Take Five - 12 December 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 look at diplomacy and the changing roles of diplomats, the US outside influence and China's role as a global superpower.
- The age of unipolar diplomacy is coming to an end by Jonathan Whittall for Al Jazeera.
- Ukraine’s peace talks reveal the risks of replacing diplomats with dealmakers by Alexandros Koutsoukis for The Conversation UK.
- Detrimental Outside Influence by Tom Stevenson for London Review of Books.
- US NATO ambassador on US security strategy: is Europe ‘a dynamic economy that can grow, or is it just a museum?’ by Bronwen Maddox and Matthew Whitaker for Chatham House.
- How China Wins the Future by Elizabeth Economy for Foreign Affairs.
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