Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, previously taught at Goldsmiths College and Demos. Currently completing a book entitled Anatomies of Revolution. @lseideas
Do societies ever change radically without war or revolution?
Revolutions are usually defined in hindsight, but I think the thing we have to be careful about is that not everything we look at becomes a revolution. For example, I don’t think the... Читать далее
John Everard, former UK ambassador to Belarus, Uruguay and North Korea, former member of the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on sanctions against North Korea. Author of Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat In North Korea.
There are any number of possible buttons. If, for example, they got into a firefight on the border with South Korea. Remember that we came very close to that in 2015, with the North... Читать далее
Director of International Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute. Author of ‘We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Terrorists‘. @raffpantucci
In the short term, at least, they seem to be on the back foot. The land they control in Syria in Iraq is shrinking – and they controlled, for a time, a territory the size of the United... Читать далее
Author of South China Sea: The Struggle For Power In Asia (Yale 2014), Vietnam: Rising Dragon (Yale 2010), TV journalist, Associate Fellow of @CHAsiaProg @bill_hayton
Has Vietnam recovered from the effects of the war?
It probably hasn’t recovered fully. The effects are still very visible, from the physical shape of many members of the population: so many Vietnamese suffered stunting because of... Читать далее