Departures with Robert Amsterdam
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Departures is a literary podcast featuring half-hour interviews with nonfiction authors covering a diverse range of subjects, from geopolitics to law, to history, international affairs, and current events. Hosted by international lawyer Robert Amsterdam, founder of Amsterdam & Partners LLP, Departures brings listeners into casual but revealing conversations with our favorite authors, bringing light to new ideas, arguments, and issues deserving of consideration outside of the usual narratives of the news cycle.
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Africa's unique ideological history and its impact on unity
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May 22, 2025 |
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How race and identity became sacred taboos
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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A discussion on religious freedom with Robert Destro
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Identities, Rivalries, and Schisms in the modern Middle East
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Why Sanctions Often Backfire
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Our relationship with the past is in big trouble
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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The ignominious track record of Africa's foreign saviors
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Reconsidering the Western Response to China's Global Rise
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Kant, Borges, Heisenberg and the Nature of Observation and Knowledge
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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How the Ukraine war has altered the direction of globalization
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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A pivotal election brings uncertainty to Japan
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Fears, miscalculations, and mistakes which led to the war in Ukraine
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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The great rebalancing of the West
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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How the Congolese view their relationship to the global big tech supply chain
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Russia's burning ambition for global power
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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The beginning of the end of the old Ottoman world order
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Ukraine and its challenges to the international system
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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When nothing is important, everything is at risk
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May 22, 2024 |
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A Bold New Era for Japan
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May 11, 2024 |
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The devastating human toll of Russia's war in Ukraine
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May 02, 2024 |
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Vienna and the birth of the knowledge economy
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May 01, 2024 |
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How the Ukrainian Left Views the War
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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The Future of Taiwan's Silicon Shield
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Understanding the Ukraine War through the Lens of Greek Tragedy
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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You can't understand the Soviet system without understanding the daily lives of its people
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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The enduring legacy of the Great Arab Revolt
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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When China gave up on its peaceful rise
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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The more a Canadian academic learned about China, the less the West wanted to hear
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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How a decade of street protests changed the world
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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The US is trying to get the Cold War band back together
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The Economic Aims of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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An assassination, a coup, and thwarted independence in Congo, 1960
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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What does the post-neoliberal world order look like?
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Crisis at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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A dispatch from Israel
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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What We Know 50 Years after the Yom Kippur War
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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The weaponization of memory and nostalgia in Russia
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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The fragile ties that bind Eastern Europe
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The legal wasteland of UN sanctions
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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The fallacy of empires
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Inside the mind of George F. Kennan
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Is China challenging the world order or contributing to its stability?
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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MAGA Stands for 'Make Attorneys Get Attorneys'
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Russia's fragile but important presence in Africa
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May 26, 2023 |
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The brazen deceptions of wartime collaborators
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May 17, 2023 |
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A toolkit for defeating dictatorships
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Zelensky: From TV president to real president
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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The evolving history of the Holocaust
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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The legal cases that birthed the civil rights movement
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The Murderous Ideology of Franco's Spain
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Surviving Putin
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Italy's indulgent nostalgia for Mussolini
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Nobody wants a war fought over the South China Sea
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Manipulating Information and faking democracy
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Playing in the grey in the shadow economy
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Inside the Kremlin Groupthink that led Russia into a disastrous war
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Drinking, sex, and journalism on the cusp of WWII
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Endgame for Vladimir Putin?
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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There is nothing inevitable about the war in Ukraine
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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China's ambitious future in Central Asia
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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In China's political history, numbers don't always add up
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Mafias matter, especially with state formation
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Departures LIVE on Russia, Ukraine, and the future of the rules-based order
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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How supply chain logistics are inseparable from daily life in Central Africa
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Not a "Red Wave," but a Ripple
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Critical minerals and conflict in the DRC
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Xi's the one
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Oct 29, 2022 |
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How we misunderstood China before Xi
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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The reactive sequence of authoritarian regimes
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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US domestic instability is undermining its global influence
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Colonialism does not define Africa
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Successions in the wake of Mao and Stalin
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Why democracies must prepare for political violence
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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Why authoritarians prefer to be surrounded by incompetence
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Tyranny and autocracy are on a winning streak
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Historical memory on trial
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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The founding mythology of global economic governance
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Zimbabwe's Democracy Deficit
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Thugs for hire: How China enlists nonstate actors to do the dirty work
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Cyber warfare and the risk of regulatory failure
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May 11, 2022 |
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Modern Central Asia: empires, revolutions, and the remaking of societies
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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The economic underpinnings of global disorder
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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From Syria to Ukraine, the era of decivilization
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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From the frontlines of Kyiv, Dispatch #2
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Congo's invisible war
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Four days that changed the course of World War II
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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The past is a foreign country
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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So little time, so many kinds of wars to wage
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Oil, gas, and coal as the lifeblood of the Russian polity
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Summiting Everest for climate change
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Irregular warfare is becoming the new regular
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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The rise of the Beijing consensus
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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We aren't ready for the weaponization of space
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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What Uganda shows us about modern authoritarianism
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Preparing for the geopolitical conflicts of tomorrow
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Trust, Credibility, and COP26
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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One spy's burden of accountability
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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That feeling when we are between world orders
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Oct 08, 2021 |
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Punctuated equilibrium: how the 1490-1530 period changed the world
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Despite British colonialism, Nigeria is a success story
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Sep 15, 2021 |