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Tuesday 19th March, 2024
Suzanne and Ali talk with Ciaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre.
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Tuesday 5th March, 2024
Ali and Suzanne are joined by Renad Mansour and Zmkan Ali of Chatham House to discuss their new report on cross-border conflict.
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Thursday 8th February, 2024
Professor Ali Ansari and Suzanne Raine are joined by Professor Bill Hurst, Director of the Centre for Geopolitics, to ask what we should conclude from the results of the Taiwanese elections on 13 January.
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Tuesday 30th January, 2024
Suzanne Raine and Ali Ansari start with Baluchistan, and then widen the lens to look at what is driving Iranian aggression in the Middle East. They examine how the threat of force becomes the use of force, and the extent to which apparent co-ordinated Iranian activity might not be quite as simple as it seems.
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Wednesday 20th December, 2023
Professor Phillips O’Brien joins Suzanne and Ali to discuss why enabling Ukraine to win is in the US’s strategic interest, and why limited assistance not only protracts the conflict but raises the risk of wider long-term instability in Europe.
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Tuesday 21st November, 2023
Recent events in Israel and Gaza have highlighted how hard it is to orientate in the absence of clear facts. At these times of crisis, how do political leaders decide what to do? Ali Ansari and Suzanne Raine are joined by the Rt Hon Charles Clarke, who was British Home Secretary at the time of […]
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Wednesday 18th October, 2023
Dr Charlie Laderman joins Ali and Suzanne to explore the origins of the dispute between Azerbaijan and Armenia, the current situation, and the real and increasing risk of renewed violence in the Caucasus.
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Wednesday 27th September, 2023
In 2024, approximately four billion people will be involved in national elections, which in turn will shape how states take geopolitical positions and decisions. Suzanne and Ali consider key themes such as misinformation, manipulation and division which are likely to feature heavily in this major global electoral year.
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Monday 25th September, 2023
Suzanne and Ali discuss the origins of the term and ask how states navigate between pursuit of their interests and being true to their values and ideals.
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Tuesday 12th September, 2023
Professor Bill Hurst joins Suzanne to explore what — if anything — the expansion of the BRICS signifies for those countries joining and for China, and look at how to interpret indicators about the current state of the Chinese economy.
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Thursday 17th August, 2023
Suzanne and Ali are joined by Air Marshal (Retd) Ed Stringer to look at what defines heroic leadership, whether it can be taught and whether the idea of the genius leader is fit for today’s challenges.
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Monday 7th August, 2023
Ali and Suzanne are joined by Professor Mike Hulme, a climate change specialist, and author of Climate Change Isn’t Everything, who argues that the current approach to climate change targets and deadlines oversimplifies a complex problem and makes it less likely that we will meet them.
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Monday 7th August, 2023
Ali and Suzanne discuss the idea of ‘authoritarian resilience’, the broader relationship between theory and practice, and how we should avoid becoming prisoners of paradigms.
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Friday 16th June, 2023
Ali and Suzanne are joined by Richard Williams of Bunker Hill Mining Corporation to explore global competition for resource, and look at how and whether the US aim to ‘de-risk’ global supply will work in practice.
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Monday 22nd May, 2023
Ali and Suzanne are joined by Centre Affiliate Dr John Nilsson-Wright to consider this trilateral relationship in the run-up to the G7.
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Thursday 11th May, 2023
Ali and Suzanne are joined by the Centre’s Dr Hugo Bromley to consider the historical drivers behind the formation of the UK Union and their relevance today.
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Thursday 11th May, 2023
The Centre’s Iran-China expert Bill Figueroa joins Ali and Suzanne to look at the dynamics of the new triumvirate of Iran, Saudi Arabia and China.
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Thursday 13th April, 2023
The second part of Suzanne and Ali’s discussion on the difference personal relationships between leaders can make at critical geopolitical moments.
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Thursday 30th March, 2023
Suzanne and Ali ask how much difference personal relationships between leaders make at critical geopolitical moments.
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Wednesday 15th March, 2023
Professor Brendan Simms gives Ali and Suzanne his impressions of the key themes from this year’s Munich Security Conference and what this means for European security and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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Wednesday 8th March, 2023
Does learning lessons from history do more harm than good?
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Friday 3rd March, 2023
Ali and Suzanne ask whether we are trapped by history — and how we might use it better to approach today’s challenges.
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Friday 23rd December, 2022
Expert on international summits Professor Tristen Naylor joins Ali and Suzanne to ask what summits are for, whether they are worth it, and what makes them successful (or not).
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Friday 23rd December, 2022
Suzanne and Ali discuss the current protests with Dr Anahita Arian, from the Centre for Geopolitics.
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Wednesday 7th December, 2022
Professor Bill Hurst and Suzanne Raine examine the significance of the recent outbreak of protests in many cities in China, and the CCP’s response.
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Thursday 27th October, 2022
Suzanne and Ali discuss how the anti-Western case is made by leaders from Putin to Bin Laden (and everyone in between)
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Wednesday 19th October, 2022
After an eventful summer, Suzanne and Ali discuss the role and limitations of predictions and forecasting in geopolitics.