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Take Five - 5 December 2024

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In our fortnightly feature, Director/CEO Juliet Dryden and Communications Intern Nathan Sadd bring you their top five IR-related podcasts and readings from the past two weeks. 'Take five' to explore our best of the best.

This fortnight we explore some insights into Trump and the US, Right Wing popular culture, Palestinian history, the North Korea-Russia partnership, and a great piece on perceptions of nuclear war: 

  1. Exquisite Americana: Trump and US Power by Tom Stevenson for The London Review of Books
  2. (Podcast) Is Pop Culture Right Wing?–These Times
  3. (Podcast) "The first foothold in a much broader liberation" w/ Tareq Baconi on The Makdisi Street podcast
  4. North Korea and Russia’s dangerous partnership by Dr Edward Howell for Chatham House
  5. Why some countries are more likely to believe nuclear war won’t happen to them by Geoff Beattie for The Conversation