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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 ⇢
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PS21 update week ending July 15
Great PS21 discussion on Tuesday this week on the world after the referendum. Since then, of course, we’ve had both a new Prime Minister and, slightly more controversially, a new Foreign Secretary. It will be fascinating to see where things go from here. Three columns of mine on Reuters.com in… Listen ⇢
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Friendship & Cooperation? – India’s African Strategy
William Farmer is a recent graduate from King’s College London, specializing in Postcolonial Africa and political risk. In its relations with the African continent, the Indian state claims that historical and cultural commonalities between the two naturally engender unique and mutually-beneficial foreign relations. The main tenets of such solidarity… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update week ending July 1
The increasingly brutal fallout of the Brexit vote continues, but we are moving towards some degree of clarity on who is going to wind up running the country, at least in the short term – probably, anyhow. At the beginning of last week, I wrote a piece for Reuters suggesting… Listen ⇢
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Exploiting the Electorate: Lessons from Brexit
Caitlin Vito is a research Events Administrator at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS); Formerly at NATO, Political Affairs and Security Policy Division On June 16th British Member of Parliament Jo Cox was shot and killed by one of her own constituents. In the midst of outpourings of grief and… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update – Brexit special
“That’s it, we’re out,” said Jonn Elledge shortly after midnight when they announced the result from Wolverhampton. It’s been a fascinating period. Last week, a couple of days before the vote, I wrote a column for Reuters pondering what it would take to restore the divisions in the country after… 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).
