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Take Five - 11 July 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 anti-Western sentiments, how the far-right manipulates politics and is Europe in trouble with their attitudes to defence?

  1. The Rio summit showed that BRICS is less anti-Western than Russia would like it to be by Natalie Sabanadze for Chatham House.
  2. Gaza under Siege by Tareq Baconi for The London Review of Books.
  3. (Podcast) How Europe dropped the ball on its own defence with Gemma Ware for The Conversation Weekly.
  4. Ruto Once Courted Kenya’s Youth. Now He’s Trying to Silence Them by Nanjala Nyabola for World Politics Review.
  5. Are grooming gangs the far right’s golden goose? by Louise Raw for Open Democracy.