Take Five - 28 November 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 have everything from climate finance to Gen Z protests around the world.
- How Global Gen Z Protests Have Shocked and Transformed Governments by Clara Fong for Council on Foreign Relations.
- The Paradox of Europe’s Trumpian Right by Ivan Krastev for Foreign Affairs.
- China’s ‘smart authoritarianism’ has upended ideas about autocracies’ limitations. The West must cooperate to respond by Jennifer Lind for Chatham House.
- Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia by Simon Shuster for The Atlantic.
- How climate finance to help poor countries became a global shell game – donors have counted fossil fuel projects, airports and even ice cream shops by Shannon Gibson for The Conversation US.
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