Take Five - 3 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 first Take Five of 2025, we look forward to the short and long term future:

1. What We’re Watching Around the Globe in 2025  by Michael Froman for the Council on Foreign Relations
2. What next for Syria? The danger of violence in post-war transitions by Chelsea Johnson for The Conversation
3. New Years resolution? Taking the US-China heat down a notch by Michael D. Swain for Responsible Statecraft
4. Trump wants China’s help in making peace in Ukraine – he’s unlikely to get it by Stefan Wolff & Tetyana Malyarenko for The Conversation

5. (Podcast) Is the World Ready for the Population Bust? Foreign Affairs Podcast

    

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