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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 ⇢
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Italy and Libya: Why Libyan stability is vital to PM Renzi’s career
By Lorenzo Holt- Lorenzo is an Italian-American journalist based in London. The Italian government is facing enough pressure to put its survival over the next few months into question. Depositors have withdrawn €78 billion from Italy’s central bank since May, while government attempts at bailing out Italy’s private banks have been… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update weekending Nov 27
Dear all, Perhaps thankfully, 2016 is now finally beginning to draw to an end. There is still plenty to watch, however – not least last week’s spectacle of a Russian aircraft carrier battle group making its way out the English Channel to bombard Syria. You can read my take… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update week ending Oct 21
A great discussion last night in Whitehall on Russia in the world with the excellent IHS country analyst Alex Kokcharov. Nothing quite like discussing the risk of great power tensions and conflict in the very room from which Winston Churchill announced the end of the second world war in Europe.… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update weekending October 7
Another really great discussion this afternoon, this time with the head of counterterrorism for the Kurdistan Regional Government on the counterterrorism picture in northern Iraq. Many thanks to the Cabinet Office/HM Treasury for hosting. Plenty going on as we head into a potentially frenetic boredom, with the UK departure from… 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).
