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PS21 Update Week Ending April 15
A couple of great events coming up next week, particularly one on European energy security in Washington DC on Tuesday and Wednesday’s joint networking drinks in London with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. In London this week, Gwenn Laine chaired an excellent discussion on social media and politics in the aftermath… Listen ⇢
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Imagining 2030: Sobering Thoughts from Latin America
Imagining 2030 is a series in which PS21 writers describe the world as they see it in 14 years time. Listen ⇢
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PS21 Update week ending April 8
Two great events this week, one on Arctic geopolitics in London and the second on counterterrorism and intelligence in Europe with former MI6 deputy chief Nigel Inkster in Washington DC. The Arctic is also the topic for this week’s Imagining 2030 offering. On Reuters.com, meanwhile, I had two columns. The first looks… Listen ⇢
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PS21 Update Week Ending April 1
We are pushing this e-mail out a day early on this occasion to draw your attention to two events in particular next week. The first is an excellent discussion on the future of the Arctic in Whitehall on Monday. Places are limited but it should be a great discussion. We also… Listen ⇢
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Europe might be doomed. But Britain shouldn’t leave now.
Europe faces a perfect storm of crises on a scale not seen since World War Two. Endless streams of migrants are testing political cohesion. The euro zone crisis remains deeply unresolved, with the richer north and poorer south eyeing each other suspectly. Listen ⇢
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We need the 45th president to continue normalizing relations with Cuba
We witnessed history last week when U.S. President Barack Obama visited Cuba- the first time a sitting president had visited in 90 years. Listen ⇢
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Imagining 2030: Merkel’s Kinder
Imagining 2030 is a series in which PS21 writers describe the world as they see it in 14 years time. Listen ⇢
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PS21 Update Week Ending March 25
Greetings all. A week obviously overshadowed by events in Brussels. You can read my quick analysis on the attack from Tuesday in my Reuters column here. For a relatively depressing take on Al events in the Middle East might progress from here, it’s definitely worth reading Hayat Alvi‘s contribution to our… Listen ⇢
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How the Brussels attacks could destabilize Europe
In many ways, the attacks in Brussels today had a sick air of inevitability. Ever since the Paris attacks on November 13, the Belgian capital has been seen as the likely next target. What happened on Tuesday clearly shows the limits of Belgium’s much-criticized security and surveillance systems. 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).
