Take Five - 17 October 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 a variety of topics from AI to our global institutions and why they are failing!
- Why climate summits fail – and three ways to save them by Francesco Grillo for The Conversation.
- At the ICC by Alex de Waal for London Review of Books .
- (Podcast) Taiwan’s Strategic Balancing Act Amid US-China Tensions by Global Security Briefing from RUSI.
- The End of Cybersecurity: America’s Digital Defenses Are Failing but AI Can Save Them by Jen Easterly for Foreign Affairs.
- The European Political Community can be more than an ‘unidentified political object’ by Sébastien Maillard for Chatham House.
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