Take Five - 5 September 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 are going global, looking at Africa, the US, Thailand, Cambodia, Russia and the climate crisis!
- Three reasons why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war by Duncan Depledge for The Conversation.
- Guns and Bibles: How US radicalisation threatens African states’ security by Āryā Jeipea Karijo, Haley McEwen, Joy Asasira and Olabukunola Williams for OpenDemocracy.
- (Podcast) The UK's 2025 Carrier Strike Group Deployment and Britain’s Indo-Pacific Tilt by Global Security Briefing from RUSI.
- Thai-Cambodian Border Clashes Help Revive Hun Sen’s Power by Mike Rattanasengchanh and Joshua Kurlantzick, for Council on Foreign Relations.
- Why Putin is winning by Jennifer Kavanagh for The Responsible Statecraft.
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