Take Five - 27 June 2025
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In our fortnightly feature, Director/CEO Juliet Dryden and Communications Intern Eve Harrison-Taylor bring you their top five IR-related podcasts and readings from the past two weeks. 'Take five' to explore our best of the best.
In this week's Take Five we explore the Middle East's continuing instability, how Europe is still navigating Trump and are our political systems ever really neutral?
- Why have so few atrocities ever been recognised as genocide? by James Sweeney for The Conversation.
- Did Trump just dump the Ukraine War into the Europeans' lap by Ian Proud for The Responsible Statecraft.
- Peace in Theory by Michelle Gavin for Council on Foreign Relations.
- Iraq’s fragile stability is threatened by a shifting Middle Eastern order by Renad Mansour for Chatham House.
- US sanctions on ICC judges highlight pursuit of selective justice by Michael Gumisiriza for Open Democracy.
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