Take Five - 9 May 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 Germany's new political struggle, the complexities of the India and Pakistan conflict and, once again, Trump is back, and his stamp on global elections is immense.
- The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism by Derek Thompson for The Atlantic.
- What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker.
- (Podcast) First not past the post : Germany's chancellor shocker by Jason Palmer and Rosie Blau for The Intelligence by The Economist.
- Trump Is Making Authoritarianism a Tough Sell by Frida Ghitis for World Politics Review.
- Will India or Pakistan resort to the nuclear option? by Rajan Menon for The New Statesman.
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