The Outlook

Daniel Fitzgerald Runde is a senior executive and strategist in international development, international trade, investment, global business and organizational change. Runde is the author of the book, "The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power."

World Outlook senior editor Sri Sathvik Rayala '24 and associate editors Madeleine Shaw '25, Quinn Hall '26, and Anika Mukker '26 discuss propaganda tools of illiberal governments, democratic movements, challenges proponents of liberal democracy face, motivations that drive proponents of democracy to challenge the status quo, the utility of social media for democratic activists in the Global South, the war against truth by illiberal regimes, and more with Garry Kasparov and Evan Mawarire. Kasparov is a world-renowned Chess Champion, founder of the Renew Democracy Initiative, author, and democracy and human rights advocate from Russia. Mawarire is the creator of the #ThisFlag movement, advocate, speaker, and trainer on nonviolent citizen-driven change, democracy development and human rights from Zimbabwe.

World Outlook discusses journalism, Putin’s biography, domestic political implications for Putin due to the successful Ukranian resistance, the theory of Eurasianism in Russian political discourse, the ideological dispositions of Putin, Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, and the ability of international pressure and sanctions in bringing to an end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with Philip Short, and the positioning of India and China during this invasion. A former foreign correspondent in Moscow, Beijing, and Washington, D.C., for the BBC, the Economist, and the Times of London, Short authored definitive biographies of Mao, Pol Pot, and François Mitterrand. Recently, he has published the biography, Putin, which draws on deep research to reveal the Putin behind the invasion of Ukraine which has dragged Russia back to a dark past. Short spent the 2018-19 academic year with the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College as the Magro Family Distinguished Visitor in International Affairs, while conducting research for Putin.

Josh Paul resigned from the State Department in October 2023 due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration's decision to rush lethal military assistance to Israel in the context of its war on Gaza. He had spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. He previously worked on security sector reform in both Iraq and the West Bank, with additional roles in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Army Staff, and as a Congressional staffer. Josh holds Masters degrees from the Universities of Georgetown and St Andrews, Scotland.

World Outlook senior editor Sri Sathvik Rayala '24 and associate editors Madeleine Shaw '25 and Adam Tobeck '25 discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine, refugees and migration, human rights issues, and more with Ambassador Keith Harper, who served as U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council from 2014 to 2017 during the tenure of the Obama Administration.