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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 ⇢
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PS21 Update: Week Ending September 4
On Wednesday, PS21 held a discussion hosted by the UK Cabinet Office, looking at the intersection of markets and geopolitics. Richard Mably chaired the discussion with Emad Mostaque, Tina Fordham, Mike Dolan and Holger Schmieding. After the event, PS21 global fellow Gwenn Laine interviewed Emad Mostaque about the current market… Listen ⇢
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When markets meet geopolitics: an interview with Emad Mostaque
On September 2, 2015, PS21 interviewed Emad Mostaque, strategist at Ecstrat, on the implication of the stock market crisis in China and Greece’s sovereign debt crisis on the global economy. Listen ⇢
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How to fight – and win – the two-front war facing the political risk industry
To win the internal war facing the industry, political risk firms need to invest in their analysts. It sounds easy enough, but many firms will make poor investments, like suggesting team building exercises and picnics. These firms will lose the war. Listen ⇢
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The Deflation Shock: Geopolitical Ramifications of the Global Commodity Price Drop
Deflation driven by loss of global demand like this is not easy to combat, as the Chinese are now realising. For commodity prices to be where they are now, it is clear that the world as led by China is suffering a slump in demand, which suggests that economic growth… 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).
