POLICY AND PRACTICE - Being Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw was Foreign Secretary in the Blair government from 2001 to 2006. His five years at the Foreign Office saw him grappling with every conflict zone from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the accession ...
14 Jan 20211h 23min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Populism and the Rise of Autocracy
To discuss these worldwide trends, how to counter them, and how worried we should be about a populist rise in the UK, we are joined by three international experts:Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of...
4 Des 20201h 9min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - How should we deal with statues of racists and what should we do in our public space instead?
Last summer, we saw a statue of Bristol slave trader, Edward Colston, thrown in the harbour by Black Lives Matters protesters. Other statues of racist, colonial or controversial figures have also been...
27 Nov 20201h 26min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - How can the development sector become more equitable?
Speakers:Lorriann Robinson is the founder and Director of The Advocacy Team, a consultancy practice providing policy, advocacy & campaigning services to international organisations. She is the co-foun...
20 Nov 20201h 14min
THE CENTRE ON US POLITICS - A Retrospective on the 2020 US Elections
With the dust finally settling on one of the highest stakes US elections in recent memory, pollsters, pundits, academics, and policymakers are looking to make sense of what happened. What are the key ...
17 Nov 20201h 24min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - "We wanted flying cars instead we got 140 characters"
The words the future of conflict triggers shiny images of technology overtaking the battlefield and an extreme revolution in military affairs. But how real is the hype about the disruption to defence...
5 Nov 20201h 23min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - What can we expect from the 2020 US presidential election?
Speakers:Brian Klaas is a political scientist at UCL and a weekly columnist for the Washington Post. He has written three books: The Despot's Accomplice (Oxford University Press), The Despot's Apprent...
29 Okt 20201h 27min
POLICY AND PRACTICE - Protecting Future Generations
To discuss this we have four experts who have all been involved in writing and thinking about this: Prof Jonathan Boston from New Zealand had a Fulbright Fellowship to do comparative research on Gover...
23 Okt 20201h 23min
