International Intrigue Audio Edition

International Intrigue Audio Edition

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International Intrigue Audio Edition episodes

  • 💬 The Q & A Edition!

    Welcome to the final edition of International Intrigue ‘1.0’. If you’re a first time reader, or if you missed our announcement last Friday, things are about to change around here, and we couldn't be more excited about what’s ahead.


    As promised, this week we bring you a very special Q & A edition. We received ~25 questions via email and Twitter, so we could only pick some of them to answer.

    Highlights include:

    • What is the biggest mistake in foreign policy in the 21st century?
    • What’s the significance of expelling an ambassador?
    • What’s your most embarrassing moment as a diplomat?

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      25 min
    • 🍆What is the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal all about?

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      This week we can’t help but cover the US-UK-Australia-but-most-definitely-not-France nuclear submarine deal:

      1. 🌊 What is it and why does it matter?
      2. 🙈 Was it a result of really bad diplomacy?


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        19 min
      3. 🍃 How the death of fossil fuels will change the world

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        COP 26 is just a few weeks away and climate change is a central focus at the UN General Assembly's gatherings this month. So this week, we bring you a special edition:

        • 🍃 The geopolitics of energy: how the transition to renewable energy will change the world.


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          17 min
        • Is US v China really 'Cold War 2.0'?

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          Lately we’re seeing the US-China relationship increasingly called a ‘Cold War 2.0’. So this week we ask:

          • 🥶 What does ‘Cold War 2.0’ really mean, and does it matter?

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            17 min
          • Your guide to the German election

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            This week's edition: Germany goes to the polls on 26 September and for the first time in 16 years their Chancellor will definitely not be Angela Merkel. This week we bring you:

            👉 Your guide to the German election: modern Germany, where it’s going, and why it matters to the world.

            1. 🍻 Part 1: The making of modern Germany
            2. 🥨 Part 2: The election and Germany’s future

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              17 min
            3. Special edition: Afghanistan, August 2021

              Hi hi hi!

              This week:

              Sadly, what’s going on in Afghanistan right now is just too big to ignore. But instead of rehashing what you've no doubt read elsewhere, this week we've decided to cover two angles you might not have thought about:

              • 📰 The ‘story’ of Afghanistan: how the mainstream media is covering the situation
              • 🙅‍♀️ To ban or not ban the Taliban? Silicon Valley execs have a new problem

                • Before we get started...

                Here’s a round up of content from the last week that we’ve found insightful:

                • For 40 years, Afghanistan has been the laboratory in which superpowers conduct their foreign policy experiments.
                • One senior ‘experimenter’, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, has admitted he got Afghanistan policy wrong, and reflects on why.
                • In that same vein, a former Pakistani Ambassador to the US thinks his country will regret its decades long support for the Taliban.
                • Commentators have been frothing about how China stands to benefit from the US withdrawal, but we're sceptical that China is actually that thrilled.
                • Putin is likely equally worried. Russia now has a power vacuum in its neighbourhood with significant potential for instability in the 'stan' countries.
                • As for the future of Afghanistan itself, it's sadly no surprise that the Taliban resurgence will affect women the most.
                • And Afghanistan’s already weak economy now has to deal with a run on the banks and the threat of inflation. Is it crypto's time to shine?
                • Lastly, an Australian videographer has decided to stay in Afghanistan. Check out Jordan Bryon's Instagram videos from the past week.


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                  19 min
                • The Pope's diplomacy | Mexico's iron river

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                  This week:

                  1. ⛪ The Pope's diplomacy: what can the Pope teach us?
                  2. 👩‍⚖️ Mexico vs Gunmakers: trying to dam the Iron River in a courtroom.

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                    19 min
                  3. Modern Tunisia | Antifragile foreign policy

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                    This week:

                    1. 🐫 Modern Tunisia: ten years after the Arab Spring.
                    2. 💪 Antifragile foreign policy: how to live in an unpredictable world.

                      3. Here's the antifragile video explainer I mentioned in the second story.

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                      17 min
                    3. Turkey's new empire | What even is volatility?

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                      This week:

                      1. 🦃 Turkey's new empire: is Erdoğan overreaching?
                      2. 🌪 Is the world getting more volatile? John answers a sceptical friend's questions.

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                        16 min
                      3. The future of Southeast Asia | How maths could prevent a war

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                        No unifying theme this week, in fact, two stories about as far apart as you can get:

                        1. 🍜 South East Asia: an overview of one of the world’s most important regions.
                        2. 🤯 Zero-knowledge proofs: how complex mathematics could prevent a war.

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                          18 min

                        About International Intrigue Audio Edition

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                        The audio version of the weekly International Intrigue newsletter. Each week, two former diplomats cover two important foreign affairs stories you might have missed, and tell you why they matter.…