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Walking the Tightrope: Turkey in the New Middle East
Printer-friendly version here. Enea Gjoza is a policy analyst specializing in foreign policy and criminal justice. He is also an intelligence research fellow with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy and a writer for Young Voices. The Arab Spring and subsequent events have dramatically re-arranged the power dynamics of the Middle East. Formerly… Listen ⇢
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Burying Richard III, England’s last post-apocalyptic warlord
The death in battle of a king known to history for badly needing a horse and for a hunched back, marked the end of the medieval period in England. His replacement, Henry Tudor — the victor at Bosworth Field in 1485 who became Henry VII — is seen as a… Listen ⇢
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Millions in US military equipment lost as Yemen heads down Syria’s path
Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2011 “Arab Spring,” every regime that the United States has supported in Iraq, Yemen and Libya — including Saleh’s — has resulted in a failed state, with no rule of law and a collapsed economy. Listen ⇢
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How Boko Haram changed Nigerian politics
Printer-friendly version here. Emmanuel Akinwotu is a student at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a writer/editor for Project for Study of the 21st Century. Boko Haram’s Islamist insurgency has thrust Nigerian politics into a foreign place. Politicians in this country are familiar with criticism but not scrutiny. But the… Listen ⇢
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Assessing the New US National Security Strategy
Printer-friendly version here. Ali Wyne is a contributing analyst at Wikistrat and a global fellow with PS21. Follow him on Twitter: @Ali_Wyne There is much to recommend the Obama administration’s new national-security strategy, which National Security Advisor Susan Rice launched at the Brookings Institution early last month. Released a little over… Listen ⇢
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PS21 at Two (Months)
By Peter Apps, PS21 Executive Director So, here we are – PS21 is now a breath-taking two months old. Over the last month, we’ve continued to build on the success of our first 30 days. On one front, that has meant doing more of the same – some great events,… Listen ⇢
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Breaking a decades-long trend, the world gets more violent
Peter Apps is Reuters global defence correspondent, currently on sabbatical as executive director of the Project for Study of the 21st Century (PS21). Follow him on Twitter at @pete_apps. If you were watching the news last year, it was hard to escape the impression the world was falling apart. Now… Listen ⇢
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On the Frontline of Terror: The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Arab Spring
Printer-friendly version here. Lara Fatah is co-founder and director of Zanraw Consulting and a Global Fellow at Project for the Study of the 21st Century. She is based in the Kurdish region of Iraq and tweets at @Lara_FFatah. Four years ago, when various Arab populations sprung into revolution, the initial… Listen ⇢
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Spike in Media Coverage of PS21 Study on Spike in Death Tolls
PS21’s study, published Wednesday, March 18, showed a more than 28% spike in deaths in the most violent conflicts in 2014, and has been making the rounds on various news outlets. It also ran on Reuters.com, TIME.com, Newsweek, the LA Times website, the Christian Science Monitor website, dailymail.co.uk and Al-Arabiya, as well 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).
