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Take Five - 28 March 2025

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In our fortnightly feature, Director/CEO Juliet Dryden and Communications Intern Eve Harrison-Taylor 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 rise of the multipolar world order, Gulf nations engagement with Africa, and the science behind autocracy!

  1. (Podcast) Israel Goes Back to War in Gaza - Hold Your Fire! podcast from the International Crisis Group.
  2. Diversification nations: The Gulf way to engage with Africa by Maddalena Procopio and Corrado Čok for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
  3. The paradox of democracy’s success: behavioural science helps explain why we miss autocratic red flags - by Ralph Hertwig and Stephan Lewandowsky for The Conversation.
  4. (Podcast) The rise of the multipolar world order - These Times podcast from UnHerd.
  5. The World Could Use a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty by Charli Carpenter for The World Politics Review.