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Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell Behind The Lines Ep 5 - Libya and the Disordered World
Storm Daniel passed through the Mediterranean in early September, one of a bewildering number of extreme weather events in recent months. When it hit Libya on 10 September, torrential rainfall led to catastrophic floods in the Town of Derna. At the time of recording as many as 20,000 people are missing, feared dead. It was an example of the terrifying new reality of the climate crisis where entire cities can be wiped out by wildfires or floods, literally in a matter of hours… Arthur Snell and Jason Pack discuss, on Behind the Lines.
What Comes After the Coming Climate Anarchy?
Today it’s fashionable to speak of civilizational collapse. But what could that look like? And what will come after? Parag Khanna, in Time.
The (Final) Saudi century?
Breathless accounts of MBS's vaunting ambition don't take account of what is really happening in Saudi Arabia. Is NEOM nothing more than a fantasy? Arthur Snell explores.
A ceasefire would mean victory for Putin
In Kyiv, defiance is tempered with the depressing reality that the west might not be prepared to let Ukraine win. Arthur Snell dives deeper in the New European.
Syrian President Al-Assad Plays a Strong Hand in Diplomatic Poker.
A winning hand for President al-Assad? Despite years of isolation and a poverty-stricken population, the Syrian regime has strong diplomatic cards to play… James M. Dorsey explains.
The New Tunisian Order
Umberto Profazio explores Tunisian President Kais Saied’s gradual dismantling of one of the most progressive constitutions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the geopolitical implications of this slide into authoritarianism for IRIS.
Saudi nationalism and the end of Pax Americana
After turbulent years of aligning along sectarian divisions, the Middle East is getting back to its comfort zone: authoritarian nationalism. But this time, the US isn't in the centre picture. Arthur Snell explores in Not all Doom.
Ukraine: The Crucial Year?
Ukraine’s upcoming counteroffensive could be its last chance to retake Russian-occupied territory. Is this the crucial year for Ukraine? Arthur Snell explores.
The UAE's shift in Libya, where Abu Dhabi is warming ties with Tripoli, is in line with the pragmatism adopted since the end of the Trump administration but will hardly go beyond politics and business. Umberto Profazio writes for the NATO Defense College Foundation.
Meet the author: Arthur Snell
Arthur Snell is interviewed by Dave Harriers for the Stroud Times’ ‘Meet the Author’ podcasts to discuss his book, How Britain Broke The World.
Moving towards a nuclear Middle East
Most plans to transition economies from fossil fuels to 'clean' energy relies on the use of nuclear power. This shift has important implications for a not yet pacified Middle East. Umberto Profazio explores for the NDCF.
War in the Arctic
On Doomsday Watch, Arthur Snell charts a vast and game-changing development where climate change could upend the global balance of maritime power. Could the struggle to control a newly-navigable Arctic Ocean become the Great Game of the 21st Century?
Desert Flashpoint: Crisis in the Sahel
Civil wars and climate change rendering vast areas of the Sahel uninhabitable have created a refugee crisis which European demagogues can feast upon. And now Putin’s proxies are involved. Arthur Snell explores on his podcast, Doomsday Watch.
Arab Geopolitics 2022: A region between conflict and normalisation
Umberto Profazio’s policy paper for NDCF explores the new version of the non-aligned movement in the MENA region that has been been long in the making, and what implications this has for the Arab region.
Moving UK Embassy in Israel would be a British Betrayal
Alexandra Hall Hall assesses reports that the UK’s embassy in Israel could move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the Byline Times.
The expanding ramifications of the Maghreb rift
Umberto Profazio writes for TRENDS on how the global fallout of the conflict in Ukraine has led to a scramble for gas in the MENA region, and how a struggle for regional supremacy over gas and oil supplies will have ramifications across the African continent.
The Policy Ask with Arthur Snell: ‘Many of the world’s problems stem from the Iraq invasion’
Arthur Snell discusses the Iraq war, the Green Deal and electoral reform in an interview with The New Statesman.
In the Arctic, cooperation with Russia is simply too important
Jason Pack writes for the NATO Defense College Foundation on the crucial areas — such as climate change and preservation of the Arctic — where our global interests will be worse off if we don’t work with Russia.
The west must work with Russia to save the Arctic
Jason Pack writes for The Financial Times that the lack of strong collective action approaches towards the climate crisis is a crucial component in our era of disorder, and that the West must work with Russia to save the Arctic.
Hydropocalypse Now
When the water runs out, populations move in their millions. And that means destabiliation on a global scale. Arthur Snell talks to researchers and unlikely experts about a threat that’s bigger than any populist movement or villainous autocrat on Doomsday Watch.