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PS21 new year update and upcoming events
Dear all, Hope you had a good Christmas and new year break – even if the news cycle appears to keep determinedly churning out interesting new events right up until the end of the year. From the deaths of a remarkable number of celebrities to the electoral shots of Trump… Listen ⇢
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What next for Germany?
by Linda Schlegel. Linda is an student of MA Terrorism Studies at King’s College London 2016 has been a bumpy road so far for politics, most notably with an unexpected Brexit vote and (according to the polls) an equally unexpected victory for Donald Trump over his opponent Hillary Clinton in… Listen ⇢
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Achieving Foresight with Impact
Cat Tully is founder of School of International Futures; a think-tank that builds the capacity of policy-makers, decision-makers and civil society to use and gain impact from strategic foresight. “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd” Voltaire Farhad Manjoo’s NYT article Why We Need to Pick Up… Listen ⇢
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Is the ICC losing legitimacy in Africa?
by Eric Mugaju. Eric has just completed MSc Social Policy at LSE. He writes regularly for The Observer (Uganda) on Ugandan politics, law and development issues in East Africa. Many African countries have been threatening to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over accusations that the court… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update weekending Nov 4
A couple of great discussions over the last two weeks in both London and New York, a testament to some of the range of really great speakers we’ve managed to get. Many thanks to Thomson Reuters in Manhattan for hosting last week’s events on US foreign policy after the election chaired… Listen ⇢
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The Hamas Model: What makes Hamas so resilient?
by Linda Schlegel. Linda is an student of MA Terrorism Studies at King’s College London. Since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism and the corresponding academic field of terrorism studies have been filling the headlines and cover-stories of newspapers and provided opening stories for news shows on TV. Not one day goes… Listen ⇢
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Is China’s growing appetite a threat to global food security?
by Tim Abington. Tim is a 6th Form student applying to study International Relations. Over the course of the last two decades, China has become the blueprint for rising nations by becoming the dominant power across the East Asia and beyond. Yet, the People’s Republic is not without weakness… Listen ⇢
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Roundup: Our top posts so far
As the PS21 website approaches its 1st anniversary, we showcase some of our top contributions so far. To kick things off are a few offerings from the Imagining 2030 series, where writers describe the world as they imagine it in 14 years time…. Merkel’s Kinder: Caitlin Vito’s short piece imagines… Listen ⇢
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The problem with outsourcing Europe’s migrant crisis
by Catherine Tilke. Catherine edits the PS21 website and can be reached at editor@projects21.org. The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)- the government body responsible for the Britain’s overseas aid budget and major backer of development organisations including VSO and Tearfund- recently announced its plan to back a proposal to fund the creation… Listen ⇢
Executive Director, Peter Apps.
Peter Apps is executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21), a global defence columnist for Reuters and presenter of the “Facing Coming Storms” global defence podcast from PS21 and the British Army’s think tank the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research (CHACR).
