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

• Carlos Lizarralde - Venezuela’s Collaps https://a.co/d/gzzRN0c

• Lars Schoultz - Beneath the United States https://a.co/d/5HqmEkB

• Raúl Gallegos - Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined  Venezuelahttps://a.co/d/0eaBlYZ

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

EPISODE 118:
Wargaming: San Marino vs. Italy​​​

• April Fools Episode

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

EPISODE 100:
Scoring Every Prediction by the Red Line

(100th Episode Special)​​​

• No book recommendations, but a lot of thank you’s to everyone

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

EPISODE 31:

Nagorno Karabakh II

(A Frozen Conflict Goes Hot)

• Laurence Broer’s books: https://www.amazon.com/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ALaurence+Broers&s=relevancerank&text=Laurence+Broers&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1

• His book on the episode subject - Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a rivalry
  https://a.co/d/08UHYykv

 

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

 

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

 

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 

 

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

 

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