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Take Five - 6 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 South Korea election importance, Egypts energy dependency and a potential repeat of the past?

  1. Duty Calls: Trump’s Tariffs and the Stakes of Korea’s Snap Election by Darcie Draudt-Véjares for The Council on Foreign Relations.
  2. Egypt's energy gamble has left it beholden to Israel by Elfadil Ibrahimfor for The Responsible Statecraft.
  3. (Podcast) Can Illiberal Peace Bring Stability to the Middle East? by Neil Melvin for Global Security Briefing by The Royal United Services Institute.
  4. Feudalism is our Future. What the next Dark Ages could look like by Cullen Murphy for The Atlantic.
  5. Martinelli’s Escape Is Testing Panama’s Government—and Its Democracy by Cristina Guevara for World Politics Review.