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PS21 update week ending September 31
Dear all, Hoping this finds you well. Many thanks to those of you who made it to our drinks in London last week – a good crowd, and some interesting discussions. A couple of interesting events below. Firstly we have a really fantastic panel coming up next Monday on changing… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update weekending Sept 24
Moderated two fascinating discussions last week, one for PS21 on migration, politics and security in Europe and the other at New Scientist Live on science and foreign policy for UK Foreign Office think tank Wilton Park. Both really underlined just how much flux there is in the global system at… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update weekending September 9
Many thanks to British Army Headquarters in Andover for hosting a truly excellent PS21 discussion last night – unfortunately only open to serving personnel – on the changing nature of conflict. A really great panel – including PS21 global fellow Erik Lin Greenburg and former UK Director Special Forces Lt-Gen… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update weekending August 26
Greetings all, The summer is drawing to a close, and will greatly looking forward to this evening’s discussion in Whitehall with Financial Times global affairs columnistGideon Rachman [sadly sold out]. Can we have some really great events planned for the autumn, starting with a fascinating discussion only Baltic States next… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update week ending August 19
Another truly excellent PS21 discussion last week on the changing counterterrorism picture. Many thanks to all those attending – particularly our panelists, of course – as well as to the UK Cabinet Office for hosting. I believe some of the hardier attendees were still continuing the discussion in a restaurant… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update week ending August 5
Apologies for the delayed update this week – was traveling in Paris last week which was a fascinating experience but inevitably nudged me a little behind. Over the last 10 days, we’ve had some great updates on the PS21 website including this look at the current situation in the South… Listen ⇢
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South China Sea : The Saga continues
Portion of a Qing scroll on battling 19th Century piracy in the South China Sea (Wikipedia) Berivan Dilan is a recent graduate from Maastricht University in International Relations, and is starting an MSc in International Political Economy at LSE. On 12th July 2016, the International Tribunal for the Law… Listen ⇢
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Imagining 2030: Out of a desert
Imagining 2030 is a series in which PS21 writers describe the world as they see it in 14 years time. Jorge Vanstreels writes on the Middle East and Foreign Policy for a variety of publications and is based in Belgium. His regional travels have led him through the West Bank, the… Listen ⇢
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Turkey coup puts West an awkward position
Peter Apps is Reuters global affairs columnist and executive director of PS21. Views are his own. Follow him on Twitter If exhausted and overstretched US and European officials could have done without one thing this weekend, it would have been a military coup in Turkey. Turkey had remained relatively stable… 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).
