The Foreign Desk

362 Episodes

1. Explainer 478: Why does Trump care about Bolsonaro?

   Published: 8/6/2025
2. The catastrophe in Gaza and the prospects of a Palestinian state

   Published: 8/2/2025
3. Explainer 478: Why is Islamic State targeting the DRC?

   Published: 7/30/2025
4. Cameroon’s forgotten crisis: Is reconciliation in the Anglo-Franco schism possible?

   Published: 7/26/2025
5. Explainer 477: What is behind the violence in Syria?

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

   Published: 7/22/2025
7. The future of warfare

   Published: 7/19/2025
8. Dynastic democracies

   Published: 7/12/2025
9. Explainer 475: Why has Russia recognised the Taliban?

   Published: 7/9/2025
10. How to topple a tyrant 

    Published: 7/5/2025
11. Explainer 474: Tuvalu’s climate-change escape to Australia

    Published: 7/2/2025
12. Has the ‘12-Day War’ settled anything?

    Published: 6/28/2025
13. Explainer 473: Cambodia, Thailand and phone-call warfare

    Published: 6/25/2025
14. The view of Europe from Globsec Forum 2025

    Published: 6/21/2025
15. Explainer 472: The furious funeral row over Zambia’s former president 

    Published: 6/18/2025
16. ‘The Foreign Desk’ in Odesa: the international ripple effects of war in Ukraine

    Published: 6/14/2025
17. Explainer 471: Who gets to be an Italian citizen? 

    Published: 6/11/2025
18. Odesa, the Black Sea, the front line and Ukraine’s future

    Published: 6/7/2025
19. Explainer 470: The on-again, off-again US-Iran nuclear talks

    Published: 6/4/2025
20. Are journalists safe?

    Published: 5/31/2025