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 …
Britain’s relationship with the Middle East has been one of the most enduring yet strangely unsettled parts of its foreign policy since the end of the Second World War, and maybe even before that if one looks at the shadows of empire that lingered too long. From the slow dismantling of its imperial presence to …
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 …
It is with a heavy heart that the United Kingdom must now reckon with sustained confrontation from modern revisionist powers—some far larger than itself, some far more underhanded. The ‘grey zone’ of warfare has been stretched in scope and in potential for tenacity; tensions rise unreconciled by any commensurate appetite for escalation, while technological advance …
Photo: Lauren Hurley/No 10 Downing Street The United Kingdom finds itself torn between its closest allies. Whether it’s an increasingly subsidiary and powerless role compared to the United States or the difficult political relationship with the European Union, the ability to exert influence in the diplomatic sphere is strained. If future American administrations perceive any …