers Festival and festival director Corrie Perkin and team.

Speakers

John Lyons
Multi-Walkley-award-winning journalist and the ABC's Global Affairs editor
Author, Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir (new edition 2024)

Sam Roggeveen
Director, Lowy Institute's International Security Program
Author, The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (Latrobe University Press, 2023)

Ilaria Walker
Asia Pacific Editor at 360info (a global public interest journalism initiative at Monash University)

Credits

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World Politics, Unrest, Conflict and War, Peace Process, Elections
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