Take Five - 25 July 2025

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 how the world has transformed since October 7, do we need to transform how we think and what really is China’s game plan?

1. The West in the age of Westlessness by Samir Puri for Engelsberg Ideas.
2. The World since 7 October by Adam Shatz for The London Review of Books.
3. (Podcast) Illiberal land: Hungary's empire of ideas by The Slow Newscast from Tortoise Media.
4. The Digital War on Women Peacemakers: Why This Moment Calls for Doubling Down on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda by Kristina Wilfore for Council on Foreign Relations.
5. China’s strategy? Let Trump cook by Ishaan Tharoor for The Washington Post.