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Syria, Yemen, Libya – one factor unites these failed states, and it isn’t religion
As world leaders gather in Paris this week to address climate change, they will labor under the shadow of recent attacks by Islamic State. Yet as they think about climate issues, they should remember that the connection between climate change and Islamic State – and more broadly, between climate change… Listen ⇢
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Why America Should Take Mideast Refugees
Whether or not we want to acknowledge it, the facts are definitive. We were party to the creation of the power vacuum that enabled militant groups in the Middle East to come to power, and that have displaced millions in the years since the start of the Syrian civil war.… Listen ⇢
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‘Womenomics’ in Japan
In response to this stalled development of women in the workforce, Prime Minister Abe pledged to create a society in which ‘all women can shine’. He acknowledged that women had long been an under-utilised resource in the Japanese economy and promised to boost female labour participation rates, increase the presence… Listen ⇢
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The forgotten women and children of Iraq
The devastating consequences of unregistered marriages for Iraqi women and children are leaving many Iraqis without basic state protection. The potential security implications reach far beyond Iraq’s borders. Listen ⇢
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Australia: sending refugees to Kyrgyzstan?
Asylum seekers found to be refugees in the Australian-run detention centres on the Pacific Island state of Nauru and on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) need to be resettled, and Australia seems to be running out of options of where to send them. Listen ⇢
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PS21 update: week ending Nov 27
– Hi all, Another great week for PS21. We held a wide-ranging discussion with the UK Cabinet Office in London on Narrative and Conflict. A fascinating topic and a truly great panel: former British Director Special Forces Lt-Gen Sir Graeme Lamb, former GCHQ official John Bassett, and Middle East Specialist… Listen ⇢
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In Kurdistan, Islamic State is already losing
Asha Castleberry is a former US Army Officer who served in the campaign against Islamic State in Iraq in 2014. She is now a Global Fellow for PS21. Mere hours before the Paris attack on 13th November, Kurdish Pashmerga forces ousted Islamic State fighters from the northern Iraqi town… Listen ⇢
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The curious rebirth of Zoroastrianism in Iraqi Kurdistan
Against the backdrop of Islamic State, a much older religion stages a revival in Iraqi Kurdistan. Listen ⇢
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In strategy on ISIS, a failure of vision
These proposals are remarkable not because they are extreme or poorly thought out (which they often are). Rather, they are remarkable because they burst into a vacuum of ideas for responding to ISIS or to a major terrorist action in a western capital. 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).
