Earlier this month, I was travelling down to London. There were a few items on the agenda: an interview lined up during the week, a crisis simulation hosted by RUSI, and enjoying time spent with friends paired with cold drinks and warm weather. While the latter held most of my attention, RUSI’s crisis simulation was …
Welcome to the British Institute of Global Affairs’ first big collaborative project. This was undertaken with Euro Prospects, a European policy publication, and aims to bridge the divide between the UK and Europe by showcasing a variety of approaches that can be undertaken on topics of shared interests. In the first edition of its kind, …
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Editor’s Note: This piece was uploaded under the editor’s name but was authored by a contributor identifying as David. In Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, de Tocqueville argued that American institutions are not simply held up by law, but through a multifaceted and complex relationship between the separation of powers, popular engagement in direct …
Welcome to the final episode in our series on Resilience! Having looked at what Resilience means; how it applies to both the state, society, and the private sector; and focusing on what Finland does so well, this last episode is a conversation about the UK and resilience. Joining us to explore this topic is Ed …
As we reach our penultimate episode for the series, we turn to a practitioner whose work before and during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has persevered in promoting culture as a form of national resilience. Agatha Gorski is the co-founder of the Shadows Project, a Kyiv-based NGO that protects and decolonises Ukrainian culture. Our conversation …
Throughout our conversations on Resilience, there is one country that is regularly touted as being the model for whole-of-society resilience and ‘Total Defence’: Finland. In this episode, we talk to Tom Woolmore, a Research Assistant for the Regional Resilience Project for the Centre for Statecraft and National Security and a Master’s graduate from King’s College …
Welcome back to the second week in our Resilience podcast. In this episode, BIGA sits down to talk with Nicholas Dungan, the CEO of CogitoPraxis – a European-based strategic consultancy firm whose work focuses on supporting clients to become ‘360 degrees resilience’. From his trans-Atlantic background spanning Stanford and Sciences Po, our conversation starts with …
Author’s Note: This piece was written as part of BIGA’s new partnership with EPIS, a student-led think tank in Europe who support discussion and debate from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. Be sure to check out their work! During a spring day in Washington D.C., in April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty was signed. …
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Welcome back to the BIGA podcast! As promised, we are aiming to post one season per quarter, so you can expect four seasons and four fascinating topics to explore this year! With a world that seems increasingly volatile, chaotic, and unpredictable there is one phrase that has found increasing traction in security circles: resilience. In …
As he began his speech, Prime Minister Starmer set out the dangers of a more threatening Russia with a stronger industrial base and the ability to employ malicious tactics below the threshold of war. Then there was a pause. Starmer had a small, wry smile as he said: “To break the convention of a thousand …