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Top10 Podcasts on Foreign Policy

Verbal Notes Newsletter # 11

Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (Samet, Elizabeth D.)

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (Tuchman, Barbara W.)

The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions (Walzer, Michael)

LEARNING FROM REAL WARS: GAZA AND UKRAINE

In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War

What Would a Trump Administration Mean for the War in Ukraine?

How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life (Ellenberg, Jordan)

The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying.

Verbal Notes Newsletter # 10

More than a Vocation: Canada’s Need for a 21st Century Foreign Service.

The Case for Dollarization in Argentina

ISRAEL’S GAZA GROUND INVASION AND THE RETURN OF “STRATEGIC DEPTH”

How ‘discourses of delay’ are used to slow climate action.

The Oil and Gas Industry in Net Zero Transitions

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Verbal Notes Newlsetter # 9

Henry Kissinger dies at 100.

Top 10 TV Series on Foreign Policy & International Relations.

Unsuitable for Parents: A QAnon Fairy Tale

Prosperity or Penury: The political and economic fallout of the opium ban in Afghanistan

With All Eyes on Gaza, Israel Tightens Its Grip on the West Bank

Israel-Palestine war: Has David Cameron revived the Tory Arabist tradition?

HOWEVER DIFFICULT, THE UNITED STATES SHOULD STILL PURSUE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE

Sharia Compliant: A User's Guide to Hacking Islamic Law (Encountering Traditions) Ahmed, Rumee

Verbal Notes Newlsetter # 8

Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs.

The rise and fall of geopolitical Europe

Kafka in Cuba:

How Trauma Drives the Politics of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

No Exit From Gaza

The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza

Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future (Papic, Marko)

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism (Bremmer, Ian)

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Bloom, Paul)

Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace (Wright, Lawrence)

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (Sanger, David E.)

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (Ferguson, Niall)

Verbal Notes Newlsetter # 7

The Utility of Force: The Art Of War In The Modern World (Rupert Smith)

How the World Lost Faith in the UN

The Conservative Fault Lines Revealed by Debates Over Israel

The Israeli public has embraced the Smotrich doctrine

Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence (Sherman, Ambassador Wendy R.)

L'Histoire secrète du Djihad - D'al-Qaida à l'État islamique (Ould M. Salem, Lemine; Hafs Al Mouritani, Abou)

Verbal Notes Newlsetter # 6

Command: The Twenty-First-Century General (King, Anthony)

The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason (de Bellaigue, Christopher)

The global credibility gap: Assessing underperformance and overreach in today’s geopolitics

The Uses and Abuses of the Term ‘Genocide’ in Gaza

Israel loses much of the support it gained after Hamas’ attack

Verbal Notes Newlsetter # 5

The Gaza War Reverberates Across the Middle East

The World Through Arab Eyes: Arab Public Opinion and the Reshaping of the Middle East (Telhami, Shibley)

There Might Be No Day After in Gaza

From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia (McFaul, Michael)

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Harari, Yuval Noah)

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (Gladwell, Malcolm)

How Nonviolent Struggle Works (Sharp, Gene)

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen (Heath, Dan)

All Necessary Measures?: The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya (Martin, Ian)

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Ferguson, Niall)

Libya: From Colony to Revolution (St John, Ronald Bruce)

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory (Bacevich, Andrew)

Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon (Carter, Ash)

Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi (Laessing, Ulf)

Global Tax Evasion Report 2024

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Informer: Revisiting the Ethics of Espionage in the Context of Insurgencies and New Wars

European Union 2023 Strategic Foresight Report

Putin, Pushkin, and the decline of the Russian empire.

Collective Punishment in Gaza Will Not Bring Israel Security

Enigma: The Enigma of Israel’s Intelligence Failure almost 45 years ago.

URBAN WARFARE, SIEGES, AND ISRAEL’S LOOMING INVASION OF GAZA

The BRICS Summit 2023: Seeking an Alternate World Order?

PLANS ARE PREDICTIONS. All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Expel all Palestinians from Gaza, recommends Israeli gov’t ministry

Verbal Notes Newsletter #4.

Bracing for a broader conflict: How the Israel-Hamas war could escalate.

An Open Letter on Israel/Palestine and the Gaza crisis

A MAJOR PIVOT IN HAMAS STRATEGY

China’s Belt and Road: Implications for the United States

Big Tech won. Now what?

Seizing the Initiative in Ukraine: Waging War in a Defense Dominant World

Thinking the Unthinkable: A new imperative for leadership in the digital age (Gowing, Nik; Langdon, Chris)

The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal (Burns, William J.)

Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists (Hegghammer, Thomas)

Verbal Notes Newsletter #3

“Cannon to Right of Them, Cannon to Left of Them”: Coping with War Around Europe.

The Russian war economy: macroeconomic performance

What the History of Modern War Offers Prime Minister Netanyahu

The Naked Diplomat: Power and Statecraft in the Digital Age (Fletcher, Tom)

On Grand Strategy (Gaddis, John Lewis)

On Negotiation.

Verbal Notes Newsletter #2

Lessons from Israel's Wars in Gaza

How to Implement Strategic Foresight (and Why), by Alberto Behar and Sandile Hlatshwayo

How much is one trilion dollars?

Verbal Notes Newsletter #1

The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts (Tierney, Dominic)

The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World (Bremmer, Ian)

DOCTRINE FOR DIPLOMACY

How Iran’s Missile Strategy has Rewritten the Rules of Middle Eastern Wars

ECFR: Strategic interdependence:

Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are (Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth)

How to Lead Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers(David M. Rubenstein)

Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions

Anger management. The Politics of Frustration in the Arab World and its Implications for the West

Libya's Fragmentation: Structure and Process in Violent Conflict (Lacher, Wolfram)

Obama's Wars (Woodward, Bob)

The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army (Jaffe, Greg; Cloud, David)

How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between (Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner)

Outliers: The Story of Success (Gladwell, Malcolm)

Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level (Sebenius, James K.; Burns, R. Nicholas; Mnookin, Robert H.)

How To Stage A Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft (Cormac, Rory)

El invierno llama a la puerta (José Antonio Sabadell) Artículo publicado en Política Exterior 189, mayo de 2019

Winter is coming

Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder (Pack, Jason)

Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (Thurston, Alexander)

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Snyder, Timothy)

To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré (Brody, Reed)

The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (Kissinger, Henry A; Schmidt, Eric; Huttenlocher, Daniel)

Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine (Freedman, Lawrence)

And Then What?: Inside Stories of 21st-Century Diplomacy (Ashton, Catherine)