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Oman’s independent foreign policy: a triumph for global diplomacy
Regardless of the geopolitical challenges in a volatile region, Muscat is gaining credibility as a regional peacemaker. Listen ⇢
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The death of Reyaad Khan
Outside the circle of his friends and family there will be few tears shed at the death of Reyaad Khan, a 21 year old from Wales, targeted and killed in Syria by the RAF on 21 August. Listen ⇢
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The neuroscience of Jeremy Corbyn
There’s a simple theory which helps explain why he won — and why he’ll probably lose. Listen ⇢
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Roundup: Our top 5 posts on defense and security
With the imminent publication of the UK Strategic Defence and Security Review, issues of national and global security have been at the forefront of conversations on foreign policy. Here are our top picks to learn more. Listen ⇢
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PS21 Update: Week Ending September 11
Yesterday in London we held another successful event, hosted by the European Interagency Security Forum, looking at lessons learned from the Nepal earthquake and other recent humanitarian disasters. Listen ⇢
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100 days into his presidency, Nigeria’s Muhammadu Buhari faces serious challenges
Quite bizarrely, Buhari has given the military a deadline to defeat Boko Haram by the end of the year. In truth, ‘defeat’ in an absolute sense is prospectively bleak, if not unachievable in the medium term. Listen ⇢
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An insider’s view of government: a conversation with Ari Ratner
On September 4, 2015, Gwenn Laine and Arie Kuipers interviewed PS21 board member and founder of Inside Revolution Ari Ratner about his time in the US government. Listen ⇢
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Not with a bang, but a white paper: How British power could fall apart this autumn
In the words of retired Major-General Jonathan Shaw: ‘I judge that Britain is incapable of doing a Strategic Defence and Security Review; it lacks the culture and institutions required for the task’. Most agree that this is because ‘strategy’ itself is a lost art in Britain, and has no accepted… Listen ⇢
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Why is the regulatory system failing?
If the proverbial Martian were to land on Planet Earth today, as part of their gap year ‘Interplanetary cultural studies’ programme, the report that they would send back at the end of their stay would undoubtedly comment on that fact that–at least to an educated observer–it seems that London, the… 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).
