Crisis in the Sahel: the end of Western intervention and the collapse of Mali

Crisis in the Sahel: the end of Western intervention and the collapse of Mali

Mali, a vast country larger than most of Western Europe added together is a country whose central authority has largely collapsed and whose capital city Bamako is surrounded by radical Islamist militants. There seems to be a pattern here, with Syria and Afghanistan having fallen as Western countries lose interest. As with Syria, the corrupt Malian government had allied itself with Russia, apparently to little effect. I spoke to Tessa Devereaux of SOAS about Mali and the wider Sahel, and what it means for all of us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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RUSI/Disorder Partnership: Ransomware in our Age of Disorder

RUSI/Disorder Partnership: Ransomware in our Age of Disorder

Read RUSI piece The Rise of Ransomware as a National Security Threat: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/organised-cybercrime-rise-ransomware-national-security-threat   Rea...

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The Crisis in The Atlantic Alliance ep 2

The Crisis in The Atlantic Alliance ep 2

The impact on Central and Eastern Europe, with Jonathan TerraCheck out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substack at arthursnell.substack.com and/or follow me on...

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The Crisis in the Atlantic Alliance

The Crisis in the Atlantic Alliance

The Transatlantic Alliance is coming to an end. I discuss this with academic and journalist Jonathan Terra. Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substack ...

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Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of migrant labourers in the Gulf

Blood, toil, tears, and sweat: the plight of migrant labourers in the Gulf

Every year, tens of thousands of labourers in the wealth countries of the Gulf, most of them migrants from South Asia, die in unsafe working conditions on construction sites. As the GCC states pour en...

24 Maalis 202557min

Myanmar: the Unfolding Civil War

Myanmar: the Unfolding Civil War

For the past 4 years, Myanmar has experienced an ever more serious civil war, which now threatens the ruling military junta in Naypyitaw. I spoke to Ronan Lee about this little-reported conflict. You ...

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What does the collapsing global order mean for the world beyond the West?

What does the collapsing global order mean for the world beyond the West?

Samir Puri of Chatham House is the author of Westlessness, a book about the post-Western world. The book came out last year but the geopolitical setting that he examines is one that is rapidly emergin...

7 Maalis 202545min

How the extremism of our age is being fed by disinformation

How the extremism of our age is being fed by disinformation

The role of disinformation in our current world, whether feeding the false allegations put out by Trump, the lies spread online by Elon Musk, or the over-reliance on social media for news coverage, is...

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The latest from Kyiv: what does John Sweeney make of what's being going on?

The latest from Kyiv: what does John Sweeney make of what's being going on?

I spoke to the man in the lucky orange hat, everyone's favourite war correspondent John Sweeney about the latest developments from Kyiv in this week of extraordinary events relating to Ukraine. Find J...

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