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Take five - 27 September 2024

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In our fortnightly feature, Director/CEO Juliet Dryden and Communications Intern Dominic Hart 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 'Take Five' on the escalating tensions in the Middle East and the implications of the Kursk Offensive for Russian military strategy:

  1. Israel is gambling Hezbollah will crumple but it faces a well-armed, angry enemy by Jeremy Bowen for BBC News
  2. Israel and Hezbollah Are Escalating Toward Catastrophe: How to Avert a Larger War That Neither Side Should Want by Dana Stroul for Foreign Affairs
  3. (Podcast) Missile diplomacy: What is a winning strategy in Ukraine?  for Independent Thinking
  4. Why Putin has resisted using Ukraine’s Kursk offensive to call for greater Russian sacrifices by Jennifer Mathers for The Conversation
  5. (Podcast) How are the Crises in the Middle East Reshaping the Region? for RUSI Security Briefing