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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 ⇢
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PS21 update week ending June 17
A difficult and depressing week in politics on both sides of the Atlantic, with the Orlando shooting last Sunday and then Thursdays shocking news of the death of British MP Jo Cox. in both countries, politics seems as polarized as at any point in recent history. Exactly how that happened… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update week ending June 11
Two excellent discussions this week, one with counterterrorism expert Richard Barrett at the Cabinet Office in London and a second on potential futures for US foreign policy with an expert panel in Washington DC. As always, some great expertise on display and some really good discussions. Two more events coming… Listen ⇢
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PS21 update week ending June 4
Greetings from London, where after what feels like – and actually is – a month of almost continual traveling myself and assistants are now happily ensconced in an apartment in London’s Bankside just by Shakespeare’s Globe. Thanks to some very dedicated work by all London volunteers, PS21 is doing very… Listen ⇢
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PS21 Update Week Ending May 27
Dear all, Firstly, apologies for PS21 missing its weekly email. Until the middle of the week, I was still slogging my way across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2. Came ashore straight into three days with the British Army who, in their infinite wisdom, have just commissioned me as… 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).
