Take Five - 31 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 Trump's global influence from Africa to the Middle East.
- The rise and fall of globalisation: battle to be top dog by Steve Schifferes for The Conversation.
- Trump Teaches Canada What It Means to be a U.S. Ally Now By David Frum for The Atlantic .
- (Podcast) How to advance Trump's Gaza plan from magical thinking to lasting peace by Bronwen Maddox for Independent Thinking.
- Sudan's bloody war is immune to Trump's art of the deal by Elfadil Ibrahim for Responsible Statecraft.
- Structure Trumps Agency in the U.S.-China Relationship by Mira Rapp-Hooper for Foreign Affairs.
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