Forged in the fires of the First World War, collective security was a new idea to manage geopolitics advocated by the US President Woodrow Wilson. Promoted as a way to stabilise international relations its suporters claimed that that the world would be safer and the tragedy of future world crisis could be avoided. This first part focusses on its orgins and competition with significant exploration of the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919.

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How did Britain come to conquer Palestine during the First World War? We journey back to the Great War in this informative podcast to consider the British military campaign to oust the Ottoman Empire from the holy land and seize Jerusalem by Christmas 1917. This first part examines the significant backstory to the invasion, the skirmishing in the Sinai peninsula and the tensions in war strategy between Cairo and London. The Australian participation, the leadership of Sir Edmund Allenby and the strengths and weaknesses of the Turkish army are covered in detail.

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Imperialism was once the main paradigm of foreign policy and this introductory podcast for beginners seeks to explain why.

For over five millennia nations and states would seek to ruthlessly dominate their opponents, and no post-agrarian culture was immune from the temptations of imperial practice. Using war and colonisation, states acted without restraint.

But by the 20th Century imperialism was under serious attack s a state practice. This podcast explores why old imperialism became so unfashionable.

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