Take Five - 17 January 2025

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 the second Take Five of 2025, we look a a broad range of issues from the issues facing the new Ghanaian government, the global AI race, Syrian sanctions, misinformation, and the influence of Musk:

1. Ghana’s new president faces tough regional security problems: why he’s well-placed to tackle them by Muhammad Dan Suleiman for The Conversation 
2. (Podcast) Why People Believe Misinformation in War - Global Dispatches 
3. Elon Musk is elevating Trump’s foreign policy of deliberate disruption to a new level by Amelia Hadfield for The Conversation
4. America Is Winning the Race for Global AI Primacy—For Now by Colin H. Kahl for Foreign Affairs
5. Reevaluating the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 by Ahmad Khalil for Global Policy Journal

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