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In the fifth episode of the ReCentered podcast, Sun Chenghao, Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University in Beijing, joins host Nico Luchsinger to explore how observers in China see the current global shifts. They discuss whether the sense of rupture resonates in Beijing, China’s view on middle powers and strategic hedging, the redefinition of US competition as selective hegemony, divergent approaches to AI governance, China’s modernisation narrative and its appeal to the Global South, and the state of China-Europe relations. In the second part of the episode, Katrina Abatis, Head of Asian Affairs at GCSP, joins to reflect on the themes of the conversation.

Sun Chenghao at CISS, Tsinghua University: https://ciss.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/
Nico Luchsinger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoluchsinger/
Amitav Acharya, Antoni Estevadeordal, and Louis W. Goodman, Multipolar or Multiplex? Interaction Capacity, Global Cooperation and World Order (referenced by Katrina Abatis in the episode): https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/99/6/2339/7337131

ReCentered is produced by Florian Golay, William Tavelli, and Nico Luchsinger.

In the fourth episode of the ReCentered podcast, Emile Hokayem, Director of Regional Security and Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), joins host Nico Luchsinger to talk about how the Middle East is experiencing the current global shifts. They discuss the sense of rupture in a region that has long lived through upheaval, the rise of the Gulf states as geopolitical actors, the cataclysmic impact of the war on Iran, the fraying of the US security guarantee, India’s role and the IMEC corridor, and Europe’s conspicuous absence. In the second part of the episode, Katrina Abatis, Head of Asian Affairs at GCSP, joins to reflect on the themes of the conversation.

Emile Hokayem at IISS: https://www.iiss.org/people/emile-hokayem/

Nico Luchsinger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoluchsinger/

ReCentered is produced by Florian Golay, William Tavelli, and Nico Luchsinger

In the third episode of the ReCentered podcast, Cobus van Staden, Head of Research at the China Global South Project, joins host Nico Luchsinger to explore how Africa and the Global South experience the current global shifts – and the role China plays in them. They discuss the meaning and usefulness of the term “Global South,” Africa’s growing agency on the world stage, China’s modernisation narrative as a counterpoint to Western nostalgia, and the opportunities and limits of Europe’s engagement with the continent. In the second part of the episode, Katrina Abatis, Head of Asian Affairs at GCSP, joins to reflect on the themes of the conversation.

Cobus van Staden on X: https://x.com/CobusVS

China Global South Project: https://chinaglobalsouth.com

Nico Luchsinger on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoluchsinger/

Felwine Sarr, Afrotopia (referenced by Katrina Abatis in the episode)

ReCentered is produced by Florian Golay, William Tavelli, and Nico Luchsinger

In the second episode of the ReCentered podcast, Alexander Gabuev, the Director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and an expert in Russian foreign policy, joins host Nico Luchsinger to discuss how Moscow and Beijing view the current conversations around the emergence of a new world order. In the second part of the episode, GCSP Executive Director Thomas Greminger joins to share his take-aways from the Munich Security Conference.

Alexander Gabuev on X

Thomas Greminger on LinkedIn

Nico Luchsinger on LinkedIn

Alexander Gabuev and Oliver Stuenkel: BRICS is Missing its Chance, in Foreign Affairs (November 18, 2025). 

ReCentered is a podcast from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). It is produced by Florian Golay, William Tavelli, and Nico Luchsinger.