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Ep.11
Tom Woolmore
Finland & Nordic security researcher
How Finland deters Russia — and what countries like the UK can learn from the Nordic model of whole-of-society defence.
Ep.10
Bardia Hariri
Iranian-American entrepreneur & founder of Iranaissance
On the Iranaissance movement, the 60-day transition window after a potential regime collapse, and Iran’s path to becoming a global trade crossroads.
Ep.9
Edoardo Giglio
Author of Tech Tides, innovation & geopolitics researcher
How innovation ecosystems are rewriting the rules of war — from Taiwan’s Silicon Shield to Europe’s AI crisis and the new geography of technological power.
Ep.8
David Betz
Professor of War in the Modern World, King’s College London
Civil war is no longer a distant thought experiment for the West. Betz argues we’ve already passed the tipping point — and maps the six conditions signalling internal rupture.
“I believe that civil war is coming to the West. In fact, I think we’re past the tipping point.”
Ep.7
Michelle Haas
PhD Researcher, UGent; Fellow, Egmont Institute; Special Forces Reservist
On the state of the transatlantic relationship, Europe’s preparedness gap, and the whole-of-society lessons the Baltics and Nordics have for the rest of the Alliance.
Ep.6
Jerome Drevon
Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group; author of From Jihad to Politics
How HTS evolved from an Al-Qaeda affiliate to Syria’s governing power — the organisational dynamics, the “jihadi paradox,” and what it reveals about armed groups worldwide.
“For him to meet an American president — that was clearly inconceivable up to some time ago.”
Ep.5
Mateusz Mielczarek
Chief Strategy Officer, Community of Democracies; KCL War Studies researcher
Poland is spending over 4% of GDP on defence and becoming NATO’s eastern powerhouse. On the strategy, the hybrid threats, and why societal resilience is central to it all.
“We try to prepare for the next wars rather than the past one.”
Ep.4
Inès Abdel Razek
Co-Director, Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy
On Palestinian fragmentation, the legitimacy crisis of the PLO, the rise of people’s diplomacy, and why international complicity is the greatest obstacle to liberation.
“The obstacles to our liberation are international.”
Ep.3
Damon Golriz
Strategic Iran Analyst, Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
On the US-Israeli strikes, why there was no real strategy behind them, the three pillars keeping the Islamic Republic standing, and why Iran could still build a nuclear weapon in 15 days.
“There is no strategy. There is no plan.”
Ep.2
Grant Ennis
Author of Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health and the Environment
The corporate playbook that shifted blame for climate catastrophe onto individuals — including how BP invented the concept of your personal carbon footprint — and why only collective action changes the world.
“We must make the world a better place, not feel as though we are making the world a better place.”
Ep.1
Rudi Vranckx
Belgian war journalist & historian, VRT
On why we’re living in a Gramscian “age of monsters,” how history is weaponised by those in power, and why understanding the past is the only reliable compass left.
“It’s a slow war of attrition to find the truth for society, for history. Be prepared.”