26- Afghan Peace Talks on Life Support
The Afghan Peace Talks started in September 2020, and with a second round having started in January it’s an interesting time to get an update on the process. PRIO Research Professor Kristian Berg Harp...
18 Feb 202122min
25- Coup in Myanmar: Protest, Art, Technology
On the morning of February 1, Myanmar awoke to a shock: the military had deposed the democratically elected party, the National League for Democracy. Leader Aung San Su Kyii is under arrest, and as ci...
10 Feb 202149min
24- Hong Kong's Uncertain Future
How did Hong Kong citizens wake up to the news of mass arrests on January 6, after such a long and engaging mass movement? Why wasn't that overwhelming support for democracy enough, and what will happ...
4 Feb 202127min
23- Coronavirus in the Nordic Countries: Where Things Went Right, and Wrong
The Nordic countries, and especially Scandinavia – Norway, Sweden, and Denmark – are often viewed as relatively similar, with robust welfare states, high standards of living, gender equality, and of c...
28 Jan 202134min
22- Are We Sleepwalking Into New Technological Futures?
In his essay "Technologies as Forms of Life", Langdon Winner writes about "technological sonambulism", the idea that people's ability to consider technology's effects is much slower than the pace of t...
21 Jan 202131min
21- "Like watching a democracy die": Two Researchers Contextualize What Happened in the US on January 6
Was it the "last, horrible and violent, dying gasp of an old, white supremacist racial order in the US", or the death of democracy? Håvard Nygård was shocked and horrified on January 6, but he says th...
13 Jan 202131min
Repost: 13- The Secret History of the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the PLO
November 4 marks the anniversary of the start of the Iranian hostage crisis. You might have learned about it as a major breakdown in the Iran-US relationship that persists today, or maybe you just wat...
7 Jan 202128min
Repost: 8- What's Tiktok Got to Do With It? US-China Relations and Security
If you’re over 18, it’s possible you’ve never touched TikTok. But this innocuous-seeming repository of amusing video has increasingly helped shape popular culture, as well as Chinese international rel...
31 Des 202020min
