The Foreign Desk

363 Episodes

1. Is popularity in politics a thing of the past?

   Published: 09/08/2025
2. Explainer 478: Why does Trump care about Bolsonaro?

   Published: 06/08/2025
3. The catastrophe in Gaza and the prospects of a Palestinian state

   Published: 02/08/2025
4. Explainer 478: Why is Islamic State targeting the DRC?

   Published: 30/07/2025
5. Cameroon’s forgotten crisis: Is reconciliation in the Anglo-Franco schism possible?

   Published: 26/07/2025
6. Explainer 477: What is behind the violence in Syria?

   Published: 23/07/2025
7. Explainer 476: Lesotho’s one-man fight for South African land

   Published: 22/07/2025
8. The future of warfare

   Published: 19/07/2025
9. Dynastic democracies

   Published: 12/07/2025
10. Explainer 475: Why has Russia recognised the Taliban?

    Published: 09/07/2025
11. How to topple a tyrant 

    Published: 05/07/2025
12. Explainer 474: Tuvalu’s climate-change escape to Australia

    Published: 02/07/2025
13. Has the ‘12-Day War’ settled anything?

    Published: 28/06/2025
14. Explainer 473: Cambodia, Thailand and phone-call warfare

    Published: 25/06/2025
15. The view of Europe from Globsec Forum 2025

    Published: 21/06/2025
16. Explainer 472: The furious funeral row over Zambia’s former president 

    Published: 18/06/2025
17. ‘The Foreign Desk’ in Odesa: the international ripple effects of war in Ukraine

    Published: 14/06/2025
18. Explainer 471: Who gets to be an Italian citizen? 

    Published: 11/06/2025
19. Odesa, the Black Sea, the front line and Ukraine’s future

    Published: 07/06/2025
20. Explainer 470: The on-again, off-again US-Iran nuclear talks

    Published: 04/06/2025