The Gulf countries and a post-oil future?

The Gulf countries and a post-oil future?

How would the Gulf countries transition to a post oil economy? Could they do so and what happens if they don't? I spoke to Dr David Roberts, author of Security Politics in the Gulf Monarchies about this complex future. Check out our Bookshop.org affiliate site behindthelines and please sign up for my substack at arthursnell.substack.com and/or follow me on Bluesky @snellarthur.bsky.social. You can sometimes find me on other podcasts - most often Disorder which I am involved with in partnership with RUSI, the Royal United Services Institute, the world's oldest think tank. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ukraine and America: the great betrayal

Ukraine and America: the great betrayal

I spoke to Romeo Kokriatski, presenter of the Ukraine without the Hype podcast about recent events in his country, including the Trump betrayal. We mentioned Operation Sky Shield, a plan which you can...

5 Mai 20251h 1min

The Geopolitics of Climate: how Tuvalu is thinking about possible extinction

The Geopolitics of Climate: how Tuvalu is thinking about possible extinction

What does the climate crisis mean for sovereignty in a world where certain countries face existential risk? I spoke to Taukiei Kitara, a native of Tuvalu, about the case of low-lying Pacific Islands, ...

21 Apr 202548min

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...

15 Apr 202550min

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...

6 Apr 202553min

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 ...

28 Mar 20251h 2min

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 Mar 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 ...

14 Mar 20251h 5min

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 Mar 202545min

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