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Take Five - 14 February 2025

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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.

In this week's Take Five, we explore the growing AI arms race, a potential new Cold War, Ukraine, and tariffs!

  1. DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake by Peter Bloom for The Conversation
  2. The global pursuit of sovereign AI is the 21st century's arms race  LSE Business Review by Mairéad Pratschke for The LSE Business Review Blog
  3. (Podcast) Trump's Tariff War– These Times Podcast
  4. The 'rivalry peril' with China: toxic cold war is where we are headed by Daniel Larison for Responsible Statecraft
  5. Ukraine’s Daunting Choice: Trading Its Land and People for Future Security by Ralph Clem, Erik Herron, Timothy Hoheneder, and Khrystyna Pelchar for War on the Rocks