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The Geopolitics & Power Podcast

The Geopolitics & Power Podcast

Curious Worldview Production 80 Episodes Feb 23, 2026

This podcast presents select segments from the longer 'A Curious Worldview' show, focusing on geopolitics and power dynamics. The content is part of a larger project that includes a Substack newsletter, and full episodes are available on other platforms such as Spotify. The topics explored go beyond geopolitics, offering a broad perspective on world affairs.

Episodes

Eric Beecher| Media Moguls & Those Who Killed The News
Eric Beecher| Media Moguls & Those Who Killed The News Feb 23, 2026 00:53:03 The Men Who Killed The News (Book)My Substack (Subscribe)Podcast Starter PacksOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists---Eric Beecher is a veteran journalist, editor and entrepreneur whose experienced first hand the dramatic evolution of the previous 40 years of media. From broadsheet’s to TV t
Phil Elwood | 'All The Worst Humans' Confessions of a Public Relations Operative
Phil Elwood | 'All The Worst Humans' Confessions of a Public Relations Operative Feb 16, 2026 00:57:48 All The Worst Humans - Phil ElwoodMy Substack (Subscribe)Podcast Starter PacksOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists“I deserved whatever the opposite of a Pulitzer is.”Phil Elwood is the author of All the Worst Humans, a confessional memoir from the dubious world of public relations.As a PR o
Nicolas Niarchos | Congo, Cobalt & China... The Elements Of Power
Nicolas Niarchos | Congo, Cobalt & China... The Elements Of Power Feb 9, 2026 01:17:55 The Elements of Power - Nicolas NiarchosMy Substack (Subscribe)Previous guests on the podcast similar to this!Nicolas Niarchos First Appearance On The PodTim Butcher - Blood River (CLASSIC EP)Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's GhostJon Lee Anderson - New Yorker Staff Writer, A Life Of AdventurePodcast Starter PacksOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic
Jeremy Dicker | International Intrigue's 10 Geopolitical Predictions For 2026
Jeremy Dicker | International Intrigue's 10 Geopolitical Predictions For 2026 Feb 2, 2026 01:36:58 International Intrigue - NewsletterMy Substack (Subscribe)Previous guests on the podcast similar to this!Robert Kaplan - A World In CrisisPodcast Starter PacksOffshore Finance/Kleptocracy & Money LaunderingGeopolitics/Economics/Economic DevelopmentExplorers & AdventurersInvestigative Journalists---Jeremy Dicker is a co-founder of International Intrigue, a daily geopolitics newsletter deliv
Vince Beiser | Copper Is The Wire Of Empire & We Don't Have Enough
Vince Beiser | Copper Is The Wire Of Empire & We Don't Have Enough Nov 11, 2025 00:41:29 Full Episode On Curious Worldview“In the next 25 years, the world will need more copper than in all of human history.”Amendment - I said 3.2 billion kg of copper in opening question, I should have said 320 million kg. In this episode, journalist and author Vince Beiser returns to the podcast to discuss his book Power Metal, a sobering look at the metals that make modern civilization possible — and
Chris Arnade | 'Walks The World'
Chris Arnade | 'Walks The World' Nov 4, 2025 00:23:37 Full Episode On Curious WorldviewSubscribe to Chris Arnade's Substack - https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/Who is Chris Arnade!He started as a physicist, earning a PHD from Johns Hopkins and then took to Wall St spending two decades on an elite trading desk at CitiGroup before disillusioning his well dressed allies to engage in the photography, walking and writing of the great and forgotten
Sam Roggeveen | 'The Echidna Strategy' - Australian Defence & Military
Sam Roggeveen | 'The Echidna Strategy' - Australian Defence & Military Oct 20, 2025 00:48:56 Full Episode With Sam Roggeveen On The Curious WorldviewSam Roggeveen - The Echidna StrategyCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe-----Sam Roggeveen coined The 'Echidna Strategy' -  which is an on the nose metaphor for thinking about Australian Defence policy. Echidna’s are a tiny, cute little animals native to Australia. They are essentially harmless
Pat McGee | Apple's Historic Transfer Of Technology, Expertise & Investment Into China
Pat McGee | Apple's Historic Transfer Of Technology, Expertise & Investment Into China Oct 13, 2025 00:49:44 Full Episode On A Curious Worldview PodcastPat McGee - Apple in ChinaCurious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe-----Each year, Apple sells more than 100 million unit's of it's various products, with some factories capable of producing up to 500,000 iPhones (alone) per day. This scale of quality and quantity is not replicated anywhere else in history. And
Warden Of The Isolation Unit At Sweden's Largest Maximum Security Prison
Warden Of The Isolation Unit At Sweden's Largest Maximum Security Prison Oct 9, 2025 01:09:36 Full Episode - Curious Worldview PodcastArne Anderson, Three Tours In Afghanistan For The Swedish Military #46Swedens Elite Police Unit, Piketen #146Christopher Neijd Police Lieutenant in Södertälje & Southern Stockholm #165 -----Because of my old mate, Arne Andersson - I’ve been incredibly lucky to have gotten to know several of his old military buddies. There are those listed above...And the
Adam Hochschild | King Leopold's Ghost (Horror In The Congo)
Adam Hochschild | King Leopold's Ghost (Horror In The Congo) Jun 11, 2025 00:36:47 Curious Worldview (Spotify)Curious Worldview (Apple)Tim Butcher Episode (Blood River Congo) - King Leopold's Ghost Book - https://www.amazon.com.au/King-Leopolds-Ghost-Adam-Hochshild/dp/0618001905From 1885, for 13 years, one man, King Leopold II, owned, as his personal property, one of the largest pieces of geography on earth. The Congo is four times larger than France, it’s bigger than India,
Axel Humlesjö | Honeytraps, Sparrows & Russian Money Laundering
Axel Humlesjö | Honeytraps, Sparrows & Russian Money Laundering Jun 8, 2025 00:42:48 Curious Worldview Podcast (Spotify) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vofLaGavfQEEGkkSmwlTi?si=0vc-V65-Qref_ZlZdj--tgCurious Worldview Podcast (Apple) - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/axel-humlesj%C3%B6-money-laundering-is-the-biggest/id1540424160?i=1000700665617----Axel Humlesjö is a Swedish journalist against which money laundering, the plumbing of offshore finance and the cancerous nat
Philippe Gijsels | The New World Economy in 5 Trends
Philippe Gijsels | The New World Economy in 5 Trends Jun 4, 2025 00:38:46 Curious Worldview Podcast (Spotify) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/4EQW5Ylr4lrqLUyj5V0oiA?si=xWxWWkbbTUqoDN5JeyRLtwCurious Worldview (Apple)Philippe Gijsels Book - https://www.amazon.com/World-Economy-Trends-superinflation-hyperinnovation/dp/9401409013-----The following is with Philippe Gijsels, the Chief Strategy Officer at BNP Paribas Fortis - he co-wrote a book last year called The New Worl

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