June 24, London Summer cocktail drinks. Enjoy a glass of wine and a breathtaking view of London as PS21, together with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) hosts a summer drinks evening. The event is currently fully booked. If you would still like to join us, email us on ps21central@gmail.com and we will let you know if a space opens up.
July 6, Kidnap and Ransom. From Isis to Somali pirates, the last decade has seen an unprecedented level of interest in kidnap and ransom. PS21 brings together a uniquely qualified panel to look at the elite group of specialists who offer negotiation skills in this sphere and to consider what role governments should take when it comes to paying ransom to kidnappers. The discussion will be moderated by PS21 executive director Peter Apps and the panel will include Nigel Inkster, former deputy-chief Secret Intelligence (MI6), Brittany Damora, senior operations manager, Kidnap and Ransom, Aegis Response and Nigel Brennan, photojournalist and author who was kidnapped in Somalia in 2008 and held hostage for 15 months. Click here to RSVP for this event.
Washington DC
July 28, Event with Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer. We are excited to invite you to join us for a conversation with Ian Bremmer, president of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group and leading geopolitical thinker. His latest book Superpower examines the potential routes forward for the United States in a new and uncertain era. The event will be moderated by Ali Wyne, PS21 global fellow and member of the adjunct staff at the RAND Corporation. To book your spot, RSVP here.
What PS21 was up to this week:
If you missed it earlier this week, you definitely want to check out our report on the takeaways from our event What Would a Hillary Clinton Foreign Policy look like? The discussion was moderated by Ali Wyne, PS21 global fellow and member of the adjunct staff at RAND Corporation. The panelists included Ari Ratner, State Department political appointee 2009-2012 and fellow at New America, Warren Strobel, chief diplomatic correspondent for Reuters and Leigh O’Neill, policy director for the Truman National Security Project.
Patrick Bury, private security specialist since 2011, PhD Candidate at the University of Exeter’s Strategy and Security Institute and PS21 global fellow, questions the need for NATO while IS advances in Libya as political negotiations falter.
Sandy Schumann (PhD), PS21 global fellow, visiting post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict and an Affiliated Researcher at the Universite Libre Bruxelles, challenges some assumptions and highlights the power of online activism in her piece, It’s more than just a click! Why we should stop referring to online activism as slacktivism.
Peter Apps, executive director of PS21, had two pieces published this week, one on London’s cable car and the other on what a possible end to the IS war might look like. Read his piece on Ignore the critics. London’s cable car belongs on the tube map too on CityMetric.com and How will the war on Islamic State end? on Reuters.com.
For a comprehensive list of our previous postings, with links, refer below:
June 2015
14/06/2015 Upcoming Events and Review – Week Ending June 12
11/06/2015 PS21 Announces Governing Board
10/06/2015 PS21Report:Former UK Special Forces Chief on 21st Century Defence
09/06/2015 Iraq: America’s best hope in the Middle East – Payam Ghalehdar
05/06/2015 Upcoming Events and Weekly Review – Week Ending June 5
04/06/2015 Sisi’s foreign policy, restore Egypt as regional power – David Hartwell
03/06/2015 ‘New’ Terrorism – Dr. Chris Mackmurdo & Dr Alia Brahimi
01/06/2015 A South China Sea Air Defence Zone? – Erik Lin-Greenberg
May 2015
31/05/2015 The ISIS War: Where Are We? Key takeaways and Media
29/05/2015 PS21 Update: Week Ending May 29
27/05/2015 What next for Britain? – David Murrin
23/05/2015 Upcoming Events and PS21 Update Week ending 22 May
21/05/2015 London event takeaways: The UK election – what we’ve learned
19/05/2015 Italicum: Achieving governability and democracy – Giulia Pastorella
18/ 05/2015 PS21 Update: Week ending 15 May
14/05/2015 African strategies key in addressing terrorism – Edward Wanyonyi
14/05/2015 Karachi: low-intensity attacks, risk to minorities – Omar Hamid
11/05/2015 PS21 Update: Week Ending 8th May
11/05/2015 SNP victories real seismic change in UK election – Peter Apps
08/05/2015 PS 21: The First 100 Days
06/05/2015 Event Takeaways: The Middle East in Flux
06/05/2015 What now for Libya? – Patrick Bury
04/05/2015 Rise of Anti-Immigrant Movements in Europe – Sandy Schumann
03/05/2015 What does this election tell us about modern Britain? – Peter Apps
02/05/2015 PS21 Update – Week Ending Friday 1st May
April 2015
30/04/2015 DC and London UK Election Discussions: Key Takeaways and Media
29/04/2015 What Russia really thinks on Ukraine – Vassily Kashin
28/04/2015 A Migrant’s Short Story – Emmanuel Akintwu
28/04/2015 Dangerous Crossing: migrants in Mediterranean – Peter Apps
27/04/2015 Nigeria’s next challenge: its constitution – Eric Mwiine-Magaju
24/04/2015 PS21 Update: Week Ending 24 April
24/04/2015 Crime and Counterterrorism in Karachi: DC Event Key Takeaways
23/04/2015 High Spending Russia Closes Naval Gap with West – Philip Thicknesse
21/04/2015 A hashtag’s consequences in Nigeria- Emmanuel Akinwotu
20/04/2015 Cyber Insurance – An Emerging Market – Tom Allen
17/04/2015PS21 Update – Week Ending 17 April
15/04/2015 DC event – A Conversation with Joseph Nye: Key Takeaways
13/04/2015 The rise of “National Innovation Foundations”- Frank Spring
10/04/2015 University attack stark lessons for Kenya- Edward Wanyonyi
09/04/2015 Organising in the 21st Century: Linda Tirado
05/04/2015 The Islamic State in Libya – Alia Brahimi
02/04/2015 The 21st Century Clash of Cultures- David Murrin
01/04/2015 Deepnet: is the “bad web” good or evil? Michael Gillespie
March 2015
30/03/2015 Turkey in the New Middle East – Enea Gjoza
28/03/2015 Burying England’s last post-apocalyptic warlord – Peter Apps
28/03/2015 Yemen heads down Syria’s path – Hayat Alvi
27/03/2015 How Boko Haram changed Nigeria – Emmanuel Akinwotu
26/03/2015 Assessing the New US National Security Strategy- Ali Wyne
25/03/2015 PS21 at Two (Months) – Peter Apps
23/03/2015 Breaking a decades-long trend, the world gets more violent
22/03/2015 The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Arab Spring – Lara Fatah
21/03/2015 Spike in Media Coverage of PS21 Study on Spike in Death Tolls
19/03/2015 Where the West went wrong in Libya – Joseph Walker-Cousins
17/03/2015 PS21 Announces 10 New Global Fellows
17/03/2015 Death Toll in 2014’s Bloodiest Wars Sharply Up on Previous Year
17/03/2015 Conversation with Hussain Haqqani, Pakistani Ambassador to US
16/03/2015 To Defeat ISIS, look to the Bolsheviks – Jack Goldstone
13/03/2015 Anonymous vs. ISIS: Ryan Hagemann
11/03/2015 The New ‘Long War’ with Russia – Philip Thicknesse
11/03/2015 Introducing PS21 World – Peter Apps
08/03/2015 The Cultural outpouring fuelled by Syrian war – Miriam Cooke
06/03/2015 For young Syrians, war brings unexpected freedom – Rasha Elass
04/03/2015 London Discussion on Mideast Social Media: Key takeaways
03/03/2015 After Arab Spring, Challenges for Islamic NGOs – Amjad Saleem
01/03/2015 London Discussion: South Asia Geopolitics Afpak to Sri Lanka
01/03/2015 PS21 a Month In: Update from Executive Director Peter Apps
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