{"podcast":{"title":"The World Stage","slug":"the-world-stage-6616587","podcast_index_feed_id":6616587,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/the-world-stage","website_url":"https://www.nupi.no/nupi_eng/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61e7dd4277c0270013a926af/1702537160340-a0e2950510fcc92eec85f52ee64dfeb1.jpeg","author":"NUPI","episode_count":101,"summary":"What is happening in the world right now? In this podcast produced by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) we'll take a closer look at events taking place around the globe. Here you will find conversations, seminars and lectures on different international topics. We hope you'll learn something new! For our Norwegian-speaking audience, we also recommend our podcast series Utenrikshospitalet and Hvor hender det? . If you have any feedback or tips, please contact us on post@nupi.no Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-stage-6616587"},"episode":{"title":"Trust, anger and the limits of EU democracy promotion","slug":"trust-anger-and-the-limits-of-eu-democracy-promotion","published_at":"2026-01-19T13:40:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-stage-6616587/trust-anger-and-the-limits-of-eu-democracy-promotion","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-stage-6616587","url":"https://www.nupi.no/en/media-appearances/podcasts","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/61e7dd4277c0270013a926af/e/696e344a1e4bca00bf011d86/media.mp3","summary":"In the EU’s enlargement debate, attention usually centres on Brussels—legal benchmarks, progress reports and diplomatic bargaining. But in countries hoping to join the bloc, politics is often decided via informal power networks, fragile institutions and the everyday effort of navigating uncertainty.  In this episode we shift from the top-down to the ground level as Jessica Hendrick speaks with Morten Bøås, research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), who is leading RE-ENGAGE’s comparative fieldwork across Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine.  Together, they take listeners behind the scenes of how the project gathers original data in places shaped by war, protest and political pressure. Methods range from training local university students to conduct trust surveys to vignette experiments that test how citizens respond to crises and competing external “relief packages” from China, the EU, Russia and Turkey.  What do early findings reveal? What does “trust” really look like in a hybrid regime? How can the EU design programmes that people actually feel, rather than reforms they never see? And what should Brussels learn about democracy promotion to avoid repeating past mistakes?  This is the third episode from the RE-ENGAGE podcast series The Neighbourhood , which unpacks how countries hoping to join the EU navigate political change and outside pressure, and what that means for Europe’s democracy and security. The podcast series is produced by ECFR, and co-published by ECFR and NUPI. The RE-ENGAGE pro…","meta_description":"In the EU’s enlargement debate, attention usually centres on Brussels—legal benchmarks, progress reports and diplomatic bargainin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2209,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-world-stage-6616587/episodes/trust-anger-and-the-limits-of-eu-democracy-promotion/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-world-stage-6616587/trust-anger-and-the-limits-of-eu-democracy-promotion.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}