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EPISODE 123:
What the Venezuelan
Election Means for Essequibo
​​
 

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EPISODE 122:
South Africa: Comeback or Collapse?​​
  • Carien Du Plessis & Martin Plaut - Understanding South Africa
    https://a.co/d/0gMUsigv
  • Martin Meredith - Diamonds, Gold and War: The British, the Boers and the Making of South Africa
    https://a.co/d/01znaEKs
  • Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson - Why Nations Fail
    https://a.co/d/0eaAvkHj
 

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EPISODE 121:
Rare Earth Elements:
The Futile Fight Against China​​
  • Guillaume Pitron - The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
    https://a.co/d/0eGy4IPs
  • Ernest Scheyder - The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives 
    https://a.co/d/0252fTyt
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smuggles, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
    https://a.co/d/0fc9Y9nc
 

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The Armed Forces of Central Asia - Part 1: Tajikistan and Regional Command Structures​​
  • Raffaello Pantucci - Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent empire
    https://a.co/d/0dchiqho
  • Charles K Bartles and Lester W Grau - Russian Way of War
    https://a.co/d/07TraLUT
  • Erica Marat - The Military and State in Central Asia
    https://a.co/d/0f0rbpAZ
 

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EPISODE 120:
The Forced Friendship:
Russia’s Uneasy Alliance​​
  • Keir Giles - Russia’s War on Everybody
    https://a.co/d/06apbmM2
  • Chris Miller - Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
    https://a.co/d/02xNVEOM
  • Maximilian Hess - Economic War: Ukraine and the Global Conflict between Russia and the West
    https://a.co/d/0bh0tmEo
 

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EPISODE 119:
Indonesia’s Defence Dilemma​​
  • Lex Rieffel - Out of Business and on Budget: The Challenge of Military Financing in Indonesia
    https://a.co/d/0iXs9KnN
  • John Martinkus - The Road: Uprising in West Papua
    https://a.co/d/00JDftCV
  • Ben Bland - A Man of Contradictions | Joko Widodo and the struggle to remake Indonesia, https://www.penguin.sg/book/man-of-contradictions/
    https://a.co/d/0ek9oMGE
 

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EPISODE 118:
Wargaming: San Marino vs. Italy​​
  • April Fools Episode
 

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EPISODE 117:
Equipping Your Insurgency:
A Guide to the Small Arms Market​​
  • Laura Lumpe - Running Guns: The Global Black Market in Small arms
    https://a.co/d/0bpOJD7J
  • Rory Cormac - How to Stage a Coup
    https://a.co/d/0gYWs1n5
  • Alan B. Krueger - What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism
    https://a.co/d/0f6J9AK4
 

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EPISODE 116:
Haiti: Cauldron of the Caribbean
  • Jared Diamond - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    https://a.co/d/01j0HWJf
  • Marlene L. Daut - Awakening the Ashes
    https://a.co/d/04ErQ0io
  • Greg Beckett and Lachlan Summers - There is No More Haiti
    https://a.co/d/0cbqYN0L
 

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EPISODE 115:
The Future of Nuclear Warfare
  • Andrew Futter - The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
    https://a.co/d/0eVNIMKh
  • Peter A. Goetz - A Technical History of America’s Nuclear Weapons
    https://a.co/d/0g0Q3eeu
  • Todd S. Sechser - Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
    https://a.co/d/0agOoNMT
 

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EPISODE 114:
Poland: Europe’s Eastern Shield​​
  • Norman Davies - White Eagle, Red Star
    https://a.co/d/0hHENTvt
  • Seth G. Jones - A Covert Action: Reagan, the CIA and the Cold War struggle in Poland
    https://a.co/d/08QjoyMz
  • Jaroslav Kuisz - The New Politics of Poland: A Case of Post-Traumatic Sovereignty
    https://a.co/d/02wZNogJ
 

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EPISODE 113:
Can India Replace China in the
Global Supply Chain?​​
  • Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson - Why Nations Fail
    https://a.co/d/0eaAvkHj
  • Ashoka Mody - India Is Broken: A People Betrayed
    https://a.co/d/038Hnw5P
  • Shivshankar Menon - Indian and Asian Geopolitics
    https://a.co/d/0dQgHjyn

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EPISODE 112:
Russia’s Six Fleets: A Sinking Superpower​​
  • Mark Galeotti - Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
    https://a.co/d/00ksNUXw
  • Andrew Monaghan & Richard Connolly - The Sea in Russian Strategy
    https://a.co/d/05vFCdfE
  • Keir Giles - Russia’s War on Everybody
    https://a.co/d/06apbmM2
 

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EPISODE 111:
The Splintering of Sudan​​
  • Willow Berridge and Alex de Waal - Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy
    https://a.co/d/06VlJe7X
  • Dhieu Mathok Diing Wol - Politics of Ethnic Discrimination in Sudan
    https://a.co/d/06VlJe7X
  • Richard Cockett - Sudan: The Failure and Division of an African State
    https://a.co/d/09oqFWAZ
 

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EPISODE 110:
Wargaming: Argentina
Reinvades the Falklands​​
  • Max Gastings and Simon Jenkins - The Battle for the Falklands
    https://a.co/d/0cCUVRdy
  • Kenneth L. Privratsky - Logistics in the Falklands War
    https://a.co/d/0ex8lebf
  • Aldo Ferrer - The Argentine Economy
    https://a.co/d/01B2QtYL
 

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EPISODE 109:
A Second Arab Spring:
Imminent or Impossible?​​
  • Alex Nunns - Tweets from Tahir
    https://a.co/d/0gCh9IO9
  • Mark L. Haas - The Arab Spring
    https://a.co/d/0cqpfv7z
  • Jamie Allinson - The Age of Counter-Revolution
    https://a.co/d/0g29uoOQ
 

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EPISODE 108:
Extrajudicial Killings and
Targeted Assassinations​​
  • Sean McFate - The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder
    https://a.co/d/05mQSjal
  • Jeremy Scahill - The Assassination complex
    https://a.co/d/0dqmTMi8
  • Mikhail Zygar - All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
    https://a.co/d/03wgE0zX
 

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EPISODE 107:
The Hollowing of Hong Kong​​
  • Chris Patten - The Hong Kong Diaries
    https://a.co/d/01dFHBsD
  • Kevin Carrico - Two Systems, Two Countries
    https://a.co/d/0hTp45yL
  • Mark Clifford - Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the Worldhttps://a.co/d/0dYF1s8T
 

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EPISODE 106:
Wargaming: Moldova vs Transnistria​​
  • Tyrone Shaw - Bastard Republic: Encounters Along the Tattered Edge of Fallen Empire
    https://a.co/d/0bpW8Niz
  • Rebecca Haynes - Moldova: A History
    https://a.co/d/089zYpz9
  • Antonio Calcara - European Defence: Decision Making and Dilemmas in Collaborative Arms Procurement
    https://a.co/d/037MxSQ6
 

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EPISODE 105:
Iran: Crises on Every Front​​
  • Alex Vatanka - The Battle of the Ayatollahs
    https://a.co/d/0c8awtNS
  • Seth G. Jones - Three Dangerous Men
    https://a.co/d/00fPdMvW
  • Kim Ghattas - Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    https://a.co/d/05btrE11
 

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EPISODE 104:
El Salvador: The Price of Security​​
  • William Wheeler - State of War: MS-13 in El Salvador’s World of Violence
    https://a.co/d/0cP27T7j
  • Sonja Wolf - Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador
    https://a.co/d/0iv06sHO
  • Aviva Chomsky - Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration
    https://a.co/d/09X22VFn
 

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EPISODE 103:
Wargaming: India vs Pakistan​​
  • Srinvasan Kalyanaraman - India’s Military Strategy: Countering Pakistan’s Challenge
    https://a.co/d/08C068rH
  • Christine Fair - Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War
    https://a.co/d/05bUZcT0
  • Robert Kaplan - Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
    https://a.co/d/05OON4ww
 

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EPISODE 102:
The Economic Feasibility of Nuclear Power​​
  • Simone Tagliapietra - Global Energy Fundamentals: Economics of Nuclear Power
    https://a.co/d/02BetnuZ
  • Geoffrey Rothwell - Economics of Nuclear Power
    https://a.co/d/0gPwOUJR
  • Joshua Goldstein - A Bright Future
    https://a.co/d/0ieKV8ov
 

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EPISODE 101:
UUV’s: Underwater Drones
and Seabed Warfare​​
  • Ian Speller - Understanding Naval Warfare
    https://a.co/d/0ay8REwO
  • Andrew Cockburn - Killchain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
    https://a.co/d/097B12Ml
  • Brent D. Sadler - US Naval Power in the 21st Century: A New Strategy for Facing the Chinese and Russian Threat
    https://a.co/d/0eNtIxZC
 

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EPISODE 100:
Scoring Every Prediction by the Red Line
(100th Episode Special)​​
  • No book recommendations, but a lot of thank you’s to everyone
 

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EPISODE 99:
Equatorial Guinea: The North Korea of Africa​​
  • Joanna Allan - Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
    https://a.co/d/0en141IV
  • Douglas A. Yates - The Scramble for African Oil
    https://a.co/d/08BFToMt
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine
    https://a.co/d/0aYxQigC
 

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EPISODE 98:
The Geopolitics of Estonia​​
  • Charles Clarke - Understanding the Baltic States
    https://a.co/d/02NDKRWD
  • Violaines Champetier de Ribes - The Full Digital Nation
    https://a.co/d/08IzMqVz
  • Anatol Lieven - The Baltic Revolution
    https://a.co/d/03Fa6KTy
 

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EPISODE 97:
The Death of Françafrique:
Africa's Rebalancing Act​​
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine
    https://a.co/d/0aYxQigC
  • Dipo Faloyin - Africa is not a Country
    https://a.co/d/00DLubkP
  • Fanny Pigeaud - Africa’s Last Colonial Currency
    https://a.co/d/02WaR23u
 

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EPISODE 96:
Democracy in Central Asia?
  • Alexander Cooley - Dictators Without Borders
    https://a.co/d/0bS7ufSw
  • Raffaello Pantucci - Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent empire
    https://a.co/d/0dchiqho
  • Peter Frankopan - The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
    https://a.co/d/0hDw4YEH
 

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EPISODE 95:
The Death of the US Dollar?​​
  • Eswar Prasad - The Dollar Trap
    https://a.co/d/0enczkjk
  • Paul Sheard - The Power of Money
    https://a.co/d/01ZtuV8M
  • Vicki Pryce - Women vs Capitalism
    https://a.co/d/0gy56YCa
 

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EPISODE 94:
Egypt’s Economic Crisis: A Perfect Storm?​​
  • Stephen A. Cook - The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square
    https://a.co/d/0hFawOGW
  • Alex Nunns - Tweets from Tahir
    https://a.co/d/0gCh9IO9
  • Frederic Wehrey - The Burning Shores: Inside the Battle of the New Libya
    https://a.co/d/0aZUkema
 

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EPISODE 93:
Satellite surveillance:
The New Orbital Arms Race​​
  • Tim Marshall - The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change our World
    https://a.co/d/00odtSp4
  • Bleddyn Bowen - The War in Space
    https://a.co/d/037la1pi
  • James Clay Moltz - The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests
    https://a.co/d/04WYxVZb
 

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EPISODE 92:
Narco-Economics:
Inside the Mexican Drug Trade​​
  • Benjamin T. Smith - The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
    https://a.co/d/0aveh1jB
  • Tom Burgess - Kleptopia
    https://a.co/d/0im82Chb
  • Ben Westhoff - Fentanyl, Inc
    https://a.co/d/06fmY6q3
 

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EPISODE 91:
Bulgaria: Russia’s Backdoor into Europe?​​
  • Tim Marshall - Shadow Play: Behind the Lines and Under Fire, the Inside Story of Europe’s Last War
    https://a.co/d/01Jen2DU
  • Robert D. Kaplan - Balkan Ghosts
    https://a.co/d/0gQFK55P
  • Theodora Raya Danailov - Bulgaria: Environmental, Social and Economic Challenges
    https://a.co/d/06KO7R3Z
 

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EPISODE 99:
Equatorial Guinea: The North Korea of Africa​​
  • Joanna Allan - Silenced Resistance: Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
    https://a.co/d/0en141IV
  • Douglas A. Yates - The Scramble for African Oil
    https://a.co/d/08BFToMt
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine
    https://a.co/d/0aYxQigC
 

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EPISODE 90:
East Asian Rearmament​​
  • Kevin Rudd - The Avoidable War
    https://a.co/d/05OZR5jx
  • Robert Spalding - War Without Rules
    https://a.co/d/0d3GDB8u
  • Ian Easton - The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan’s Defence and American Strategy in Asia
    https://a.co/d/072a760N
 

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EPISODE 89:
European Rearmament
(Are We Preparing for the Wrong War?)​​
  • Mark Galeotti - Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
    https://a.co/d/00ksNUXw
  • Michael Ashcroft - White Flag
    https://a.co/d/02COO5kQ
  • George Friedman - Flashpoints
    https://a.co/d/0bvi8UXn
 

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EPISODE 88:
Venezuela’s Return to the West?​​
  • Chris Sabatini - Reclaiming Human Rights in a Changing World Order https://a.co/d/03OHcUWQ
  • William Neumann - Things Are Never So Bad that They Can’t Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
    https://a.co/d/0bRSJUkW
  • Raul Gallegos - Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
    https://a.co/d/0ehpXMR7
 

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EPISODE 87:
How Strong is the Chinese Economy​​
  • Joanna Chiu - China Unbound
    https://a.co/d/08XymfBW
  • Thomas Orlik - China: The Bubble That Never Pops
    https://a.co/d/05XOA2Xe
  • Hermann Rupold - Superpower China
    https://a.co/d/00ToUTOy
 

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EPISODE 86:
 Russian Operations in Syria​​
  • Cristopher Phillips - The Battle for Syria
    https://a.co/d/03VxBxhB
  • Anna Borschevskaya - Putin’s War in Syria
    https://a.co/d/05Vhvzax
  • Mark Galeotti - Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine
    https://a.co/d/00ksNUXw
 

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EPISODE 85:
Could the US Conquer North Korea?​​
  • Scott Snyder - North Korea’s Foreign Policy
    https://a.co/d/045D2Zxc
  • Daniel Tudor - North Korea Confidential
    https://a.co/d/0fQf4Cz1
  • Victor Cha - The Impossible State
    https://a.co/d/0fmbghmv
 

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EPISODE 84:
Is the CSTO Facing Collapse?​​
  • Raffaello Pantucci - Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent empire
    https://a.co/d/0dchiqho
  • Alexander Cooley - Dictators Without Borders
    https://a.co/d/0bS7ufSw
  • Steven Pifer - The Eagle and the Trident
    https://a.co/d/06JTJ4Rc
 

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Green Line - Ep V - The Winners and Losers of Energy Transition​​
  • Henry Sanderson - Volt Rush
    https://a.co/d/05Vn3bZS
  • Vaclav Smith - Energy Transitions: Global and Nationa
    Perspectives https://a.co/d/065cbXL1
  • Tom Bower - The Squeeze
    https://a.co/d/0eRBM6Ru
 

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EPISODE 83:
Does Foreign Aid Actually Work?​​
  • Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson - Why Nations Fail
    https://a.co/d/0eaAvkHj
  • Abhijit Banerjee - Poor Economics
    https://a.co/d/0024VA11
  • Thomas Piketty - Capital in the 21st Century
    https://a.co/d/052CwTfk
 

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Green Line - Ep IV - D.R.Congo: Dirty Metals for Clean Energy​​
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine
    https://a.co/d/0aYxQigC
  • Siddhart Kara - Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
    https://a.co/d/0igbQotk
  • Jason Stearns - Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
    https://a.co/d/00WAkBz8
 

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EPISODE 82:
Saudi Arabia: A Global Economic Powderkeg
  • Kim Ghattas - Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    https://a.co/d/05btrE11
  • Ibrahim Fraihat - Iran and Saudi Arabia: Taming a Chaotic conflict
    https://a.co/d/0cBaaPL9
  • Tom Bower - The Squeeze
    https://a.co/d/0eRBM6Ru
 

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Green Line - Ep III - Water Wars​​
  • Ed Barbier - The Water Paradox: Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management
    https://a.co/d/0akj0eeZ
  • Erica Gies - Water always Wins
    https://a.co/d/01smin3g
  • Brian Eyler - Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
    https://a.co/d/0dflh1x1
 

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EPISODE 81:
The Geopolitics of Microchips
and Semiconductors
  • Chris Miller - Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
    https://a.co/d/05d8tZeF
  • Fang Chen - Deciphering China’s Microchip Industry
    https://a.co/d/06HacidP
  • Fred Bergsten - The United States vs China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership
    https://a.co/d/07JqG5Vw
 

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Green Line - Ep II - How the Chinese Military is Preparing for Climate Change
  • William A Joseph - Politics in China: An Introduction
    https://a.co/d/0igjozfs
  • Scott M. Moore - China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World's Future
    https://a.co/d/09y3kknO
  • Gaia Vince - Nomad Century
    https://a.co/d/0hyL09LP
 

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EPISODE 80:
Mozambique: The Campaign
Against Cabo Delgado
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smuggles, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
    https://a.co/d/0fc9Y9nc
  • Edwards Stephen Emerson - The Battle for Mozambique: The Frelimo-Renamo Struggle
    https://a.co/d/05y5ojbg
  • Martin Welz - Africa Since Decolonization: The History and Politics of a Diverse continent
    https://a.co/d/0h6qzwYU
 

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Green Line - Ep I - How the US Military is Preparing for Climate Change
  • Daniel Yergin - The New Map
    https://a.co/d/01MgcdyL
  • Joshua W. Busby - States and Nature: The Politics of Climate Change
    https://a.co/d/0c7NTimn
  • David Wallace-Well - The Uninhabitable Earth
    https://a.co/d/07eF1ILq
 

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EPISODE 79:
Myanmar’s Crumbling Coup
  • Ko Ko Thett - Picking Off New Shoots will not Stop the Spring
    https://a.co/d/08M8uWnL
  • Sebastian Strangio - In the Dragon’s Shadow
    https://a.co/d/0eOFAIsr
  • Richard Cockett - Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma
    https://a.co/d/05oVaaHY
 

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EPISODE 78:
Turkey’s Strategic Goals in the Middle East (The Death of Kemalism?)
  • Soner Cagaptay - Erdogan’s Empire
    https://a.co/d/07Z5UKky
  • Ceren Lord - Religious Politics in Turkey
    https://a.co/d/0ijmAoef
  • Peter Mansfield - A History of the Middle East
    https://a.co/d/0dR3v5t5
 

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EPISODE 77:
The Cyber War in Ukraine
  • Andy Greenberg - Sandworm, A New Era of Cyber Warfare and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
    https://a.co/d/0j0HSqY2
  • P.W. Singer - Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media
    https://a.co/d/03JbLFAK
  • Christopher Whyte - Information Warfare in the Age of Cyber Conflict
    https://a.co/d/00pTkYVx
 

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EPISODE 76:
Are Aircraft Carriers Becoming Obsolete?
  • Chris Terrill - How to Build an Aircraft Carrier
    https://a.co/d/08cOjiKI
  • James Stavridis - Sea Power
    https://a.co/d/04A1Sjgp
  • Andrew Lambert - Sea Power States
    https://a.co/d/01V2B0vv
 

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EPISODE 75:
Human Trafficking:
An Industry Lacking Conviction
  • Wendy Stickle - Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration of Modern Day Slavery
    https://a.co/d/0izNCSLl
  • Siddhart Kara - Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
    https://a.co/d/07MRPwn2
  • Emily Kenway - The Truth about Modern Slavery
    https://a.co/d/04kfOIG5
 

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EPISODE 74:
The Black Market for Nuclear Weapons
  • Andrew Futter - The Politics of Nuclear Weapons
    https://a.co/d/0eVNIMKh
  • Eric Gomez - America’s Nuclear Crossroads: A Forwards-Looking Anthology
    https://a.co/d/0aL69BBq
  • Matthew Bunn - Preventing Black Market Trade in Nuclear Technology
    https://a.co/d/0eo2OKZo
 

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EPISODE 73:
Balochistan and the
Breaking of Belt-and-Road
  • Tilak Devasher - Pakistan: the Baluch Conundrum
    https://a.co/d/0ikFIi3H
  • Azad Singh Rathore - Balochistan, The Heights of Oppression
    https://a.co/d/0gweTvrn
  • Shuja Nawaz - The Battle for Pakistan: The Bitter US Friendship and a Tough Neighborhood
    https://a.co/d/08ArB4Nn
 

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EPISODE 72:
Can Europe Survive Without Russian Gas?
  • Daniel Yergin - The Quest
    https://a.co/d/06r9N9sg
  • Ronald Dannreuther - Energy Security
    https://a.co/d/0ihoMPdE
  • US Army War College - Natural Gas: An Instrument of Russian State Power
    https://a.co/d/08ArB4Nn
 

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EPISODE 71:
The New Arms Race for the Indian Ocean
  • Anit Mukherjee - India’s Naval Strategy and Asian Security
    https://a.co/d/01pLLtcT
  • Geoff Raby - China’s Grand Strategy
    https://a.co/d/0chXd3Dr
  • Rory Medcalf - Contest for the Indo-Pacific
    https://a.co/d/03rWCiXT
 

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EPISODE 70:
Romanian and Moldovan Reunification (A Defence Against Russia?)
  • Tyrone Shaw - Bastard Republic: Encounters Along the Tattered Edge of Fallen Empire
    https://a.co/d/0bpW8Niz
  • Robert D. Kaplan - Balkan Ghosts
    https://a.co/d/0gQFK55P
  • Rolando M. Dromundo Valadez - State Building in the Middle of Geopolitical Struggle: The Cases of Ukraine, Moldova, and Pridnestrovia
 

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EPISODE 69:
Chinese Influence in South America
  • Matthew Rothwell - Transpacific Revolutionaries; The Chinese Revolution in Latin America
    https://a.co/d/05KUB3cR
  • Kevin P. Callagher - The China Triangle
    https://a.co/d/0cryr5tZ
  • Margaret Meyers - The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations in the New Millennium
    https://a.co/d/09kOJgZu
 

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EPISODE 68:
How Effective are Economic Sanctions?
  • Tom Burgess - Kleptopia
    https://a.co/d/0im82Chb
  • Chris Miller - Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
    https://a.co/d/02xNVEOM
  • Nicholas Mulder - The Economic Weapon; The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
    https://a.co/d/08AS3s25
 

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EPISODE 67:
Oman: A Looming Crisis
  • Calvin Allen - Oman under Qaboos
    https://a.co/d/00iEcopy
  • Jeremy Jones - The History of Modern Oman
    https://a.co/d/0e9gK46N
  • Helen Lackner - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
    https://a.co/d/0bIHzD33
 

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EPISODE 66:
Why are Military Coups on the Rise in Africa
  • Martin Meredith - Fortunes of Africa
    https://a.co/d/0fKxDJfZ
  • Martin Meredith - The State of Africa
    https://a.co/d/0iinpcZ8
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smuggles, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
    https://a.co/d/0fc9Y9nc
 

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EPISODE 65:
The Feasibility of an EU Army
  • George Friedman - The Storm Before the Calm
    https://a.co/d/06l2VlLM
  • George Friedman - Flashpoints
    https://a.co/d/0bvi8UXn
  • Daniel Yergin - The New Map
    https://a.co/d/01MgcdyL
 

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EPISODE 64:
Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and the Battle for Melanesia
  • Don Kulick - A death in the rainforest
    https://a.co/d/01YQF0xc
  • Chris Glatte - Bloody Bougainville
    https://a.co/d/058tqIIK
  • Matthias Emira - Arc of Instability
    https://a.co/d/0dAxB8Gx
 

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EPISODE 63:
Can Syria Be Rebuilt?
  • Cristopher Phillips - The Battle for Syria
    https://a.co/d/03VxBxhB
  • Sam Dagher - Assad or We Burn the Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria
    https://a.co/d/0h2CIJ69
  • Nikolaos Van Dam - Destroying a Nation
    https://a.co/d/0i0p95qU
 

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EPISODE 62:
The Geopolitics of Suriname
  • Dave Robbins - History of the Guianas
    https://a.co/d/0a0ipKjK
  • Michael Reid - Forgotten Continent
    https://a.co/d/0gSSENSH
  • R. Hoefte - Suriname in the Long Twentieth Century: Domination, Contestation, Globalization
    https://a.co/d/0bWH2m3d
 

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EPISODE 61:
Turkish Influence in Central Asia
  • Alexander Cooley - Dictators Without Borders
    https://a.co/d/0bS7ufSw
  • Moritz Pieper - The Making of Eurasia
    https://a.co/d/0f4Cwuin
  • Emre Ersen - Turkey’s Pivot to Eurasia
    https://a.co/d/07TftED4
 

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EPISODE 60:
How Terrorist Groups are Funded
  • Matthew Levitt - Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God
    https://a.co/d/06cz3QAq
  • Lawrence Wright - The Terror Years
    https://a.co/d/06bTD7ue
  • Colin P. Clarke - Terrorism Inc
    https://a.co/d/0gDbZc2e
 

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EPISODE 59:
Russia’s Pacific Strategy: The Forgotten Front
  • Frank Alfred Golder - Russian expansion on the Pacific: 1641-1850
    https://a.co/d/02K289SE
  • Gaye Christofferson - Russia in the Indo-Pacific; New Approaches to Russian Foreign Policy
    https://a.co/d/06fVthWs
  • Robert Kaplan - Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
    https://a.co/d/0hTPx6Ac
 

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EPISODE 58:
Bosnia: A Peace in Pieces
  • Tim Marshall - The Power of Geography
    https://a.co/d/04eMx1u5
  • Charles Rivers - The Dissolution of Yugoslavia: The History of the Yugoslav Wars and the Political Problems that Led to Yugoslavia’s Demise
    https://a.co/d/02SXagn0
  • Robert D. Kaplan - Balkan Ghosts
    https://a.co/d/0gQFK55P
 

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EPISODE 57:
Sri Lanka: The End of Neutrality
  • Haans J Freddy - Sri Lanka: The Policy of Human Rights
    https://amzn.eu/d/04fxs789
  • Gordon Weiss - The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka
    https://a.co/d/04ceCG3p
  • Asanga Abeyagoonasekera - The Conundrum of an Island
    https://a.co/d/0dYHeKvb
 

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EPISODE 56:
Could NATO Defend the
Baltic States Against Russia?
  • Oscar Jonsson - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
    https://a.co/d/08Remt5l
  • Mark Galeotti - The Modern Russian Army
    https://a.co/d/0duJVjvu
  • Laurien Crump - Margins for Maneuver in Cold War Europe
    https://amzn.eu/d/0b3ofl5Z
 

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EPISODE 55:
The Privatization of Warfare:
Russian PMC Operations in Africa
  • Sean McFate - The New Rules of War
    https://a.co/d/0dvCFrOi
  • Andreas Kreig - Surrogate Warfare
    https://a.co/d/0ig0repo
  • Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater
    https://a.co/d/0jimKlN6
 

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EPISODE 54:
Algeria: The Powderkeg of North Africa
  • John Philipps and Martin Evans - Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed
    https://a.co/d/0aot165c
  • Michael Willis - Politics and Power in the Maghreb: Algeria, tunisia and Morocco, from independence to the Arab Spring
    https://a.co/d/0gSJEzoE
  • Jeffrey James Byrne - Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization and the Third World Order
    https://a.co/d/0h0xlnwC
 

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EPISODE 53:
Vietnam: Frontline of the South China Sea
  • Sebastian Strangio - In the Dragon’s Shadow
    https://a.co/d/0eOFAIsr
  • Robert Kaplan - Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
    https://a.co/d/0hTPx6Ac
  • Bill Hayton - Vietnam: Rising Dragon
    https://a.co/d/0aFzcu0v
 

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EPISODE 52:
The Future of Space Warfare
  • Bleddyn Bowen - The War in Space
    https://a.co/d/037la1pi
  • John J. Klein - Understanding Space Strategy
    https://a.co/d/0gwDrh1R
  • George Friedman - The Next 100 Years
    https://a.co/d/0dP8rC4U
 

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EPISODE 51:
Belarus: The Next Crimea?
  • Steven Pifer - The Eagle and the Trident
    https://a.co/d/06JTJ4Rc
  • Andrew Wilson - Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship
    https://a.co/d/09OgKp4U
  • Sharon L. Wolchik - The Central and Eastern European Politics: From Communism to Democracy
    https://a.co/d/08t9JnX0
 

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EPISODE 50:
The Splitting of Cyprus: Turkey vs Greece
  • James Ker Lindsay - The Cyprus Problem
    https://a.co/d/0ecM329g
  • Rebecca Bryant - Cyprus and the Politics of Memory (150+ dollars on Amazon, what da hail?)
    https://a.co/d/09ZHRa4g
  • Demetris Assos - Makarios: The Revolutionary Priest of Cyprus
    https://a.co/d/0csYzvST
 

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EPISODE 49:
Brazil’s War in the Favelas
  • David R. Mares - Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence
    https://a.co/d/0cIUFl3t
  • Ricardo Tranjan - Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins
    https://a.co/d/08h8YGp2
  • Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira - Brazil, the United States and the South American Subsystem
    https://a.co/d/04UtOISx
 

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EPISODE 48:
The Shattering of Ethiopia (The War in Tigray)
  • Tom Cooper - The Ethiopian-Eritrean Wars (volumes 1 and 2)
    https://a.co/d/006vbg0t
    https://a.co/d/0a23kpo0
  • Alex de Waal - Evil Days: 30 Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia
    https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RcVFXUwraxsC/mode/2up
    https://a.co/d/0cL2kYnd
  • Martin Meredith - The State of Africa
    https://a.co/d/06Wst3J4
 

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EPISODE 47:
The Resurgence of Africa’s Conflict Diamonds
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine
    https://a.co/d/0aYxQigC
  • Greg Campbell - Blood Diamonds
    https://a.co/d/02osMplw
  • Martin Meredith - The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair
    https://a.co/d/0gpRrPRY
 

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EPISODE 46:
The UAE’s Red Sea Strategy
  • Bilal Saab - Rebuilding Arab Defense: US Security Cooperation in the Middle East
    https://a.co/d/01MPVJq5
  • Helen Lackner - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
    https://a.co/d/0bIHzD33
  • Tancred Bradshaw - The End of the Empire in the Gulf: From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates
    https://a.co/d/0faFlugl
 

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EPISODE 45:
Japan and the Quad
  • Robert Kaplan - Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
    https://a.co/d/0hTPx6Ac
  • Saori N. Katada - Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific
    https://a.co/d/04h9YePy
  • John Toland - The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    https://a.co/d/0dXbEVa3
 

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EPISODE 44:
The Geopolitics of Uzbekistan
(and the Island of Anthrax)
  • Peter Frankopan - The Silk Road
    https://a.co/d/03VrZoXf
  • Alexander Cooley - Dictators Without Borders
    https://a.co/d/0bS7ufSw
  • Adeeb Khalid - Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
    https://a.co/d/09pNQaE2
 

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EPISODE 43:
The Next Phase in Cyber Warfare
  • Bruce Schneier - Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
    https://a.co/d/06TyvUCQ
  • Brandon Valeriano - Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion
    https://a.co/d/02syWZV9
  • Dean Cheng - Cyber Dragon: Inside China’s Information Warfare and Cyber Operations
    https://a.co/d/0e48lb1u
 

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EPISODE 42:
The Battle for Western Sahara
  • Stephen Zunes - Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution
    https://a.co/d/0ir8pzcO
  • Toby Shelley - Endgame in the Western Sahara: What Future for Africa’s Last Colony
    https://a.co/d/0c70USMI
  • Sean Yom - Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa: Development, Democracy and Dictatorship
    https://a.co/d/051h4TBQ
 

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EPISODE 41:
Who Controls the Caribbean?
  • Victor Bulmer-Thomas - From Slavery to Services
    https://a.co/d/0aEFPS3o
  • Peter Clegg - The Caribbean Blue Economy
    https://a.co/d/03Kf9gYj
  • Jan Rogozinski - A Brief History of the Caribbean: From the Arawak and Carib to the Present
    https://a.co/d/0fJrVfhK
 

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EPISODE 40:
Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia
(A War for the Crossroads)
  • Gerard Toal - Near Abroad: Putin, the West and the Contest over Ukraine and the Caucasus
    https://a.co/d/05FkCYt0
  • Thomas de Waal - The Caucasus: An Introduction
    https://a.co/d/06QQdvnZ
  • Mikhail Zygar - All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
    https://a.co/d/03wgE0zX
 

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EPISODE 39:
Pakistan’s Two Front War
  • Andrew Small - The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics
    https://a.co/d/0eSeRK4P
  • Ayesha Jalal - Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (4th and 5th editions)
    https://a.co/d/0hGp9aUw
  • Declan Walsh - The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
    https://a.co/d/01MgwWHp
 

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EPISODE 38:
Iraq: What Went Wrong?
  • James Lebovic’s books
    https://www.amazon.com/stores/James-H.-Lebovic/author/B001HCW8HI?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1719510687&sr=1-1&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
  • James Lebovic - Planning to Fail: The US Wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan
    https://a.co/d/07LxbFn0
  • Pierre Razoux - The Iran-Iraq War
    https://a.co/d/0dllThNS
  • Kim Ghattas - Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
    https://a.co/d/05btrE11
 

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EPISODE 37:
 The Geopolitics of Rare Earths
  • Guillaume Pitron - The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies
    https://a.co/d/08vEb9g5
  • Sophia Kalantzakos - China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths
    https://a.co/d/0eU1Tb6g
  • Ryan David Kiggins - The Political Economy of Rare Earth Elements: Rising Powers and Technological Change
    https://a.co/d/0hX4xzil
 

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EPISODE 36:
Lake Chad
(Boko Haram and the French Foreign Legion)
  • Tom Burgess - The Looting Machine
    https://a.co/d/0aYxQigC
  • John Campbell - Nigeria and the Nation-State
    https://a.co/d/0aKBcwKD
  • Usman A. Tar - New Architecture of Regional Security (in Africa): Perspectives (on) Global Terrorism, (Counter-)insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin
    https://a.co/d/02Asnl6I
 

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EPISODE 35:
Ukraine and the War in the East
  • Steven Pifer - The Eagle and the Trident
    https://a.co/d/06JTJ4Rc
  • Stephen F. Cohen - The War with Russia
    https://a.co/d/0glzZ9CL
  • Tim Marshall - Prisoners of Geography
    https://a.co/d/0cRE0WB8
 

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EPISODE 34:
Could China Conquer Taiwan?
  • Eric Gomez - America’s Nuclear Crossroads
    Cato Institute PDF: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pdfs/americas-nuclear-crossroads-full.pdf
  • Sheena Greitens - Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence
    https://a.co/d/0d3bxOqn
  • Robert Kaplan - Asia’s Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific
    https://a.co/d/0hTPx6Ac
 

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EPISODE 33:
The Geopolitics of Tajikistan
  • John Heathershaw - Co-author of Dictators Without Borders (third time mention)
    https://a.co/d/0iDMiIWh
    Mathieu Boulegue - His work on the Chatham House:
    https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/mathieu-boulegue
 

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EPISODE 31:
Nagorno Karabakh II
(A Frozen Conflict Goes Hot)
 

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EPISODE 28:
How to Manipulate an Election
(Trump, Murdoch and Brexit)
  • William Marcelino’s work on the RAND Corporation website:
    https://www.rand.org/about/people/m/marcellino_william.html#selected-work
  • His report into election interference:
    https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA704-2.html
 

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EPISODE 24:
Who is India’s Biggest Strategic Enemy?
  • Swaminathan Aiyar - his website with his books and research papers: swaminomics.org
  • Harsh V. Pant - two books:
    -Indian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World https://a.co/d/00h5gdR0
    -China Ascendant: It’s Rise and Implications https://a.co/d/07Jk92YU
 

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EPISODE 19:
Guyana (Cambridge Analytica and the next Cuban Missile Crisis)
  • Ivelaw Griffith - Challenged Sovereignty
    https://a.co/d/0b2P9ek1
  • Britanny Kaiser - Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and
  • Facebook Broke Democracy, and How It Can Happen Again
    https://a.co/d/0e67XUTW
    Netflix documentary - The Great Hack 
 

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EPISODE 17:
Nagorno-Karabakh (Armenia vs. Azerbaijan)
  • Svante Cornell - The International Politics of the Armenia Azerbaijan Conflict
    https://www.amazon.com/International-Politics-Armenian-Azerbaijani-Conflict-Original/dp/1137600047/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
  • Tyrone Shaw - Bastard Republic: Encounters Along the Tattered Edge of Fallen Empire (second time)
    Bastard Republic: Encounters Along the Tattered Edge of Fallen Empire: Tyrone Anthony Shaw: 9780692826690: Amazon.com: Books
  • Thomas De Waal - Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan through Peace and War
 

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EPISODE 14:
War in the Arctic
(Russia’s Hypersonic Missile Program)
  • Marline Laurelle - Her website with her books: https://www.marlene-laruelle.com
    Her paper at the French Institute of International Relations: https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/notes-de-lifri/russieneivisions/russias-arctic-policy-power-strategy-and-its-limits
    Stephanie Pezard - Her work at the RandCorporation website: https://www.rand.org
    https://www.rand.org/about/people/p/pezard_stephanie.html
  • Paul Josephson - Hero Projects: The Russian Empire and Big Technology from Lenin to Putin
    https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Projects-Russian-Empire-Technology/dp/0197698395/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.tti6PFdMnWIT4t3AbwUcuhW_Me1JdG3TmP5orh4KYmD7IHrCq8ltukNezqPk3L5DVRwk542uMVbyAbrILsB15GF5BKYwr5ILvI3C9oj8BaTeRk241_v0EZDo-i9HdXNq-jd_dZRnQ8xSKXv3LkTUSqeuGFDy9KgEDTWUx0P2A6hANzMP8uqbPjljNAQzO0IXJsuExWM-t5jXJrXMcuQCk0GdfoAV3L5LtH2eQrKEGyY.XSRFDhCZgX-bfaOiyIjp77G0wQcHAtVsy8TXfJq2WF4&dib_tag=se&qid=1718566684&refinements=p_27%3APaul+R.+Josephson&s=books&sr=1-2
  • Rob Huebert - His papers: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/rob-huebert
 

ALL OF OUR BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

A comprehensive list of all the books recommended at the end of each episode of The Red Line, each of which has been immensely helpful during the research and writing of the programme.

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